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Great one shots, small-press, stuff you found in some random fashion and always wondered if there was more like it.

I have "Longshot Comics" which is a long long story told with about 100 square frames on each page with characters represented by dots, the conceit being (as illustrated on the cover) that if you read it with a magnifying glass you really would see more detail

Evan Dorkin's Scissors Paper Stone - from some anthology or another, just great Evan Dorkin cartooniness, a single side escalating scissors paper stone, past scissors cuts paper, through things like "rock uses media influence to demonise paper" and "scissors commands army of followers to destroy rock"

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss Slacker Comics.

The Dorkin stuff may have ended up in Dork! which now has two collected volumes. I got the impression most of everything that wasn't comic-sized (like Kid Blastoff! which I think never got beyond #1) ended up there.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Amazing Screw-On Head" by Mike Mignola. Completely goofy story and completely funny.

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

There should have been another issue of Monica's Story, by Kochalka and Tom Hart (i think), it was for the Comic Book Legal Defence Fund.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw the Rock, Scissors, Paper thing! I was in the comic book store yesterday and starting paging through some Dork! collections specifically to find it. Brilliant.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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