An original comic meditation on a universal human experience: crushing, abject, humiliating defear. Here is a book that will allow you to laugh at yourself, and more importantly, laugh at other people. It happily explores the many fascinating facets of failure, and writes about them in unique if sometimes twisted ways. From tragically definct product failures to the horrifying ritual of the National Spelling Bee, and from the human quest for perfection in a flawed world to the tale of Elisha Gray who due to the unfortunate lateness of the US Patent Office, lost fame and riches to Alexander Graham Bell in the annals of Telephone History...