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Finally, after years spent procrastinating with intense determination, the elusive hermit Al Burian returns to grace us with some more of his crazy half-baked opinions. This constitutes the COMICS issue, and as such is chock full of drawings, short subway sketches, an essay extolling the virtues of the post-Fort Thunder school of comics, and an extended Jack Chick religious tract parody, culminating in a climactic Marvel style battle between the author and God.
The writing spans the last several years in CHICAGO, and is some kind of attempt at wrestling a meaning, moral and/or hopefully happy ending from that bitterly temperatured town. Finding beauty in Chicago is like panning for gold: it’s not that it isn’t there or isn’t worth it, you just may find yourself spending a lot of time sifting.
The cover was made in Berlin; the Sears tower was copied from a coffee mug.
