Working in the distinguished lineage that goes something like this --  Jeff Jones, Baron Storey, Bill Seinkeiwicz, Kent Williams, Ho Che Anderson, David Mack, David Cho, et al -- Wilfred Santiago brings his own computer savvy sensibility along with a studied casualness towards integrating photographs into his highly stylized artwork, and so, seemingly off-handedly, brings in issues of representation into play, thereby adding another layer to this already richly textured tale of life here in these United States, as experienced by young lovers grappling with our tumultuous times.  Yes, it's multi-culti, but it's anything but politically correct.  Most of all, it strives to be real, and true to it's characters' lives. Fantagraphics Books • 192 pages • two-color with full gray-scale