Goats The Corndog Imperative [Paperback]

Jonathan Rosenberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2009 | Series: Goats

Book Two of The Infinite Pendergast Cycle

God is dead. Reality isn’t real. And the end of the multiverse is coming! Nobody knew any of this stuff at the beginning–least of all Jon and Phillip, two of the drunker inhabitants of our own particularly ignorant level of existence. Then again, it was these bickering cyber-geeks who flew to the center of the galaxy where they met–and ate–God Himself . . . which may just have kick-started the apocalypse. A new collection of strips from the acclaimed webcomic, Goats: The Corndog Imperative is a unique cosmic comedy of errors, pocket universes, and monkeys with typewriters.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The second volume collecting the popular Web comic Goats gets off to a slow start, but then, it's understandably hard to follow a story line in which your characters turn God into a sandwich and eat him. Goats is reminiscent of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, only stranger and less plot-driven. Diablo, a rooster with a can-do attitude who happens to be a Satanist, and Fish/Fineas, a mad scientist goldfish with multiple personalities, are the closest thing to heroes. Together, they venture forth to stop Diablo's quasi-evil son Oliver and save the multiverse. Meanwhile Jon and Phillip, a pair of geeky human slackers, sit around a bar for a while before getting kidnapped to reprogram the universe. The multiverse, you see, is a giant virtual reality program, and both worlds are looking for the programmer who can change things for the better. Of course, being slackers, Jon and Phillip have no idea how to do this and little interest in doing so, much to the consternation of their kidnappers. Random potshots at libertarians, user agreements and Monsanto follow. A baroque confection of jokes, science fiction tropes and sheer inspired weirdness. (Dec.)
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“This all has the refreshing spontaneous unforced high weirdness of the weirder Monty Python sketches, and it will reset your freakiness thermometer to a higher threshold than you thought possible.”—Cory Doctorow

“As pointed as it is random . . . Goats pulls off the difficult collision of the significant and the silly. . . . Jonathan Rosenberg’s subversive, metafictional multiverse is no more chaotic or absurd than the real worlds it’s made up of, and he rules it with a deft hand.”—Stewart O’Nan, author of Snow Angels

“Jonathan Rosenberg has perfected a concoction of bizarre plot developments and quietly absurd dialogue.”—Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics

“When Jonathan Rosenberg toils for our amusement, he hits the mark unerringly–and he doesn’t have the simple decency to make it look difficult.”—Jerry “Tycho” Holkins, co-creator of Penny Arcade

“The most important book about talking fish with imaginary girlfriends you’ll ever read . . . a comic work of genius. I commend it to you highly.” —Charles Stross, author of Halting State

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Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey (December 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345510933
• ISBN-13: 978-0345510938
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.5 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #99,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bizarre, yet oddly fascinating and hilarious, February 26, 2010

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I discovered Goats online some years ago. I followed the comic online for a while, but lost interest when it became hard to follow. Yet somehow, when packaged up in book form it all makes some sort of bizarre sense. And it is highly entertaining. Definitely recommended.