Book shelves series #18, eighteenth Sunday of 2012.
Lots of issues of McSweeney’s on this shelf. I abandoned The Instructions. Some Tintin omnibuses. Crumb-illustrated Kafka bio. Bookended by Will Eisner’s masterwork A Contract with God:
A Chris Ware comic from McSweeney’s #13:
You read the Instructions yet? Thoughts? Also, Contract with God is amazing.
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Oh wait, says you abandoned it. How far did you get and why did you give it up? I had mixed feelings but pushed through to the end.
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Hey, Joey—I put my link to my review of it above in the post (it’s linked to the title). I was probably a bit harsh on it in retrospect. For whatever reason, I held on to it instead of trading it.
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The Little Nun was brilliant. It seems only right that you give proper credit to the artist, Mark Newgarden, whose body of work is nothing short of genius.
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