Goats Infinite Typewriters - Softcover

Rosenberg, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345510925 ISBN 13: 9780345510921

Publisher: Del Rey, 2009

Synopsis

It’s not as if one decides to wake up one day, argue existentialism with livestock, and fly a spaceship to the center of the galaxy to meet, greet–and eat–God. It just sort of happens. At least it does in the world of Goats, the cult-hit webcomic wherein a clutch of brave if baffled barflies (including humans, chickens, and a cyborg goldfish) hit the interdimensional bricks to save the multiverse from certain doom kicked off by a cosmic computer glitch. You can’t make this stuff up–unless you’re one of the monkeys tapping on infinite typewriters who controls all reality. You’ll see. . . .

About this title

About the Author

Jonathan Rosenberg , the creator of the webcomics Goats and megaGAMERZ 3133T, has been producing webcomics since 1997, making him one of the original webcomic artists. He graduated from Cornell University in 1995 with a major in biology and once worked as a website design consultant. Jonathan is now a full-time cartoonist and lives in Westchester County, New York.

Reviews

The first mass-marketed collection of Rosenberg's long-running sci-fi geek-comedy Web comic revels in its own weirdness—it plunges straight into a bar discussion between a chicken, a goat and some aliens, and keeps piling absurdity on absurdity. (There is one steadfast maxim that I hold dear, one character notes: an immortal super intelligent combat-trained zombie cyborg goldfish with a machine gun can have whatever the hell he wants.) The book's first sequence ends with human protagonists Jon and Phillip convincing God to turn himself into a pork chop, then eating Him. Halfway through this volume, there's a showdown between Good Hitler and the recursive space-cows of Space Hitler, and if you're scratching your head by now, that's probably the desired effect. Fortunately, Rosenberg tends to sneak at least a small punch line into every panel—a couple of quips are already notorious Goats T-shirts, like what part of 'ninja' don't you understand? Rosenberg's full-color art has a blobby, loony flair to it. And if his storytelling often seems to be afflicted with severe short-attention-span syndrome, its free-associative culture-reference overload lets him get away with gags like a drunken Buddha announcing Your momma so fat, she travels the noble eightfold path all at once! (June)
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It’s another night at the Peculier sic Pub, where the conversation can start with a philosophical debate about God’s existence and morph into a discussion about homicidal robots. In Rosenberg’s first compilation of his long-running Web comic, Goats, no topic is too risqué for the pub’s glib patrons Jon and Phillip and their assorted pals, who include androgynous, gray-skinned-alien lovers Neil and Bob, and Diablo, a red-crested rooster. With the aim of lending Jon and Phillip’s geeky misadventures the flavor of an evolving narrative, Rosenberg here supplements the original three-panel strips with new material. In one story thread, Jon and Phillip borrow their alien friends’ flying saucer and make a beeline for the galactic core to meet God himself. In another, Diablo clones himself to produce a foul-mouthed, yellow chick who unleashes a chainsaw-wielding robot at a Web comics convention. Every vignette features Rosenberg’s predilection for satiric jabs at mainstream culture; and though there may be more misses than hits in the punch-line department, the Goats gang’s shameless shenanigans are highly addictive. --Carl Hays

Edition details

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345510925
• ISBN 13: 9780345510921
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176