“Confessions” returns to the theme of the dangerous fragility of crushed American masculinity, the show’s grandest concern.
These days, any comic by Clowes or Seth unmistakably belongs to each man—in the style of their lines, the speech of their characters, and the mood of their fictional worlds.
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