Why Don't You Love Me? Softcover SIGNED & SKETCHED
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"What a clever and uncompromising comic Paul B. Rainey has created."—Rachel Cooke, The Guardian
"Claire and Mark are living in the quiet resignation of their crumbling marriage — rendered in Rainey’s clean, sparse lines — when the announcement of an imminent nuclear war spurs them to urgently reimagine their lives."—New York Times
"Why Don't You Love Me? [is] irrefutably the best graphic novel I’ve read this year."—The Irish Times
"Rainey’s cramped and cluttered visual style is the perfect complement to a strange domestic tale of social order breaking down into isolation and chaos."—Toronto Star
"A remarkable graphic novel, which balances pathos, cruelty, realism and science fiction in an astonishing way."—The Comics Journal
"[A] sly dark comedy with an eerie sci-fi twist... This one’s for curious indie-comics readers who enjoy being surprised."—Publishers Weekly
"The first must-read graphic novel of 2023... Rainey is a seasoned cartoonist, and this book feels like — again, as Gaiman points out — a true masterwork, the carefully considered opus of someone who has spent years working within the medium and wants to push what it’s capable of."—Comics Beat
"Rainey may be working in the comics form, but he leaves readers with the impression that they've just consumed a full-blown novel set in an adrift couple's world(s)."—Shelf Awareness
"The unsuspecting reader’s eventual realization of Rainey’s oh-so clever authorial manipulation is just too delightful to spoil. For maximum satisfaction, audiences need to personally discover Rainey’s graphic ruses—unfiltered and unbiased."—Booklist
"[Why Don't You Love Me? is a] story about relationships, the pressures of child rearing, and the unexpected disruptions of internal and external forces in our topsy turvy lives."—Graphic Medicine
"Rainey has fashioned a startling narrative that speaks strangely to recent pandemic experiences of isolation and parenting young children... [The] mysteries of love, the unpredictability of the world and the promise of redemption are all at play."—The Tyee
"Why Don't You Love Me? imagines a relatable scenario turning on the everyday fears of many readers, and provides us an opportunity to consider the choices we've made, while still allowing us to... have a much-needed laugh."—ComicBook.Com
"There’s a fascinating story here about the nature of identity and the role that chance plays in our relationships."—Geek Dads
"In Why Don’t You Love Me?, Paul Rainey reminds us that even during the unimaginable, we can still grab hold of the reins."—White Wall Review
"[Rainey] wants readers to ask large questions about existence and the world."—Solrad
"A powerful, haunting work from an artist at the top of his game."—Lindsay Pereira, Broken Frontier
"Movingly insightful and brave, Rainey’s writing is engrossing."—Steven Heller, PRINT Magazine
"What begins as black absurdist comedy becomes an allegory for depression and mental illness, and then, heartwarmingly [a] cross-timeline love story."—The Telegraph