tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post7708487304205335812..comments2024-03-28T21:17:45.398-05:00Comments on A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: Kickstarted! Cerebus Archive Number Two!A Moment Of Cerebushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02718525538144698138noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-77112434649771019642014-10-30T02:51:14.338-05:002014-10-30T02:51:14.338-05:00We promise not to kick your walker out from under ...We promise not to kick your walker out from under you, Tony. hee hee hee!Travis Pelkienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-63210190846281741172014-10-29T12:06:28.510-05:002014-10-29T12:06:28.510-05:00*gulp* I just realized - there are adults - worse ...*gulp* I just realized - there are adults - worse than that, <i>thirty year olds</i> - who weren't born yet when I started reading <i>Cerebus.</i><br /><br />"You damn kids get off my lawn"<br /><br />"You call that music? That's just noise"<br /><br />"Get your government hands off my Medicare"<br /><br />et cetera...Tony Dunlopnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-54676416009447159382014-10-29T03:34:20.742-05:002014-10-29T03:34:20.742-05:00So elitist, Jeff ;)
What if we were only, y'k...So elitist, Jeff ;)<br /><br />What if we were only, y'know, 4 years old when the Wolveroach issues came out? C'mon, man! Cut us young'uns some slack!<br /><br />Or else we won't ever visit you in the home.... ;) <br /><br />Travis Pelkienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-21078548488478101162014-10-27T11:20:05.008-05:002014-10-27T11:20:05.008-05:00Well, good question, Travis. I started with Cerebu...Well, good question, Travis. I started with Cerebus, and then Dave, in the early 80s when my good college friend, Paul Shaffer, said, "you should try this." It was one of the WolveRoach issues.<br /><br />So, personally, I put a first-gen fan/reader as bei gl<br /><br />Sorry, my delete key has decided to stop working.<br /><br />As being anyone who started at ore (sorry, *or*) before the issues where I did.<br /><br />Extra, many extra, points if you were a fan/reader from anywhere below issue #10.<br /><br />Also, super extra points if you were one of the SPACErz in the mid 2000s, when we used to hang out with Dave and, once or twice, Ger.<br /><br />Oh, and if your initials are M.L., well, then, you get a free pass for life.Jeff Seilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15543690118315946039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-31963750576128723202014-10-27T01:53:30.621-05:002014-10-27T01:53:30.621-05:00Well, there might only be the 250-ish of us "...Well, there might only be the 250-ish of us "crazy" (I use that lovingly) enough to shell out an average of $150 for the Portfolio, but an ongoing bimonthly comic would be about 5 bucks an issue 6 times a year -- I think many comics fans could shell out 30 bucks a year -- the issue of course is how many of the comic shop regulars would support it vs could, and Dave ended glamourpuss because there weren't enough for that. <br /><br />Heck, even in the "glory years" of the '80s, Dave and Cerebus were on the outskirts of the typical comics reading community, just because Cerebus is so different. I think glamourpuss was so different from Cerebus that it "did not compute", if you will. <br /><br />Jeff, what do you consider first generation fans? Do you include anyone who got into the book while it was monthly, or do you only consider up to a certain point in the run? I started the regular book with 220, the first issue of Rick's Story (great jumping on point!?), although I'd seen the TMNT and Spawn issues, and the "Night on the Town" story in the Fantagraphics Best Comics of the Decade 1980-1990 book.Travis Pelkienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-84933754785799422852014-10-27T00:25:10.209-05:002014-10-27T00:25:10.209-05:00Not to rain on the parade, but it's just 252 p...Not to rain on the parade, but it's just 252 people--less than half of the number that have signed the petition, less than a quarter of the people who pledged for High Society A/V. 252 very generous people, and the rest of us benefit from the work this will pay for, so thanks very much to all! But still a pretty small number of people--not enough to support an ongoing bimonthly comic featuring new DS art with occasional aardvark cameos. I'd say Dave is still safe in thinking he's on the outskirts of the comics reading community.<br /><br />The real test will be sales on the new editions of the first two trades and whether they go to additional new printings once the longtime fans have bought their copies. (Or paid downloads of same.)Michael Grabowskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-83841084599157772492014-10-26T12:14:26.851-05:002014-10-26T12:14:26.851-05:00The next time Dave describes himself as being in t...The next time Dave describes himself as being in the hinterlands, overlooked, forgotten, etc., I will refer him back to these numbers, charts, graphs, and A/V presentations. <br /><br />The amazing thing, to me, besides the sheer numbers, is how many names on this list are NOT first-generation fans.<br /><br />Start saving up for CANIII, boys and girls; coming your way in, what, February?Jeff Seilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15543690118315946039noreply@blogger.com