Pham presents his story in a patterned series of segments that alternate between the present and two themed flashbacks, one in America and the other in Japan. The present-day narrative is coloured in orange, the American flashback in periwinkle, and the Japanese flashback in green. The way Pham alternates between eras in Scott’s life gives the most time to the present and splits evenly between his two pasts.

And beyond just his conscious staggering of narrative streams, Pham uses a technique whereby the length of each segment telescopes in ever-diminishing increments so that, finally, Pham is spending only a single panel in any given story period.

Generally, Pham uses episodes from Scott’s past to inform our immediate reading of the wrestler’s present; but from the included image you can see that he ends the book in a longer segment from Scott’s past in Japan. It’s a surprising conclusion, but effective: using a moment from Scott’s past not only to guide our reading of Scott’s present but of Pham’s book as a whole.