As he disappears, we are left with thrilling fragments of a new Epps: this time, an embittered, intentionally unfashionable, world-weary misanthrope (recycling successful motifs from teh past (jazz, alcoholism)). This will lead of course to crippling loneliness which in turn will lead to a brief marriage to a manic depressive sculptress who will further send our boy careening like a pinball toward yet another future of seemingly unlimited possibilities…
pg 94 of daniel clowes’ Caricature