In his conclusion to the "Complete World Knowledge" trilogy, Hodgman creates a work of dark comedy of the highest order. Mixed in among Hodgman's whimsical made-up history is a story of the end of the world that is (surprisingly) genuinely moving, while also managing to be laugh-out-loud funny every other page or so. (And these are not large pages.)

Hodgman's debt to post-apocalyptic literature generally (and Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," which he calls out in the book and has mentioned in interviews) is evident throughout. Fans of the genre will find much to appreciate here. This is a worthy conclusion to one of the most impressive works of comedy in recent memory.