I imagine Mona is a terrible person with whom to play whatever board game this is. She is always willing to play, though!
Okay, so here’s some news: Johan Harstad’s spectacular Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? is at last available in paperback! This was one of the first books I ever edited while working at my previous job and Johan is a fantastic individual that all America is destined to be talking about, as he is talked about in his native land of grimmest Norway! To show you how good this book is, here’s a paragraph selected and retyped pretty much at random from my old HC copy:
It was quiet for a moment and we sat and turned the thought over, and neither of us knew if it was true, or if it was just something one said: that it helps to be loved. NN was breathing evenly and the clock hands moved on undisturbed, second by second, I thought about outer space, that if I were to go now, for example, to the middle of the Milky Way, at the speed of light, it would take twenty years for me to arrive, while for NN, lying in her bed, 30,000 years would pass before I returned. But nobody can travel that fast.
That’s the way I’d think when I was sad.
It was Einstein who made sure we’d never travel too far from each other.
It is the story of a depressive gardener who, having lost his job, girlfriend, and most of the good things in his life in one fell series of events, agrees to be the sound man for a struggling band from Stavanger on a tour date in the Faroe Islands. After setting sail, he wakes up in the middle of a road with a pocket full of money, no recollection of how he got there, and a truck bearing down on him. Inside the truck is a man named Havstein with an offer that will change young Mattias’s life. SPOILER: It ends with a lot of people with no experience building a boat! Read Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?.
That’s it! Should be a new comic Tuesday. I am returning to “the swing of things.”