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VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W) Carol Lay & Various (A) Mike Kazaleh & Various (CA) Jason Ho, Mike Rote In the first of Bongo Comics' soon to be legendary Simpson Comics One-Shot Wonders, Ralph Wiggum takes center stage. In his first solo outing, Ralph has a day off of school, is left home alone, and becomes a role model to a new kid in town. Add in some short features by Sergio Aragonés and watch the chaos ensue! Date Available: 02/29/2012 BONUS REVIEW by Matt Streets  The noted French poststructural theorist Michel Foucault once remarked: “It is the connection of desire to reality (and not its retreat into the forms of representation) that possess revolutionary force.” When this concept is applied to the actions of Ralph Wiggum, we are able to see the world through his eyes, and see that this newly created universe is not only Wiggum’s, but ours as well. The second tale of this issue, the sublimely brilliant “Ralph Wiggum’s Day Off”, shows Ralph re-shaping the universe to his subjective means, where he decides to take a stroll around town and be “in the future”. In a stunning scene set in an art gallery, Ralph becomes a piece of performance art, and then exclaims, “If I’m happy in the future, I must be in it all the time!” Is this perpetual denial of a present state of existence an indulgence of Freud’s “pleasure principle”, or simply Ralph’s way of avoiding the death of his own ego? Later, he helps a man to not commit suicide (though seems disturbingly indifferent as to the outcome), and finally meets his father who “drove out of the TV box” to take him home. Throughout this tale, adults and passerby seem not to hear the “nonsense” coming out of Ralph, which seems to implicate us, the reader, in this world-shaping apparatus of Ralph’s mind, a subtle manner in which to break the third (and even the fourth?) wall. It remains to be seen if there are going to be any future issues, but this certainly seems poised to rock the very foundations of the comic world, and of reality itself. 10 out of 10 Grahams VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W) Carol Lay & Various (A) Mike Kazaleh & Various (CA) Jason Ho, Mike Rote In the first of Bongo Comics' soon to be legendary Simpson Comics One-Shot Wonders, Ralph Wiggum takes center stage. In his first solo outing, Ralph has a day off of school, is left home alone, and becomes a role model to a new kid in town. Add in some short features by Sergio Aragonés and watch the chaos ensue! Date Available: 02/29/2012 BONUS REVIEW by Matt Streets The noted French poststructural theorist Michel Foucault once remarked: “It is the connection of desire to reality (and not its retreat into the forms of representation) that possess revolutionary force.” When this concept is applied to the actions of Ralph Wiggum, we are able to see the world through his eyes, and see that this newly created universe is not only Wiggum’s, but ours as well. The second tale of this issue, the sublimely brilliant “Ralph Wiggum’s Day Off”, shows Ralph re-shaping the universe to his subjective means, where he decides to take a stroll around town and be “in the future”. In a stunning scene set in an art gallery, Ralph becomes a piece of performance art, and then exclaims, “If I’m happy in the future, I must be in it all the time!” Is this perpetual denial of a present state of existence an indulgence of Freud’s “pleasure principle”, or simply Ralph’s way of avoiding the death of his own ego? Later, he helps a man to not commit suicide (though seems disturbingly indifferent as to the outcome), and finally meets his father who “drove out of the TV box” to take him home. Throughout this tale, adults and passerby seem not to hear the “nonsense” coming out of Ralph, which seems to implicate us, the reader, in this world-shaping apparatus of Ralph’s mind, a subtle manner in which to break the third (and even the fourth?) wall. It remains to be seen if there are going to be any future issues, but this certainly seems poised to rock the very foundations of the comic world, and of reality itself. 10 out of 10 Grahams Customers who bought this, also bought:
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