This is a five-star book, of course. Tales From Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan's follow-up to the incredible wordless story The Arrival, is a different being, but no less surreal, bizarre, funny, and haunting. In many ways, it defies description, and I'm not sure where is the best place to shelve it or who is the target audience, but I think it should be put on display and talked up to those who enjoy something completely different. Although these are short vignettes, stories, and poems, sometimes told via sequential pictures and sometimes illustrated by pictures, the overall feeling of "what's going on here?" made me want to start reading it again the minute I finished. Susan said it best: This book is to fiction what The Mysteries of Harris Burdick is to illustration. And what Mr. Tan can do with lighting, in any medium, makes me green with envy and admiration.