This chapter of Ben Katchor explores how the artist emphasizes the visual sense to comment on his preferred urban themes. While many comics are referenced, this chapter includes close readings of “The Kozma Theater” (from Cheap Novelties ), “Jubilation Alley” (from The Beauty Supply District ), “Passing Through” (from Hand-drying in America ), and “The Lambswoll Hotel” (from the Hotel & Farm series). Discussion includes the themes of memory, marxism, and alienation. Some of Katchor’s interests in various formal and aesthetic effects of comics art are also explored: word balloons, blending of present and past, off-panel space, shift of visual perspective and more.