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 CONCEPCIÓNConnie is sad. She has a right to be sad though. It seems as if she is losing all the people around her who mattered most. But when she seeks comfort by delving deeper into the one thing that's gotten her through all the rough moments of the past sixty years, her faith, she finds that the answers aren't so black and white as the bible stories of her childhood.
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"This book beautifully addresses a question I had over the past summer: how many religious people have actually read the whole Bible? ... I thought it was fantastic, as I always love seeing religion as a whole intelligently discussed like this." -Kevin Bramer • Optical Sloth PREVIEW READ THE FREE WEBCOMIC VERSION ON FLICKR. • Click Here to view Set • Click Here to subscribe to Feed AVAILIABLE IN-STORE AT Chicago Comics • Quimby's |
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 Victims at the End of the World is the tale of Algernon, a furry doll in his early twenties who lives in the city, works in a used record store, frequents the local Starbuckses and spends his time obsessing over his friends and their skewed relationships, trying his best to be the person everyone (who counts) thinks he should be as he struggles with the conflicts of life and death, love and friendship and heroes and victims.
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2007 Howard E. Day Memorial Prize Finalist! "It's very accomplished material in the 'Lives of Quiet Desperation' category with a multi-character cast that he manages to keep tightly reined in even as he goes to town with the narrator's introspection. A very difficult balancing act and I was very impressed." -Dave Sim • davesim.blogspot.com  LOOKING FOR THIS COVER?This is the cover of the 2007 limited edition trade paperback which is sold out online but may still be availiable in Chicago at: Chicago Comics • Quimby's Comix Revolution The new edition for sale online contains the exact same story.
READ the Complete Graphic Novella FREE: Adobe PDF 15 MB FOR MATURE READERS The audiobook version of Victims... has been produced as an 11 episode podcast read by myself and set against the backdrop of one-man acoustic rock band Josh Woodward's music provided by the Podshow Podsafe Music Network.
• Episode 1: All Out Of Thread - 08:47
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