Just when we thought we had seen every form of publicity possible for Tao Lin‘s Richard Yates (a parodic cover story, an 11,810-word interview, a slideshow biography, an emo song), genius indie cartoonist James Kochalka knocked our socks off with this comic “review” of Richard Yates:

“It’s like a subtle, subtle atom bomb.” Pull-quotes don’t get much better than that! Check out more of Kochalka‘s joyfully twisted brilliance at American Elf.