Three more characters from an Unfolded Earth, each brought to us in a set of discourses with the unseen interviewer. As well as creating seamless sequential moments and high-definition visual coherence, the strips feature matters of personal histories and meta-narratives, labour relations and linguistics. Merlin-Goodbrey has crafted a collection of sociological case studies. "The Man Who Fell To Earth" is poeti8cal also, comics poems of the sort that sneaks up on you and doesnt tell you its a poem. It just comes on all manner-of-factly and does beautiful things. "She could smell tomorrow" is probably one of hte most modest, coy and optimistic things Merlin-Goodbrey has done so far. It seems tame initially, ends the collection with the best synopsis and final line. Time will tell on "She could smell tomorrow".

"The Girl Who Talked" is 32 pages, A5, available for £2 at UK expos handling, although no longer available online. (If you want a mail order copy I suggest dropping Daniel a note at merlin @ e-merl.com to see if there are any left in stock. The whole collection is reprinted within the pages of The Last Sane Cowboy & Other Stories. At $12.95 its a five-book collection. Its also likely to be one of the top ten best comic books this year, and next year, period. Its available from http://www.e-merl.com/shop.htm