This strip is a clear nod to Knights of the Dinner Table. Pizza-a-Gogo is the joint where Dungeon Master B.A. works, and both Bob and Brian are known for wearing their dice bags in public–without scorn or ridicule to boot! Don’t you wish gaming was as socially acceptable as it is in the world of KoDT?
At long last, SubCulture Volume 2: Die Harder is available in Previews. It collects strips 94 through 186, which includes a couple of our most popular storylines–Babs’ cosplay party and the story where Bart and Arthur talk about sex in code using gamer speak. Laughs for the whole family!
You can find the solicitation on page 220 in the Ape Entertainment section. The order code is NOV110708. Do us a big huge favor and ask your LCS to order one of these for you. Or you are welcome to order direct from us as well–the book is available in our online store.
As always, thanks for your patronage and support.
Hey gang! I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago by Amber Love for the Comic Book Page podcast. We talked about the strip and the recent solicitation of Volume 3: The Return of the King’s Throne. Click on this link to listen!
Order order order now (I would order now). Ask your local comic shop to order SubCulture Volume 3: The Return of the King’s Throne in this month’s Previews. You can find it on page 226, and the order code is SEP11 0739. This volume features Bart’s discovery of old books in his back room, another SuperCon storyline, and the first appearance of Sunshine, Larry, and Merlin’s Outhouse. This collects strips 187-279 if you are keeping score at home. Only 10 bucks (maybe less) for 96 pages packed with peanuts.
Waitaminute. Did you say volume THREE? What the hell happened to volume TWO?
Well, there is a good (bad) story to that. The short story is that our solicitation for Volume 2 that we sent to Ape a few months ago got, well, misplaced. And by the time that they had found it, I had given them the solicitation for Volume 3, which they proceeded to send to Diamond. So long story short–Volume 3 is being solicited before Volume 2.
But fear not. Volume 2 should be in the October Previews, and if all goes well, both Volumes 2 and 3 will ship to stores at the exact same time, as soon as we get the numbers for both. The books are printed, so we can’t blame the printer for any SNAFUS that might happen along the way.
Hopefully this won’t cause any hassles, and things will be business as usual here in old SubCulture-land.
In the meantime, keep enjoying the strips as we get close to finishing everything that is going to go in Volume 4.
This weekend you’re in for a rare treat! Stan and I are actually going to be at the same convention. And to make things even better, we’re sharing two tables together. We usually both go to SDCC each year, but are in two different places. You can find us at tables 3308 and 3310–right in the heart of Artists’ Alley!
We will have copies of SubCulture: The TPB ($15) plus Volumes 1-3 of SubCulture: The Webstrips ($10 each), hot off the presses! In fact, volumes 2 and 3 haven’t even been solicited to stores yet. Get all four for $40! Plus Stan and I will both sign them and doodle in them.
We’ll also have prints, free buttons and bookmarks, dice jewelry from our friends at Dice World, and Stan will be doing commissions all weekend. And you probably can find us at one of the bars after hours. Buy us drinks!
These are the books you are looking for, young jedis.
Just to let everyone know, SubCulture: The Webstrips Volume 1–The Wrath of Geek arrived at my doorstep from the printer today. That means that it should be in stores probably next week, August 17th. Books 2 and 3 have also been printed, and one box of each is being shipped to my hotel in Chicago for Wizard World Chicago. When I get back from the con, I will mail books 1-3 to everyone who preordered the set. So if all goes well, everyone should have them in their sweaty palms by the end of next week, God willing.
Book 2 SHOULD be in the September Previews, and Book 3 SHOULD be in the October Previews, if all goes well. A lost email or two pushed the solicitation of Book 2 back TWO months, but I think we are on track now. They are printed and ready to go.
Book 4, for those of you who are curious, will be a little bigger. I will probably take it all the way to the end of the current SuperCon storyline, which ends with Strip 397. So it will be more like 128 pages instead of 96. We’ll try to keep the price manageable as well–something like $11.95 is about what it will be.
Stan and I are going to be fully posting and Tweeting from Chicago. We also hear that Noel will be in town as well!
