On the comics side, I would recommend "MiracleMan". You can still find book four (by Neil Gaiman) in used comics sections, and it stands very well on its own.
On the "funnies" side, I have just one addition: Pogo.
That's interesting. My wife and I really liked it, liked it enough to rent it twice, even though neither of us is much of a Mamet fan.
It sounds like we were assuming a slightly different premise when we watched it, which made it really enjoyable for us. We were assuming that whatever "the process" was, it was so unbelievably valuable that even an extremely intricate con, with intense psychological profiling of the victim, would have been cost-effective. And so, anytime the victim did something that seemed random, or that played into their hands, they either 1) knew, based on his personality, exactly how he would act, or 2) had backup plans to handle that contingency.
From that perspective, it became a fun "conspiracy theory" exercise. ("Hey, that guy just made a casual, off-hand comment that furthered the con! He must be in on it!")
On the comics side, I would recommend "MiracleMan". You can still find book four (by Neil Gaiman) in used comics sections, and it stands very well on its own.
On the "funnies" side, I have just one addition: Pogo.
That's interesting. My wife and I really liked it, liked it enough to rent it twice, even though neither of us is much of a Mamet fan.
It sounds like we were assuming a slightly different premise when we watched it, which made it really enjoyable for us. We were assuming that whatever "the process" was, it was so unbelievably valuable that even an extremely intricate con, with intense psychological profiling of the victim, would have been cost-effective. And so, anytime the victim did something that seemed random, or that played into their hands, they either 1) knew, based on his personality, exactly how he would act, or 2) had backup plans to handle that contingency.
From that perspective, it became a fun "conspiracy theory" exercise. ("Hey, that guy just made a casual, off-hand comment that furthered the con! He must be in on it!")
YMMV, of course.