STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE: THE SECRET ORIGIN OF CEREBUS IN HELL? PART FOUR

Hi, Everybody!

Continuing from last Saturday,

STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE: THE SECRET ORIGIN OF CEREBUS IN HELL? PART FOUR

The CIH? book introduction you won't get in SWORDS OF CEREBUS IN HELL? because the books are exactly 112 pages long if we just reprint the issues so the introduction would have to be 8 pages to make another signature. Or maybe a 4-page intro and 4 pages headlined "AUTOGRAPHS". Hmm.

Dave Sim: The concept behind CEREBUS IN HELL? was that the free daily online comic strips would drive traffic to the A MOMENT OF CEREBUS website and serve to promote all of Aardvark-Vanaheim's publications. Within a week it had failed at that task spectacularly. No one commented on any of the strips, although Jeff Seiler did fill the Comments section with forensic grammarian corrections (a linchpin of riotously funny comedy wherever it occurs in our world). We changed CEREBUS IN HELL? into a comic book and never looked back. Because hindsight is 2020 and who wants to relive 2020?

Despite everyone's best efforts in the comic-book field to the contrary, a new volume of SWORDS OF CEREBUS IN HELL? will be published on a monthly basis throughout 2021and into 2022. In fact VOLUME ONE, reprinting the original four-issue mini-series, may be in stores even as you're reading this. Advertising or content? At A MOMENT OF CEREBUS it's a distinction without a difference when Dave Sim is in da house.

Well thanks Dave.

Now we all know why Cerebus in Hell? exists.

(Although I could have SWORN CiH? (the daily strip) was supposed to drive traffic to cerebusdownloads.com... I'd've bet your left eyeteeth...)

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In all of yesterday's Kickstarter Updating, I didn't mention Hobbs Swords of Cerebus in Hell? hardcovers. Mainly because there wasn't anything yesterday...

But tomorrow is another day. And since today is yesterday's tomorrow:

The trading cards arrived yesterday!

The Jingles card looked a LITTLE dark:

After discussing this issue with the brilliant Sean Robinson, I adjusted the image on the digital file so the line art will have less dot gain. I also increased the saturation of the color:

The left is the original file, the right is the new file.

I sent the files off to the printer last night, so the new card should be here soon!

The bookplates are still in transit.

As soon as the bookplates and the Reprint Jingles card arrive, I'll begin fulfillment!

Also, there are still a few surveys that have yet to be filled out, if you haven't filled yours out yet, please take a minute to do so! It will make fulfillment go easier and would be greatly appreciated!

-Benjamin

So git yer dang surveys in! Ya ain't gonna git yer re-wareds if'n ya don't fill out yer surveys. How many dang KickyStarts are we on now? Ya should know this...

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Speaking of the KickyStarters...

Friend to the Blog Steve Peters sure would appreciate your support with his latest.

Reason for the Blog Dave Sim sure appreciates all the support he's gotten for HIS latest.

And Sean and Carson are doing a thing next Friday...WITH EDDIE CAMPBELL!!!

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Crisis In Infinite Quarantine:

Swords of Cerebus in Hell? Volume 5

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