- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey (Jun 23 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345510925
- ISBN-13: 978-0345510921
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 1.2 x 20.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,184,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“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
“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
“You don’t often hear the phrase ‘epic comedy,’ but that’s the perfect description of Goats. Jonathan Rosenberg is the Tolkien of interdimensional corn lesbians.”—Lore Sjöberg, co-founder of the Brunching Shuttlecocks
“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, Hugo Award—winning author of Halting State
“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, BoingBoing.net
“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
“You don’t often hear the phrase ‘epic comedy,’ but that’s the perfect description of Goats. Jonathan Rosenberg is the Tolkien of interdimensional corn lesbians.”—Lore Sjöberg, co-founder of the Brunching Shuttlecocks
“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, Hugo Award—winning author of Halting State
“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, BoingBoing.net
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It’s not as if one decides to wake up one day, argue existentialism with livestock, and fly a spaceship to the center of the galaxy to meet, greet–and eat–God. It just sort of happens. At least it does in the world of Goats, the cult-hit webcomic wherein a clutch of brave if baffled barflies (including humans, chickens, and a cyborg goldfish) hit the interdimensional bricks to save the multiverse from certain doom kicked off by a cosmic computer glitch. You can’t make this stuff up–unless you’re one of the monkeys tapping on infinite typewriters who controls all reality. You’ll see. . . .
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Something To Aspire To, Sep 12 2009
By CEGANJR - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Goats Infinite Typewriters (Paperback)
As a webcomic creator myself I am in awe of the comic genius that is Goats Infinite Typewriters. Nothing is out of bounds as Jonathan Rosenberg's off the wall humor catches you off guard time and again. He sets you up for the expected joke and then comes out of nowhere with a punchline that, more times than not, leaves you laughing out loud. Infinite Typewriters comes as close to perfect as you can expect from a gag strip.If you are are looking for a comic strip that has the edge that traditional newspaper strips lost long ago this is your book. If you are an aspiring comic strip creator and want to see how it is done right pick up this book. And if you are just need of a good laugh you'll be sure to find it in Goats: Infinite Typewriters.
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Infinite Hilarity, Oct 21 2009
By B Morgan Joy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Goats Infinite Typewriters (Paperback)
Goats is a webcomic powered by caffeine, delight, madness, and a lot of monkeys with great typing skills--usually all at once. It is the first comic I recommend to those with a penchant for science fiction or the strange-but-curiously-sensible strain of logic that places Hell just off the New Jersey Turnpike.Jonathan Rosenberg is the kind of Funny Guy who appeals to almost everyone, because he touches a little of everything. If Monty Python needed to save the multiverse, their hilarious adventures might look a little like those sprung (fully formed?) from the mind of Jon Rosenberg. And let me tell you, this man can write. Goats has been happening for more than twelve years, often five days a week. That is a lot of ideas. That is a lot of zaniness to keep in (relative) order.
Bottom line: I wish I lived in Rosenberg's multiverse (buy this book).
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