I read the whole thing in one sitting. It was captivating and haunting and strange. Burns takes readers on a stomach churning ride through one man's justification for past behavior. There is a plot twist dangled in front of you face throughout parts 1 & 2 that isn't as well resolved in part 3 as it could be but the journey to that ending is still so beautiful and disorienting that passing on this book is doing yourself a disservice.

The plot is a temporal and otherworldly fever dream as our reality and the book's surreal, alien world match and predict each other's outcome with sickly foreshadowing throughout. Burns leaves a lot for the reader to infer and doesn't spell out every single story beat and that makes Last Look a joy to return to. After finishing the book in one fevered rush I returned to it the next night and reread certain scenes picking up on hints and things that seemed obvious now knowing what happens in the end.

Charles Burns Last Look trilogy is a truly mind-bending and challenging work of fiction and a masterpiece of the graphic novel form on par with the work of Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes. Do yourself a favor and check it out.