Sorry for the delay in today's comic, I'm distracted by a thousand different things this week, most notably the launch of our new store and the impending release of Infinite Typewriters on Tuesday. If you're looking to order yourself a signed copy I recommend you pull the trigger soon.
Anyhoo, the comic will be up late tonight or early tomorrow, depending on how long it takes me to rewrite this script into something coherent. In the meantime, entertain yourselves with these Infinite Typewriters reviews!
- Ain't It Cool News says "This collection of online comics by Jonathan Rosenberg is a collection of extended comedy skits that range from hilarous to pee-inducing... GOATS is funny and unique, highlighted by Rosenberg's simplistic cartoony, but confident, art style."
- Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow says "It's always infrasilly, plumbing depths of silliness that skate on the edge of incomprehensible obscenity and weird-for-the-sake-over without ever slipping over... This all has the refreshing spontaneous unforced high weirdness of the weirder Monty Python sketches, and it will reset your freakiness thermometer to a higher threshold than you thought possible."
- Chris Yates made a photo comic that says "It may in fact be the best book."
- Johanna Draper Carlson says "Thick white gloss paper makes for a book with heft; it feels very solid and substantial."
- Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources says "But then as I dove further into the book I found Rosenberg attempting to, if not deepen his story, at least stretch it out into something more epic and knotty. Plot lines started to weave into each other. Philosophical and political themes started to emerge and the parodies started to get a bit more thoughtful than “celebrities suck.” He seemed to be trying to create something beyond his initial gag-a-day formula and I find it tough not to admire that.
- Graphic Novel Reporter includes G:IT in its Hottest Graphic Novels of Summer 2009 roundup and says "Goats: Infinite Typewriters is funny and unpredictable, with no topic considered off-limits."
- Steven Grant at Comic Book Resources says "...Rosenberg's a good cartoonist and has no qualms about entertainingly excoriating religion, atheism, William Shatner, historical revisionism, and similar taboos before simply launching into manic stories leading to Rosenberg's spurious revelations of the true nature of reality, and the result is often funny, though not laugh out loud funny. Not sure why it's called GOATS either, since there seems to be only one goat (plus two chickens, a goldfish, aliens, bikers, various iterations of walking dead and a pile of monkeys) but one thing I am sure of: this is what Scott McCloud has been talking about all these years."
- Rick Marshall at MTV's Splashpage says "'Infinite Typewriters' is pretty much a shoo-in for one of my favorite books of the year... "Goats" is a surreal, beer-soaked, dimension-spanning adventure through some of the most unique worlds (and dimensions) I’ve ever encountered... I really can’t recommend this one enough, and I'll probably end up buying myself an extra copy just to loan out."
- Gary at Fleen says "If you’ve grown up in a certain timeframe, if you voraciously consume science fiction and fantasy stories, and if you find yourself simultaneously engrossed within and repulsed by the conventions of those stories, this book may as well be the sacred tome of your tribe."
- Mike at Newsarama says "...Rosenberg’s Goats is definitely not your average inside-reference geekfest. The jokes are sharp, the pacing relentless, and the characters vibrantly, twistedly delightful. It’s silly, surprising fun, racing from out outlandish scenario about world conquest to visiting the dimension where the monkeys write the characters’ lives, all while mixing pop culture and political references that will tickle many a geek’s funny bone."
- Leroy Douresseaux at Comic Book Bin says " The word “surreal” doesn’t do this book justice, nor does “sci-fi parody” really describe the humor here. Goats is like Red Dwarf meets Monty Python’s Flying Circus with Seinfeld’s deft mix of sharp sarcasm and dry wit. There’s so much funny, crazy stuff in here that I could enjoy Goats: Infinite Typewriters for weeks."
- Shortpacked'sDavid Willis says "There are so many things going on in this book. It's not like some slow-paced decompressed storytelling like Bendis or the more tedious segments from It's Walky!. Stuff, crazy stuff, happens from panel to panel, and there are regularly at least nine panels per page. Not more than twenty pages in, God himself has been randomly devoured. And that's just the beginning! But happenings are not always so densely packed. Some of my favorite parts are when the art is blown up to full-page size. Establishing shots! Moments of wonder and/or terror! There are reasons why Goats is well-revered."
- Car Bombs' Sonny Strait says "This is funny stuff. It is stream of consciousness writing at its best. Jon Rosenberg may meticulously plan these strips out but they don’t read that way. It’s more like some twisted episode of “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” that started with one subject and never ended. It just mutated and grew into this grand, dream-like monster of a skit."
I'll post more reviews here as they roll in.
