Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. This first volume of Mome features the following: John Pham's (Epoxy) 221 Sycamore Ave., Paul Hornschemeier (Mother Come Home and Forlorn Funnies) contributes a six-part graphic novella titled Life with Mr. Dangerous, Anders Nilsen's The Beast is a full-color, 12-page absurdist monologue by a single character on the push-and-pull of art and politics, Jeffrey Brown contributes an autobiographical piece, David Heatley contributes the first of a series of fictional stories revolving around a cast of characters in a town called a Overpeck (also the name of the strip) that follows a bizarre dream logic, Andrice Arp adapts a Japanese fairy tale called Jewels of the Sea, Kurt Wolfgang examines death, Gabrielle Bell examines the existentialism of the dot-com boom, Jonathan Bennett dances with the Ventures, and Sophie Crumb (Belly Button Comix) delivers a piece of comics biography. With cartoons by Martin Cendreda.