Critical Perspective: Writing for Wilson Quarterly, Ken Chen describes the relationship of graphic fiction to the broader literary canon in this way: "Because comics traditionally have been a pulp medium, they've been able to portray the world with a liberating strangeness, unconstrained by taste or codified literary standards.:" In what sense do the graphic stories in this sampler "portray the world with a liberating strangeness"? Do these stories break any literary rules?