Wow. I really liked this novel. A lot. It's about a nerdy high schooler that likes to doodle, or draw, to you lay people out there. 
 He makes friends with kind of the uber-nerd, the kid that the normal nerds mostly avoid, and finds out that this kid, he's totally not like other nerds, he's... well, different. 
 And they begin work on their epic, multi-novel/movie trilogy/episodic televsion series with additional comics/graphic novels and other transmedia materials and develop a friendship like you only can have when you're that age. 
 Then, shit starts getting weird. A girl shows up, as do men in suits... 
 Sometimes, I get swept up in a story because of its epic scope, or it's amazing cleverness in plotting. Here though, it's all about the characters. I was, quite briefly, convinced that this was ME and I was back in high school and I was experiencing all these things, not Darren, the protaganist. 
 I can see where this might not be the Platonic ideal of the perfect book, but damn. It really worked on me. Even when things got really weird at the end, I was all in for this, and turned pages faster and faster as things wrapped up. 
 It makes me sad that this book is over. What else has this guy written? I'm a huge fan.