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Barry Ween 4.0

 
 
Stone Mirror
01:38 / 18.06.02
Well, the fourth through sixth issues of the third volume of The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius are out in trade paperback--finally! I picked up my copy of this morning and devoured it right away.

For those of you not in the know, Barry Ween is the smartest person on the planet, and he's only ten. He estimates his IQ at 350 (and rising). According to my calculations, at the rate my intelligence is increasing, I should be clinically insane by the time I'm twenty-one...

Barry Ween is just about the funniest comic I've come across in years. The dialog is just plain hilarious. In the first volume, Barry manages to open a rift in the time-space continuum in his basement, regress his dad to a Neanderthal, turn his best friend into a dinosaur and foil and gang of art thieves.

Check Barry out.



Show of hands--who built a wallet sized hydrogen bomb yesterday and bouyed the Eastern European economy by covertly disrupting a secret trade embargo? Right! Just me!
 
 
Margin Walker
04:02 / 18.06.02
Yeah, pretty much everything Oni Press puts out is choice. I've been meaning to check this out for awhile, but for some reason, I haven't. BTW, does the character Ween remind anyone else of Brainchild from The Tick (sans see-thru cranial dome, of course)?
 
 
DaveBCooper
09:38 / 18.06.02
Yup, Barry’s a lot of fun. Done with such gusto that you just get carried along with it.

If you want to check it out without spending money, I think that Oni have the first issue (or at least some of it) on their website for your downloading pleasure. Or at least they did have in the past. Dunno if they still do.

How unhelpful (if well-intentioned) am I ? No, don’t answer that…

DBC
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
11:23 / 18.06.02
Barry Ween rocks, I've got the second collection which I think Oni Press managed to advertise without at any time mentioning what it was.

But what is his friend actually called?
 
 
invisible_al
11:36 / 18.06.02
You talking about Jeremey or Sarah?

I caught this when the comics came out, this is the 2nd half of the monkey tales right?

It is a righteous comic with much profanity and I love it dearly.
Have a look at the first page with Jeremey getting his ass kicked on monkey fighter 2002 and his 'apes rule' rant , its brill.
 
 
Stone Mirror
20:53 / 18.06.02
Yes, this volume is the second half (i.e. issues 4, 5 and 6) of the "Monkey Tales" series.

Barry's Oreo-loving, potty-mouthed male friend is "Jeremy Ramirez", and his "love interest" is "Sara Tan".

I was kind of bummed that Roxie, the ex-sasquatch girl, didn't appear in this volume.
 
  
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