Comedy expert Del Close, mentor to every person from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, lays out to write his autobiography for D.C. Comics. As he leads us with sewage systems, mental wards, and his peculiar skill for making everybody well-known yet himself, Close becomes a personification of the imaginative impulse itself. He's a muse with BO and also unclean needles, using transcendence regardless of (or as a result of) the route of wreck behind him.