When his mother disappears, Shay is thrust into a secret world of monsters as he takes her place as guardian of a subterranean kingdom and struggles to maintain his normal life while he searches for his mother and trains to become a warrior.

"Twenty years in the making, Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism. Legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth lovingly shows the rituals, hopes, and delusions of a middle-class that has long ceased to exist in North America--garrulous men in wool suits extolling the virtues of the wares to taciturn shopkeepers with an eye on the door. Much like the myth of an ever-growing economy, the Clyde Fans family unit is a fraud--the...