The Woodshed: Dog Finds Moebius Vein, Goes For The Ware Double Feature

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Now available at comiXology: the obligatory top comics of the year type of list. It's a top twenty, the next five would have been (in no particular order) Dungeon Quest, Wilson, Grotesque, 1-800 MICE and whatever webcomic it was that I kept meaning to read in 2010 when I was discovering a previously unknown passion for Judge Dredd.

Previous comiXology installments included the Michel Fiffe teach-comics team-up and a cursory examination of what shit looks/tastes like. Should be more of these in the new year, we'll see.

The Factual's 2010 music countdown is winding down, and the final three will be showing up over the next couple of days. It should go without saying that the addition of Sean Witzke to the write-up squadron has been an incomparable source of excitement for both Marty and I, but I'm saying it anyway. Expect more of him as often as he can make time in his hang-out-with-Steranko schedule.

Regular programming returns with the coming of the new year, even Nina, who is still trying her best to find a comic that doesn't make her pass out in a pool of her own leavings.

Outsourcing

Dirk Deppey's final Journalista went live a few days before the holidays took over, it's unlikely anyone reading this little note will not have seen it, but i'm mentioning it here so as to join the chorus of people bemoaning his departure. Dirk's the reason you found this site, he's the reason that other sites brought me on board to write for them. He's irreplaceable, and we're poorer for his absence. Keep up with him on Twitter, I guess.

Tom Spurgeon's holiday interviews are rocking and rolling, as they have for many years. Matt Seneca, Joe Casey, Zunar and Dustin Harbin. That's just the ones I've read so far, and there's more to come? All the time, that's what these should be.

Spurgeon can't interview everybody though, which is why God created Chris Mautner. Here he is with Lynda Barry, talking next to garbage. (PS: I saw Mautner the day he did this interview, over at that Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival, and the dude has been straight up working the fuck out lately. Mautner's jacked, kid, maybe the most jacked man on the scene. Think about that the next time you see somebody complain about one of his negative reviews of those DC cartoons. Those people are playing with their fucking lives.)

Deadpool Max, explained, Mindless Ones style. Was adding David Allison to God's own wrecking crew the most dastardly piece of overkill since black met leather? Probably, but let the crybabies brew their own milk: we salute the flag.

The dog finds comics, she does, she finds them in one store in Georgia. I ask the dog: how much you want for these things, little princess? She says cover price, minus 10%.

I say yeah, I say okay.

Monster 3

Long unavailable following the collapse of sanity, this is a replacement copy for the one I passed on to a man stricken with must-have-it-desperation. It isn't the best installment in the series, possibly one of the worst (old man and Kenma must save the old lady, thus saving love), but hey, who can resist the opportunity to fill those OOP gaps?

Zenith 1, 2

Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell, back in the got-something-to-prove days. Don't know 'em, never read 'em, but I love young turk output almost as much as I love that dog, and friend, i'm really into that dog.

Floyd Farland Citizen of the Future

This was the one that set the tea-kettle screaming, the one where the brain said "I know what that is" and logic responded "but there's no goddamn way". After this, tracking the Moebius vein went ipso-facto--if they have Floyd, they've got others, lemme take a look-see. And while the Moebius is unlikely to be bested in the quality department, it's hard to imagine something higher than Floyd in the curiosity arena. This is it, the goes-for-too-much-on-Ebay comic, the one that (according to Wikipedia) Chris Ware is supposedly buying up just to destroy. Cover was 2.95. It came home at a flat 2.60.

Moebius 1, 2, 3
Moebius The Man From The Ciguri
Moebius Exotics
Heavy Metal Presents Moebius (introduction by Federico Fellini)

Because it's Moebius, and because why not go all out. Left behind: multiple copies of Moebius 1-6, full runs of the Incal, Blueberry, more of the Dark Horse stuff, that Taniguchi thing with flying babies on umbilical leashes, the Silver Surfer hardcover, all of this stuff right here, next to Judge Dredd, hanging out alongside X-Force hardcovers: clean, kind, friendly.

Comments

[seth hurley]

if you double back and get another copy of Moebius 1, I'll let you have the ass.

once.

[Abhay]

Every time that comic comes up, I get excited for a split-second that Chris Ware might have done a comic adaptation of the movie Ford Fairlane when he was young and desperate ala Vanessa Williams. The depressing story of the birth and death of America's least favorite Rock-n-Roll Detective. Every time-- it's like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football.

[Jog]

I've literally dreamed of finding Floyd Farland in a dollar bin. Below cover price still seems fanciful, I'd have checked to make sure the dog doesn't speak English or something.

[Abhay]

Oh also: if you're not following the Airtight Garage tumblr-- that's not a bad one. I think I found that through Brandon Graham's blog, maybe...? They just put up an old collaboration drawing he did with Geoff Darrow...

[Richard Baez]

I passed Floyd Farland seven or eight times in the my days-of-bin-diving-past, waaaay before I was aware of what the hell I was supposed to be looking at. One of my biggest regrets, along with persistently ignoring that Kyle Baker/Lewis Carroll adaptation .

[Amy Lopp]

That dog is an angel. Too bad she suffers from a severe form of copraphagia.

[Nate]

Where in Georgia did the dog find those gems?

[rev'd.76]

Seriously, mate-- which store in GA.? I've an aching abcess in the latter half of my Epic Moebius collection that needs serious stuffing...

[tucker stone]

sorry guys, wasn't trying to keep it a secret. the moebius stuff is at galactic quest, which is a store in a town called lawrenceville.

seth, i'll do my best, but my primary goal right now is to get home, regardless of what the airlines would prefer.

[Avalon]

NO ONE MAN SHOULD HAVE ALL THOSE MOEBIUS BOOKS

IT'S TOO MUCH POWER