The Boring Issue

by Brian Brooks, Rob Reger, Jessica Gruner, et al.

Book Overview

For many years, pop culture cultists have revered and adored a brooding girl named Emily the Strange. Nobody knows much about the young girl with a porcelain face and huge eyes framed by bangs, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593073232
• ISBN13: 9781593073237
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.6" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

Excellent condition

This comic book came to me in almost new condition. One page was slightly ripped at the top side, but I have no problems otherwise. I highly recommend buying this product for any Emily fans.

More little girls should be so strange

OK. She's strange. You heard that part. That means people look at her and don't like what they see. I see a young lady who is no slave to fashion, except her own. She know that boredom is a self-inflicted injury, and "Bored to Death" shows that she knows how to stop it. She is patient, as we see in "Grow'n Up." She is not just creative, but has control of the creative process, as shown in "13 More Uses for Wire Hangers" and "Head in the Clouds." She has mastery of many expressive media, including gardening, written and spoken word, wire sculpture, culinary arts, taxidermy, and fine hallucinogens - or whatever is in that Strange Sauce. Emily, I wish all power to you and to your imagination. And to your legal defense team, to the mental health workers that have not yet crumpled, and to the survivors among your cohort. They will each remember you to their dying day. And on it, no matter how distant or horrific. And possibly past it. //wiredweird PS: The art here is a bit raw: black and white with red, solid and saturated, with a little grey or brown to soften some parts - not that raw is a bad thing. It's what you might have seen if Edward Gorey or Gomez Addams had ever opened that last closet door and spilled the ketchup. It is also (and I don't like this part) fairly blatant in its attempts to scrape a few extra drachmae out tweenage fanclubbers. The rest is good, in a twisted but healthy appeal to the otherwise disaffected in our world, and lord knows our world makes bunches of them.

"Chairman of the Bored"

Emily the Strange finally has her own comic book series! After years of enjoying excellent merchandise revolving around Emily and her four kitties, yet mediocre books, Cosmic Debris and Dark Horse Comics have finally put out the beginnings of a decent comic book series inviting those willing into Emily's strange world. Issue 1, "the Boring Issue," describes Emily's boredom and what she does with such time on her hands. With Miles, Mystery, Nee Chee, and Sabbath in tow, Emily sets out to find the cure for the common doldrums by doing things such as building odd devices, distributing strange sauce to her classmates, and playing croquet in a graveyard. Also included in this volume is a twisted take on Cinderella, in Emily's Scarytale Theater. The artwork found herein is just as one would expect if you're at all familiar with any other Emily products, with lots of intriguing detail. The entire comic is done in black, white, gray, and red (with the occasional pink thrown in for good measure). Also included are two pages of Emily stickers. My only complaint is that the comic is quite short, somewhat disjointed, and Emily's sarcastic, dry, witty comments seem kept to a minimum. However, that is the nature of comic books, as well as previous entries to Emily's short book collection. The artwork alone is still worth the cover price.