In Mister Wonderful, a new book from Daniel Clowes originally serialized in the New York Times, Marshall, divorced and unemployed, sits alone in a café waiting for Natalie, his blind date. Marshall has resigned himself to a lonely, pathetic existence when Natalie finally arrives an hour late. She turns out to be young, beautiful and intelligent. Yet, the date goes anything but smoothly as the two are repeatedly forced into awkward and emotionally charged situations. Mister Wonderful will be released by Pantheon on April 12.