Mondays!
There are people who enjoy this:
the poor bastards...
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Over on the Kickstarter, Dave offered up prototypes of the '82 Tour Book. He had six of them (this should set off alarm bells for anybody who's been paying attention to the '82 debacle), three of version "A", and three of version "B" (seriously, five alarm "what the f*ck?!?" bells.) They all sold in less than five minutes...
Now, Birdsong (who we love dearly, don't take this as an attack on him, he's just one man doing the Herculean job of trying to A: make Dave money by B: doing what Dave wants while C: being constrained by Reality and How Things Actually WORK.), who DOESN'T have physical copies of the '82 Tour Book, and only sees what I show you guys 'round 'ere, he thought this was six copies of the 232 page big ol' Monster that Dave's been discussing at the payment of you fine people.
Now, Birdsong (who we love dearly, don't take this as an attack on him, he's just one man doing the Herculean job of trying to A: make Dave money by B: doing what Dave wants while C: being constrained by Reality and How Things Actually WORK.), who DOESN'T have physical copies of the '82 Tour Book, and only sees what I show you guys 'round 'ere, he thought this was six copies of the 232 page big ol' Monster that Dave's been discussing at the payment of you fine people.
It was/is not.
It's three copies of the "A" prototype and three of the "B" prototype.
This is the 52 page "cheaper" version that the Waverly Press was going to offer on their planned Kickstarter as a more reasonably priced option for the "budget" consumer.
As I (thought I) explained, the differences between the "A" prototype and the "B" prototype are:
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| Different logos in the corner box. "A" has a diamond, "B" has an upside down Marvel M as a Waverly W. And if you "get" what this is referencing/parodying, you need to make an appointment for a colonoscopy... |
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| The back covers are different. "A" has the mock-up of the Tour poster, "B" has the actual Tour poster. |
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| "A" is laid out to look like a mock-up of Dave's Tour Diary (bottom), "B" is a more polished look (top). |
Both have Deni's introduction, both have Dave's Tour Diary, both have a selection of Deni's Tour photographs.
NEITHER is: 232 pages long; has vintage 1982 interviews; has text from Tour associated individuals like Bill Sienkiewicz, Maggie Thompson, Chuck Rozanski, and Diana Schutz; and other fun stuff that Dave's gonna take a hatchet to in his version... (do I sound bitter? I'm not bitter. YOU'RE bitter.) AND there's no way on God's green Earth that Dave got six copies of it...
Sorry.
Any confusion is entirely the fault of... (gee, who can we pin this on? I mean I'M not taking the fall on this one... Jen? Can we blame Jen? She's been busy and therefore distracted... Mags? ALWAYS a good scapegoat in Mags. She has so much goodwill built up in Cerebus fandom I think she could kill a guy and be immediately forgiven... Hobbs? Nobody's heard from Hobbs in months... Sean? He's remastering Latter Days as we speak, PLUS he's working on Tyrant and that Consigned book. We CAN'T pin this on Sean... Rolly? Rolly's too pure to be the fall guy... We're not blaming Birdsong, it's not his fault that he didn't get a good description of what was on offer... I know! It's ALL) Jeff Seiler fault!
Fuckin' Seiler...
Ahem:
Sorry for the confusion, if you pledged for one of these and want it removed, message Birdsong on the Kickstarter...
Since we talkin' Kickstarters:
Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters has a new Comicverse issue on Kickstarter, with a variant cover from OTHER Friend to the Blog, James Banderas-Smith.
And I'm making the attempt to get the Pud's Tavern Logo on the kid's Dance team's merch, win fun prizes!
Dave haD things on Heritage. These were FROM the Cerebus Archive, and Dave (eventually) gets ALL the money (minus the fees and whatnot. Plus he won't believe it until the money crosses his hand... *NOT* my first "Dave waiting to be paid" rodeo...):
Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Envy plate ORIGINAL Art Sold for $11,000 ($13,750 with Buyers Premium)
Cerebus Six Deadly Sins Portfolio Anger plate ORIGINAL Art Sold for $16,000 ($20,000 with Buyer's Premium)
Cerebus #239 19 pages of Original Art Sold for $26,000 ($32,500 with the BP)
So I guess I can ask him for that three hundred bucks he owes me for pen nibs, nu?
Next Time: I explain how JEN fucked up...
5 comments:
No need to message anyone. If someone who grabbed one doesn't want it, just adjust the pledge again and remove it.
I just updated the Kickstarter backers, thank you Matt. If you bought it and would like to drop it just click the 'Manage Your Pledge' button and adjust accordingly. At least one book has come back and is available. After seeing this update I predict they will all sell anyway. I do apologize for all the confusion.
I ended up snagging one after someone else must have dropped it but before I read the follow up post. I’ll probably keep it, but I also probably have to adjust my pledge before the - ahem - last day anyway when I recheck my finances lol.
What was weird was that I’d gone in to adjust from my initial pledge and the total went lower before I made any adjustments. I wasn’t sure what was going on the other day when the tracing papers came up so I didn’t get the $10 Cerebus one but this time I changed my total. The amount seemed to be another Swords of CIH? worth so I’m not sure if I’d double tapped that somehow, unless Birdsong changed some amounts after I first pledged? KS can be weird sometimes.
Sure Blame the Dead Guy.
Does the 232 page book exist? If the unicorn is real, can I place a bid?
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