Goats The Corndog Imperative (The Infinite Pendergast Cycle) - Softcover

Rosenberg, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345510933 ISBN 13: 9780345510938

Publisher: Del Rey, 2009

Synopsis

Book Two of The Infinite Pendergast Cycle

God is dead. Reality isn’t real. And the end of the multiverse is coming! Nobody knew any of this stuff at the beginning–least of all Jon and Phillip, two of the drunker inhabitants of our own particularly ignorant level of existence. Then again, it was these bickering cyber-geeks who flew to the center of the galaxy where they met–and ate–God Himself . . . which may just have kick-started the apocalypse. A new collection of strips from the acclaimed webcomic, Goats: The Corndog Imperative is a unique cosmic comedy of errors, pocket universes, and monkeys with typewriters.

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 second volume collecting the popular Web comic Goats gets off to a slow start, but then, it's understandably hard to follow a story line in which your characters turn God into a sandwich and eat him. Goats is reminiscent of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, only stranger and less plot-driven. Diablo, a rooster with a can-do attitude who happens to be a Satanist, and Fish/Fineas, a mad scientist goldfish with multiple personalities, are the closest thing to heroes. Together, they venture forth to stop Diablo's quasi-evil son Oliver and save the multiverse. Meanwhile Jon and Phillip, a pair of geeky human slackers, sit around a bar for a while before getting kidnapped to reprogram the universe. The multiverse, you see, is a giant virtual reality program, and both worlds are looking for the programmer who can change things for the better. Of course, being slackers, Jon and Phillip have no idea how to do this and little interest in doing so, much to the consternation of their kidnappers. Random potshots at libertarians, user agreements and Monsanto follow. A baroque confection of jokes, science fiction tropes and sheer inspired weirdness. (Dec.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Del Rey
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345510933
• ISBN 13: 9780345510938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168