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Volume 8 is the one we've come to expect - KG&TLDOTA.

Volume 7 is going to be titled.... "Farting Rainbows"??????

Discuss.

jwhouk wrote:http://wapsisquare.com/comic/wapsi-book-ad/

Volume 8 is the one we've come to expect - KG&TLDOTA.

Volume 7 is going to be titled.... "Farting Rainbows"??????

Discuss.

Why discuss? Just CHEER!!!

(and, I suppose, fart along with M)

EDIT: $ME expresses a hope that Paul does an initial run of these, "premium", with sketches, that we can order direct from him... I'd preorder one of each in a red-hot minute.

Volume 7 is gonna be a long one, going from Shelly's return all the way up to the Anasazi arc.

I'm partial to Volume 8, of course...

Yay!

well, Volume 7 is on Lulu right now, and i just ordered one for myself, Woot!, and YES, it IS called "Farting Rainbows"...

Direct link to the Farting Rainbows book page in his store...

320 pages! Yeah, it's a doozie. Twice the size of "Visits To A Sandbar" and the others in 1-6 (and a few bucks less than twice the price).

OhBoyOhBoyOhBoyOhBoyOhBoyOhBoyOhBoyOhBoyOhBoyOhBoyOhBoyOhBoy...

(I can't say "I just can't wait for it to arrive"... because if that were true I'd have sprung for expensive expedited shipping, rather than the cheap "Just mail it" version. I can wait... more time to savor the anticipation!)

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Seventh Wapsi Square Book Purchased!

I'm still working up my own list of things, and because next month has THIS on it's list, I will need to forgo, for now, the satisfaction of proclaiming

"Seven!, In One Blow!"

(After all, I lurked and skulked about enough comic shops to collect quite a bit of Foglio and stuff, why not some Pablo to fill in a bit of the shelf...) <-- Rhetorical musing has no question mark...

Just got the "We shipped it!" notice from Lulu!

TazManiac wrote:I'm still working up my own list of things, and because next month has THIS on it's list, I will need to forgo, for now, the satisfaction of proclaiming

"Seven!, In One Blow!"

Aaah, c'mon. You know you want to... and I'm sure you can manage to live on ramen noodles for a few weeks to make it possible!

Dave wrote:Just got the "We shipped it!" notice from Lulu!

Same here!

Dave wrote:Just got the "We shipped it!" notice from Lulu!

TazManiac wrote:I'm still working up my own list of things, and because next month has THIS on it's list, I will need to forgo, for now, the satisfaction of proclaiming

"Seven!, In One Blow!"

Aaah, c'mon. You know you want to... and I'm sure you can manage to live on ramen noodles for a few weeks to make it possible!

http://i2.wp.com/cdn.makezine.com/uploa ... =600%2C400

THAT's what you're saving up for?

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Copy of Wapsi Square Volume 7 - Farting Rainbows in my possession!

jwhouk wrote:ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Copy of Wapsi Square Volume 7 - Farting Rainbows in my possession!

Grrr. You got home before I did.

Mine was apparently delivered at 1:40 this afternoon. Assuming that nonaubumz got there first, I'll have it after dinner this evening!

jwhouk wrote:THAT's what you're saving up for?

Well, yeah. btw, it comes in pieces and I get to solder and otherwise assemble it myself.

That's the real 'gift to myself' part...

Volume 8 is now available.

I am NOT getting it.














...until I can get a signed copy from the author, that is.

TazManiac wrote:

jwhouk wrote:THAT's what you're saving up for?

Well, yeah. btw, it comes in pieces and I get to solder and otherwise assemble it myself.

That's the real 'gift to myself' part...

Yeah, that's fun. There's a real joy in creating something interesting yourself. Even if it's somebody else's design, and bag of kitted-up parts, you know that this particular one wouldn't exist as a useful device if you hadn't built it.

And, VFDs are cool! They're basically just tiny triode vacuum tubes (cathode, grid, and anode) with fluorescent anodes and multiple grids.

Noritake (the biggest manufacturer of VFDs) is seeing their marjet fade away, replaced by LCDs and OLEDs. They've apparently announced a new product... a microminiature dual-triode vacuum tube, for audiophile and musician use (e.g. in guitar amplifiiers). It's rather a gimmick, I suspect, but it's a cute spinoff of their technology and probably wasn't all that hard for them to engineer.

jwhouk wrote:Volume 8 is now available.

I am NOT getting it.

...until I can get a signed copy from the author, that is.

Well, I decided not to wait... just put in my order with Lulu. Signed copies would have been nice, but who knows when he'll offer them (IIRC it was some years after 1-6 were available that Paul offered signed-sketch versions).

I've got a nice collection of his signed original artwork, sufficient to create that comfortable glow of happiness

Lulu had me confused -- Vol 8 is first on page 1, and Vol 7 is next to last on page 2.

Waiting on the mail now....

I've not been able to make much sense of how Lulu orders an author's titles.

I didn't see that very nice "Illustration" collection of color strips and sketches and pinups that Paul offered a year or two ago. Checking my copy I don't see any identification of the printer, so it might not have been a Lulu production.

Got Volume 8 today, just as promised. Very nice... starts (as expected) with the Nudge Goes Bathing sequence, ends with the "Would you like that? Oh, yes, please!" adoption, and has a great glossy-color version of the (somewhat later) "Mama Bear" three-way hug on the back cover.

Print-on-demand services such as Lulu are a wonderful thing. It's so much easier for a "specialist" publication to be printed and distributed these days... the modern version of the old "underground press" but available to pretty much anybody at the push of a button. No minimum press runs, no remainders, no unsold stock which these days often gets hit with an "asset tax"... you can keep books "in print" indefinitely at any sales level.

(Disclaimer: I have one book at Lulu myself... Laporte's "Radio Antenna Engineering". It's in the public domain these days, so I put it up for purchase using Lulu's "royalties are waived" sell-at-cost-of-printing program.)