The only book I had time to even start from the “best related work” category. The book is an autobiography by J. Michael Straczynski, the genius behind Babylon 5, one of my favorite TV-series ever. As I haven’t been reading comics, I wasn’t aware of the career he has had on that front, and most of the other parts of his post-Babylon career were pretty unfamiliar to me, too. A major part of the book is taken up by his childhood - and what a childhood he had! Whenever you thought things couldn’t get worse, they always did. But that is what one gets with a narcissistic, alcoholic, and abusive father, a true nazi, who kept a real uniform as a memento of the happy days of killing Jewish people during the Second World War on the eastern front. The mother tried committing suicide several times and was committed for long periods. That didn’t make for a very enjoyable reading; it was pretty interesting though, and it also explained why Michael escaped to imaginary worlds as a child first and an adolescent later. An interesting book, but the proportion between the author's early life and, later, his “famous” life could have benefited from leaning slightly more towards the latter part. 480 pp.
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