RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Seriously, I have been looking for this for years. YEARS. Everytime i go past a comic shop, i go in, and ask if they’ve got this. or any new Evan Dorkin. They never have either. And mostly they have never heard of either. Comic shops seem to mainly sell really expensive toys these days anyway. One of my ambitions as a kid was to have my own shop, that sold comics and records and huge goggles. I figured I could hang out all day reading comics and smoking fags and chatting up hot geek chicks. Maybe I’d live upstars, and have a studio up there or something.
One day, maybe. Right now I think there might be few dumber ideas than opening a comic shop in today’s economic climate. Maybe joining the BNP (and asking for “absolute confidentiality”), or becoming President. Or a rapper. Loffaloffagus. Anyway – fie on all those useless comic shop dorks! Where they failed, my pal Colin has succeeded, and I now have a copy of Peter Bagge’s The Megalomaniacal Spider-Man (yeah it’s digital, but sheeet, at least i can read the thing!). Let us party like it weas 2099 and we were all Andrew WK!
Awooga!
Yes. And while the Yousendit link lasts, you should all get it too. It is, after all, a comic book by Peter Bagge about Spider-Man. As if it’s not amazing! Huzzah! Let’s all call Colin a G! G! G! G!
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Tags: comic, comic shops are crap, Download, hurrah!, peter bagge, spider man, the megalomaniacal spider-man
Thank you indeed, a much welcomed distraction from my pre-job-interview worries.
The shop sounds like a great idea, I always find comic shops slightly intimidating, they always summon past memories of venturing into a Games Workshop, and being pounced on by an over enthusiastic employee who wanted me to join in on an excessively complicated game involving 90 different varieties of dice (or should that be die?).
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November 20th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I’ll ask me lil brother, he was into that shit!
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November 20th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Ps – good luck!
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November 20th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
you’re officially allowed since a few years back to say dice if you mean one. Take that, nerds! Die only ever meant one I think.
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November 20th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Excellent, dice all around then.
I’ve made myself a playlist to listen to on my way to the interview, it includes ‘So!’ and ‘Oh! What A Glorious Thing’, I’ve also thrown in ‘The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived’ by Weezer, that should hopefully set me up in a good mood for the rest of the day.
Did you get my email about the faces thing? Don’t worry if you haven’t got time for it, I know you’re a busy chap.
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November 20th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Always glad to be of cervix. I have more Bagge rarities for you. Keep an eye on the inbox.
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November 21st, 2008 at 12:01 am
god damn. my computer thinks every file that’s not assigned to a program is a quicktime movie… what is this cbr business?
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November 21st, 2008 at 6:25 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Archive_file
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November 21st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
thanks. I worked it out. had to search a bit for a program that would read it on mac, but now I’ve got a reader.
BRILLIANT!
I know several people that will enjoy the life right out of this. We have several excellent comic book shops around here. I’ll look out for a physical copy of this.
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November 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pm
whoop!
I read apocalypse nerd on the train to hastings today. Sheet, that was bleak! I read the first ish in St Marks comics in NY a few years ago, I didnt see it going THAT hardcore. Cheers Colin!
Mark, I ain forgot your faces vid, I’ll check that ish sometime this weekend. How;d the interview go?
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November 21st, 2008 at 9:21 pm