David Boring Noel Franklin Katie Fricas there was a dark side

there was a dark side

yet consistently laugh-out-loud funny

and is promptly warned that if he heads back to Earth

5The Riverbed

soaking out the zone

David Boring Noel Franklin Katie Fricas there was a dark sideBy Daniel Clowes. Published by Jonathan Cape. Softcover, 136 pages, B&W, 2002 The hilariously funny graphic novel (Time) from the highly acclaimed author of Ghost World and Patience tells the story of David Boring, a nineteen year old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature, who is about to meet the girl of his dreams. Things go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is