A Life Force #[nn]

Will Eisner's graphic novel *A Life Force* wears its existential weight right on the cover: an aged man presses his weathered face and gnarled hands flat to the floor, eye-to-eye with a cockroach, as a speech bubble poses the quietly devastating question — "So?? Mister Cockroach, what are YOU struggling for?? To maybe stay alive a few days more?" The stark two-color composition, rendered in Eisner's deeply expressive linework, frames survival itself as the central tension before you've turned a single page. This 2006 W. W. Norton edition is a fine way to experience one of comics' most humanistic storytellers working at full emotional depth.