This is a comic that transports you to a very singular and spectacularly-realized place and time and holds you fast to the point where you quite literally don't want to leave. I felt absolutely privileged to pay a return visit to Lafler's world, and envious of those who will be having the pleasure of experiencing it for the first time. Now more than ever, this stands out as one more the most purely enjoyable comics that I've ever read in my life.

• Ryan Carey, Four Color Apocalypse

You'll see that jazz motif bebop around. You'll see some hard luck hound dogs-or bugs. And you'll definitely see a lot of that joie de vivre thing we all want some of. You find it all wrapped in a bow in Lafler's BugHouse, albeit tinged with the harsh realities of life in the big city.

• Henry Chamberlain, Comics Grinder