Writer: W. Maxwell Prince Artists: Various Image Comics, 2021 IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE reading any one of the six issues of HAHA SAD CLOWN STORIES singly as originally published, and still manage to read the rest. One shot and a hapless reader is likely to drift off, only glimpses seen since: transformed, turned to something else, or somewhere else entirely. To stay on course, get the collected stories by writer W. Maxwell Prince and various collaborating artists, and brace for a gentle, maniacal feast of fun, haha, from the clown’s point of view. In these six stories, illustrated in succession by collaborating artists Vanesa del Rey, Zoe Thorogood, Roger Langridge, Patrick Horvath, Gabriel Hernández Walta, and Martín Morazzo, the motion of the twisting plots and art carry you unexpectedly somewhere beyond the laughable, beyond the grimaceable, something you might have wanted to disown if it had not already reached out