It is awesome. The artist was a big fan of the old choose-your-own-adventure books, and decided he wanted to do the same thing but in graphic novel form. So he wrote his own computer algorithm to plot out the various story threads!
And mechanically, the book is ingeniously designed, with these branching pipes you follow to different page tabs (all the pages have these tabs sticking out at different points) to continue with the currently chosen storyline. And there are things like coin flips, which involve you choosing one of two coin faces and then following a pipe through a spaghetti pile so you don't know which way you will come out of it until you trace it all the way with your finger.
And it's pretty good cartoon artwork and some amusing crap happens. I stumbled across a mad scientist who asked me if I wanted to play with a time machine, a memory swapper or a doomsday device. Naturally, I chose the doomsday device. Next time I'm thinking time machine! Ha ha ha!
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