Whew!  This is a brutal, emotionally wrenching and disturbing -- but ultimately very rewarding -- book.  Collecting the entire Vertigo mini-series, it takes that which so many rely on for emotional succor, and especially so in these anxiety ridden times -- our pets -- and then places them directly at the center of the source of so many of our anxieties -- the high-tech amoral world of the modern American military establishment.  Yet, it is a pitch perfect treatment of the theme.  There is not a single false step from start to finsh, and Quitely's art is the best of his career.  If you can stomach the grisly imagery this book dishes out, you'll find that it has a point to it and that the narrative makes a very strong case to back it up.  Although, to be honest, as with any work of fantasy that attempts to double as a polemic, there is the inevitable bit of having your cake and eating it too; but that's all part of the pleasure, guilty though it may be.

Here is a lot/set of 20 of the earliest issues of a magazine that did a good job of documenting the zetigeist of the early 21st century.  These are unread copies from the Copacetic Back Room.  One or two may have a minor tear, but they are in excellent condition overall, and include the occasional bonus inert and CD.   Cool comics work is included is just about every issue

Arthur was published on a bi-monthly schedule (meaning an issue(s) is/are missing only when there is a gap of three months or more).  The issues in this lot are:

January 2003 

March 2003

July 2003

September 2003

November 2003

January 2004

March 2004

May 2004

July 2004

September 2004

November 2004

January 2005

March 2005

May 2005

July 2005

September 2005

May 2006

July 2006

Winter 02006

December 2007

With Supergods, Mr. Morrison takes a stab at deconstructing the comics genre that pays his bills and made him famous.  Here's a (relatively rare) opportunity to read (what we trust will be insightful and articulate) critical musings from inside the industry by someone who has established themselves as a leading light in the post-Watchmen era of self-aware and self-critical interpretations and applications of superhero narratives, conventions and tropes.  The book opens with a Nietzsche quote employing his seminal use of the term superman (übermensch), is divided into four sections –  The Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Dark Age and The Renaissance – does not contain any bibliography but does append a (very) modest list of suggestions for "further reading" that includes books on comics as well as collections of comics, and has what seems on first glance to be a half-decent index; should be interesting.