Worn Tuff Elbow is a fun visit to the strange world of Marc Bell, a comics artist who regularly delivers idiosyncratic worlds full of odd characters, beautifully detailed black-and-white panels, and colloquial language that often serves to build story structure (rather than serving merely as dialog). What is perhaps most interesting about Bell's achievement is the lack of cynicism or darkness in these tales; many of Bell's peers end up leaning on violence, despair or general grimness in order to deliver comics art of equal inventiveness. There's nothing schmaltzy about Bell's work, but at the same time he strikes a unique note of whimsy that makes his work enjoyable and very memorable. ( )