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May 1, 2012 4:39 am I wasn't going to order the book, but then I saw Jim McCann's name on it and remembered that I really enjoyed the interviews on the video show. So, I had to order, if he is that entertaining and cool during an interview, the book has to be brilliant :)

April 26, 2012 5:20 am I agree, especially because of the art, it's fitting perfectly.

April 26, 2012 5:02 am Thanks! Checked it out, looks awesome. I just ordered some Prophet back-issues as well, this stuff is right up my ally ;)

April 25, 2012 12:51 pm Pre-Ordered #1 knowing nothing aside from the blurb and excerpt in Previews. Art looked good, reminded me of Prophet plus I simply enjoy SF tales. Unsure about it though, I still have no idea what the book is really about and what to expect.

April 21, 2012 11:46 am Nice! I thought it was, as the copies I saw in stores did not have that deckle edge. Weird, I guess those were production errors then.

April 20, 2012 3:30 pm I absolutely love this book. It was one of the first graphic novels I bought after reading about it on BoingBoing and it has been in my Top 10 favorite OGNs ever since. I particularly like that :01 handled the book perfectly, especially the cover and the paper are spot on. My copy actually does not have a clean cut on the right edge of the pages, but appears to be ripped. I guess that is a production error, but it fits the book nicely and I actually thought it was on purpose at first. As to the wine, I don't drink, so, no idea.

March 3, 2012 8:14 am That'd be great, yeah. I really liked that the show wasn't always about the most recent stuff, helped a lot in a) understanding the background of a lot of books better and b) finding older stuff to read in trade I would have never found by myself.

March 3, 2012 7:50 am I am with you! Aside from grabbing the first issue of Y: The Last Man, iFanboy video was what got me into reading comics and enabled me, even as a new reader, to make informed decisions about what to read and introduced me to some of my favorite books (Astro City! Thanks guys! Seriously.). I live in Germany and few people here are familiar with US comic books, even the people working at my LCS. Without the video show, I would probably have read Y and that was it The video show was important to me, because Ron, Josh and Conor helped me find the right books for me. Without it, I would probably have bought a few mainstream books, would never understand what was going on and never buy them again. What I loved about the show were the introduction and summary episodes. "If you want to get into Green Lantern, read this, this and this." etc. Especially because the videos, through the interaction of the guys, the short glimpses of the actual pages and the in-depth descriptions were easy to follow - even for someone like me, who knew next to nothing - and always gave me a good idea what the book in question would be like. I can totally understand that you can't do these shows anymore, but I will sincerely miss them. Thanks so much for your hard work, it really was a great help and always entertaining.

September 9, 2009 4:51 pm I really enjoyed it as well.Really like the art as well. All in all, what I enjoyed most was the tone and the atmosphere it managed to build in just 4 pages. Light-hearted and without consideration of consequence. Just like the dude on the throne.

August 4, 2009 4:54 pm

I know I'm a bit late to this thread, but anyway, I wanted to chime in.

I got this book last year for Christmas, just as I was about to really get into comics. As a German comics certainly were part of my childhood, but never after that (I only read Disney comics btw, super hero comics aren't all that popular with kids (and esp. with parents) over here). Reading about this book on BoingBoing and knowing that I really want to start reading comics (Y: The Last Man pushed me over the edge whan I read the first issue online), I just blindly chose a few books and those were Laika and Three Shadows (both from First Second).

Long story short: This book made me realize how great a medium comics are. Yes, Y: The Last Man has a great story and really good art, but it's not even close to the beauty of Three Shadows. It's completely different actually and so Three Shadows showed me how much more comics can be and that made me incredibly excited about the medium and has basically fueled my enthusiasm for it ever since.

Now, one thing that I have loved about my copy is the production quality, thick paper, a wonderful cover and just generally a great look and feel of the book. What I really love are the "torn" pages, meaning that the right edge of most pages doesn't look clean cut, but torn off (in a straight line, but still with fuzzy edges). However I've never encountered anyone else mentioning that, is my copy actually a production error? This was one of the parts I absolutely loved about this book, it made it feel somewhat hand-made and raw, which fits the atmosphere of the story and especially the charcoal sketches perfectly.