Hi, Everybody!
The Jaka's Story remaster has a Starcode! APR191258 First month orders will be signed and numbered! "However many orders there are in the next 3 weeks, that's how many signed copies there will be. Diamond will order over the initial orders by some other amount, and those will become inventory books available after the initial order...but they won't be signed." [Thanks again, Sean!-Matt]
Greg Hyland is Kickstartering the second volume of the Monster Atlas, and if he gets another fifteen hundred and fifty-eight bucks [Erk! I'm using the AMERICAN figures. in CANADIAN, he needs another 674 bucks CAD-Matt], it'll have Gerhard art like the first volume. It'll look a little something like this.
There's more auctions up at ComicsLink (nine days left). And last week's update has a special AMOC auction. (Seiler's winning at $100 US.)
If you're waiting for a Indiegogo live for the Postcard Kickstarter, like the one for the birthday card Kickstarter, I don't know if there will be one.
The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.
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Anyway, the solicitations for LGBTQetc. PEOPLE No.1 and the REMASTERED JAKA'S STORY came out, and well...
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| It didn't go well... |
First let's look at the solicit, and see if we can see where things went..."wrong?"?
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In 1963, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced THE X-MEN #1, and began a discussion about the blatant misogyny which results from bringing a teenage girl into an all-boys school, from the male members sexually objectifying Jean Grey when she first arrives (“WOW! She’s a real living doll!” “A Redhead! Look at that face…and the rest of her!”), to Hank McCoy committing sexual violence by kissing her on the cheek WITHOUT her consent, to voyeurism as she tries on her new costume and they all watch from around the corner.
This June, Aardvark-Vanaheim is proud to continue the dialogue with the 21st Century’s version of “The Strangest Heroes Of All” in the latest CEREBUS IN HELL? one-shot:
LGBTQetc. PEOPLE No.1!
Diamond Order Code
APR191257 (June, 2019)
LGBTQetc. PEOPLE No.1
(W) Dave Sim
(A) Dave Sim Gustav Dore
(CA) - Benjamin Hobbs parody of Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers' X-MEN No.1 cover (1963)
NOW WITH NO @#$%ING REPRINTS! EPIC-LENGTH ALL-IN-ONE 24-PAGE ISSUE!! MEET THE INFERNAL REALMS' MOST INCLUSIVE SUPER GROUP! LESBIANA HOMBRE™! Gay Chicano Female trapped inside the White Masculine body she never made! REDWOOD CITY™! He may look like a tree, but he’s actually a mid-sized metropolitan California tourist destination (and excretes his own pine cones!) BORDERLINE BOBBIEY™! Amazingly, he changes gender identity every time you refer to her by a different pronoun! Just watch him! You go, girl! BELVEDERE™! Tired of being a stallion centaur Belvedere demands her right to give birth as a broodmare! "No WOMB! No PEACE!” Watch, as the STRANGEST HEROES AND FEMALE HEROES OF ALL go head-to-head with Cerebus! Can the aardvark and his WAVERY HOMOPHOBIA LINES hold up against a SUPREME COURT DECISION!? Features the hit song "Don't Pine for your cone, Redwood City!" ALSO! CEREBUS GOES ON STRIKE!
B&W 24 pages………………………………………$4.00
But wait, there's more!
A-V is proud to present, at long last, Jaka's Story the Remastered Edition, fully-restored page-by-page from the original art boards. To celebrate this event, this edition will be signed-and-numbered by writer/cartoonist Dave Sim (limited to the amount of copies of the initial Diamond order).
Jaka's Story, the fifth volume of the CEREBUS series, represents a point of departure for the series, focusing as it does on a small cast of characters, living out their lives in orbital, Thoreau-like “quiet desperation”, drawn ever inward, until at last, they inevitably collide. It is a book of unparalleled intimacy and unrelentingly-detailed observation, combining Sim's unerring eye for gesture and small-scale conflict with Gerhard's groundbreaking background art and environmental design. The two artists create here a look unprecedented in the comics medium—as if the main characters were drawn by Don Bluth and Jaime Hernandez, costumed by Aubrey Beardsley, set-dressed by William Hogarth, and then rendered by Franklin Booth and Barry Windsor-Smith. In the now-decades-old “Comics as Art” discussion, Jaka's Story is arguably a long-misplaced key book. Sim takes his lifelong interests in art, desire, and power, and throws them into a mix spiced with Oscar Wilde (and a dash of Love and Rockets.) Because of its comparatively small-scale and self-contained nature, this book is recommended as a fine entry point to the CEREBUS series in general, especially for the lit-comic reader.
This new edition, painstakingly restored and printed on acid-free paper with a durable sewn binding, reveals astounding detail never before present outside of the original art itself. The carefully-textured, detail-rich art is now on full display for the first time, including delicate line work, slashing brush lines and organic texture, and some of the most sophisticated pen-and-ink rendering of the second half of the twentieth century. This volume also includes eight brand-new pages of extras, including a 6,000-word essay by restorer and critic Sean Michael Robinson, discussing the background and “secret origins” of the book, providing historical context for a whole new generation of readers.
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Ya know, neat. But apparently...
Wherein Rich Johnston quotes people from
the Twitters, where (apparently, I don't know as I'm "off"
the Twitters for the next several years,) people are losing their shit over this.
Well, the Cerebus in Hell? Braintrust (Your pal and mine: Sean Micheal Robinson, Superman's Frenemy (and known Collaborator): David Birdsong, Heir to the Throne: Eddie Khanna, "Gee I should get around to giving him a funny title one of these days": Benjamin Hobbs, and Me (Yeah, I don't know whose brilliant idea to include me in a "BRAINtrust" it was either...) got to discussing it, and it turns out Dave Sim DIDN'T WRITE THE PROMO IMAGE OR THE PROMO TEXT. The text was written by Heir to the Throne: Eddie Khanna. Basically, this bit:
In 1963, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced THE X-MEN #1, and began a discussion about the blatant misogyny which results from bringing a teenage girl into an all-boys school, from the male members sexually objectifying Jean Grey when she first arrives (“WOW! She’s a real living doll!” “A Redhead! Look at that face…and the rest of her!”), to Hank McCoy committing sexual violence by kissing her on the cheek WITHOUT her consent, to voyeurism as she tries on her new costume and they all watch from around the corner.
This June, Aardvark-Vanaheim is proud to continue the dialogue with the 21st Century’s version of “The Strangest Heroes Of All” in the latest CEREBUS IN HELL? one-shot: LGBTQetc. PEOPLE No.1!
That's all Eddie. He even dropped by Bleeding Cool, to let them know:
Hi there.
Dave actually didn’t have anything to do with the promo piece and text. I wrote the part about the comparison with X-Men #1, and someone else did the promo image and dialogue (although the solicitation text was written by Dave). So if anyone is offended by that part of it, it’s not Dave Sim you should be directing your anger at. That being said, perhaps wait until the issue comes out before judging it? Either way, thanks for the publicity.
The promo image and dialogue was (unless I'm mistaken,) by Superman's Frenemy (and KNOWN COLLABORATOR!!!): David Birdsong.
Anywho, I was at work when this all started rolling, so I said I'd fax Dave and let him know what's up later tonight, but Heir to the Throne: Eddie Khanna sent over a fax, and got a response:
Which is why I say:
I got a feeling it's gonna be another VERY interesting Please Hold on Thursday...
Next Time: Dave gives up on this "God" stuff and starts writing Feminist Poetry... Nah, I'm kidding, more Genesis Question commentary...
