Ok, admit it -- you find it hard to believe that anyone with the name Rocco Versaci would be a PhD holding professor of of English who specializes in comics; but there you have it and here's his book.  This Book Contains Graphic Language is a thoroughly engaging 240 page account of the authors's life long (but for one brief hiatus) involvement with reading comics and how it merged with his studies in literature which is part memoir, part apologia, part polemic and part epistemological exegesis that that taken together makes for an eminently readable work that anyone who shares his interests will find hard to put down.  Ranging from Classics Illustrated to American Splendor to EC comics to Eightball and Love and Rockets and much in between, Versaci's enthusiasm for his subject is infectious and will have you pulling out old favorites for a second look as well as heading down to your friendly neghborhood comics retailer to get your hands on some new works with which to expand your horizons.