Sluggy Freelance Megatome 01: Born of Nifty
Link to Sluggy Freelance web comic.
The early days of Sluggy Freelance were wild and woolly, and this book collects the earliest of the early days. These cartoons were published in the late 90s and are things of beauty.
I followed the strip at that time, and read almost all of the strips in this book online as they were published. That was a great experience, particularly because I had some friends with which to enthuse about the comic. Early Sluggy was magical.
Somewhere along the line, the magic wore off. We all stopped reading Sluggy at one point or another. And revisiting these strips was a bit of a let-down after they'd been built up in my memory.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading the strips and I'm glad I bought the book, even at its outrageous price.
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