Yep, I got it. Cerebus book 13 arrived in my mail on Friday. I now have all of Cerebus in one form or another, from the first colelction of barbarian/funny animal parody books, through to the bitter, bitter crackpot end. This is my new reading project over the next few months. 6,000 pages of comics about a talking aardvark. Am I crazy? Maybe. But not as crazy as the man who spent 27 consecutive years publishing this story monthly, on his own dime. That, I can guarantee.

I think what I'll be doing is posting reflections on each major storyline as I complete it. So there will be roughly 16 Cerebus related posts here, covering each phone book collection in some form or another. A lot of this material I've read before (everything up through the end of book 12, plus the final issue), and the rest will be new to me.

Wish me luck, I might need it.

In other news: Took a financially ill-advised trip to Comic Relief last night, on the way to the Anticon benefit show at Bottom of the Hill. Picked up a few more books there, including Epoxy #3, Pounded #1-3, Blood Orange #3, and Stupid Comics #3 (do you see a pattern here? Odd, I just noticed all those threes). I'll probably read those first, before I settle in on the big project above, but that shouldn't take too long. In fact, I think I'm gonna bike over to Aroma Roasters right now to read comics and play with my Mac.