The Perry Bible Fellowship has a new home in G2.

I always figured angel genitalia was so gloriously perfect that no human being could ever begin to understand.

PROCEED

is the book a 'best of'?

It must be, because although the book supposedly contains some new strips, I think the majority are ones that are already in the archive.

I'm ok with that though. It's still one of the few comics that actually make me laugh out loud every once in a while.

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF234-Finneas.jpg

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF222-Gamblin_Man.jpg#207

I love that his dish says "FIN"

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF222-Gamblin_Man.jpg

oh fuck off

http://pbfcomics.com/archive/PBF222-Gamblin_Man.jpg

^^^that concept was served way better by the 'happy fantasy land' suicide note cartoon

^^^^^shut up and laugh

lol

^^^^HIDERE OTM

Tell me this one isn't better...

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive/0PBF38032BC-Suicide_Train.jpg

He's been on fairly good form of late, looking at the more recent ones.

NEWSFLASH: They are both funny.

Yeah, but the happy fantasy land strip is better.

god save me from overanalytical humorkillers

"Better" = overanalysis, obviously.

WHO CARES WHICH ONE IS "BETTER"? THAT WAS NOT WHY I POSTED IT; I POSTED IT BECAUSE I READ IT AND THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY.

FFS IT'S NOT A HUMOR COMPETITION

PS: http://pbfcomics.com/archive/0PBF57013BC-Better_Luck_Next_Time.jpg

oh, good, let's apply that music-crit ranking impulse to comics. we can remove the fun from the joke and then use the joke-husks as cultural capital.

fuck you, l. jagger.

haha @ the 'i lose' one

Wld joke-husks be a good investment in these worrisome financial times - the future equivalent of the Cambodian skull-trading market era?

http://www.pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF238-Capital_Punishment.jpg

creepy! funny!

that guy so knew there was no F

i think this is my favourite in a long, long time.

that's the point, it's a cruel, inevitable ritual, which makes it a far better strip than if it were random chance.

^^^^^ no

Thanks professor!

i Just got proffed

louis, please refrain from explicating 'funny' anymore, thanks

hahahahahaha we've done this, right here on this thread

^^^^^ no

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:51 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

You can read it either way, but I'd imagine all the townsfolk know how KA-GAROO is completed. That they go for 'F' and 'L' I take to be a surefire sign that they're slowly, deliberately sending this man to his death.

how about the letters STFU? would they pick those??

and did i ever say i was explicating 'funny', rather than 'how a comic strip concept works'?

lol Slumpman jumping on the LJ-bashing bandwagon, collect 90 popularity points NOW, you're part of the ILX KREW!

don't Krew me sunshine, you were being a chump.

There's no F in weigh.

the humor in this exchange lies not in the actual posts, but between them

Did anyone else get the book besides me? It's a fine addition to any bathroom.

PS: As my follow-on post explicates, my "no" was not to say you are wrong, LJ; it was to say "stop sucking humor out of this strip by diagramming it".

i think i might get it as an xmas gift (for someone else)

hahah that's one of my new favourites now

I got the book as a birthday present (for someone else). Surprisingly hard to find. Asking "do you have the Perry Bible Fellowship" at four different bookshops like I was some kind of lonely God-botherer.

"What kind of book is it?"
"It's a comic book (I am not a religious nutjob)"
^ second part not actually spoken out loud

omg i didn't know there was a book. tick one xmas gift for, erm, somebody

It's only 10 bucks or so, too. It's available on his site.

i ordered 2 !

yay for great stocking fillers

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2008/01/05/records-broken-by-the-perry-bible-fellowship/

"25-year-old cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch watched as the pre-order sales climbed past $300,000 for The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories."

"Close to 27,000 copies were sold even before the collection of comic strips had its official release in November."

I'm a huge fan of "smart people humor", and PBF has never let me down. It was torture having to wait the long months until I received this book for a Christmas present - I was instructed not to buy it from the gift giver.

Two thumbs up, Mr. Gurewitch. Two thumbs up. Hurry up with a sequel already!

For people who don't read I Love Comics: (semi-)R.I.P.

Perry Bible Fellowship COLLECTION!!!!

I think he's trying to tell us something