The Khollected Khaki Shorts:The Khream Of Issues 1-28!
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I had to use one of those internet archive gizmos to find this from 2011 when CBO was on WordPress and CBO on Blogger was not even a glint in the eye:
"My Khaki Shorts Are Wet With Tears
Yes, as though the loss of the British Empire wasn’t bad enough. I loved the British Empire and the films it used to show.
Now, at the end of the day, we see the lowering of the Khaki Shorts on Miller Mansion as, after 12 decades (years actually) the big withdrawl takes place. They say it is because it’s hard to sustain the same quality after all these years but I think the truth is so obvious -look at the militaristic editorial.
Khaki Shorts was comics’ Afghanistan. Creators fell and those who took their place suffered the mental trauma or took some form of relief via narcotics. Those who could not adjust…well, we salute them. We have to remember of all those who fell in the campaign:
Curt Sibling who threw himself on a triple MacAngus 20lb burger before it exploded.
Niel Bratchpiece who succumbed to a road-side silage bomb.
Larned Justin who single-handedly held off a health food luncheon buffet.
A. J. Smith decapitated as a pressurised cola can exploded.
The horror will always be with us. When will this unelected government withdraw from an illegal war costing us our young men and women? When will I write something sensible?? Let’s face it, that ain’t gonna happen!
Khaki Shorts is dead! Long Live Khaki Shorts!!!
Just what are these new tablets?
Anyway, its a tour de force as Khaki Shorts goes out with a bang. But I doubt it is the end. Atomic vanished and from that arose Khaki Shorts. So what will rise out of Khaki Shorts??
I have no idea but I will be keeping a nose plug handy in case!
Buy this historical last issue -even if the value of this issue does not increase in the next twenty years the Mayans predicted that this edition is the only thing that will save you from 2012!!!
BUY!"
In 2011 I was delusional enough to believe that, in some form, Khaki Shorts would. It has. I think it was definitely the new meds. ahem.
Anyway, Rob Miller enclosed a £5 as a bribe so I'd best get on with this. In this collected edition you will find such strips as Elexender Browne -When He's Up He's Up But When He's Down He's Down, Life I Shit, Race For The Sun, Apocalypse Now and Then (Neil Bratchpiece, Boy Mindless (A. J. Smith), E Is For Entertainment?, A Cat And A Cartoonist (Larned Justin) and, naturally, strips by Miller, himself.
As with the single issue Khaki Shorts the thing that really p***ed me off is that not all the work is credited. Creators MUST credit strips with their names. Rob Miller is like me, no friends, so he does not mind a bit of frustrated reviewer anger :-)
What I liked is that some of these strips I never saw. Others I have but I still chuckled along with them. And that is a nice cover. I think the idea of taking the best from 28 issues and putting them into a trade is a good idea. Hopefully it should encourage more buyers -the ones that can't be bothered with single issues or who prefer books to go on their shelves.
I am glad that Rob and Adam are still going and, perhaps, a "Gold Top Khream Khollection" next? Whatever, I do recommend this and it's good for a laugh and solid grass roots Small Press.
I shall end by writing BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY!
Now, at the end of the day, we see the lowering of the Khaki Shorts on Miller Mansion as, after 12 decades (years actually) the big withdrawl takes place. They say it is because it’s hard to sustain the same quality after all these years but I think the truth is so obvious -look at the militaristic editorial.
Khaki Shorts was comics’ Afghanistan. Creators fell and those who took their place suffered the mental trauma or took some form of relief via narcotics. Those who could not adjust…well, we salute them. We have to remember of all those who fell in the campaign:
Curt Sibling who threw himself on a triple MacAngus 20lb burger before it exploded.
Niel Bratchpiece who succumbed to a road-side silage bomb.
Larned Justin who single-handedly held off a health food luncheon buffet.
A. J. Smith decapitated as a pressurised cola can exploded.
The horror will always be with us. When will this unelected government withdraw from an illegal war costing us our young men and women? When will I write something sensible?? Let’s face it, that ain’t gonna happen!
Khaki Shorts is dead! Long Live Khaki Shorts!!!
Just what are these new tablets?
Anyway, its a tour de force as Khaki Shorts goes out with a bang. But I doubt it is the end. Atomic vanished and from that arose Khaki Shorts. So what will rise out of Khaki Shorts??
I have no idea but I will be keeping a nose plug handy in case!
Buy this historical last issue -even if the value of this issue does not increase in the next twenty years the Mayans predicted that this edition is the only thing that will save you from 2012!!!
BUY!"
In 2011 I was delusional enough to believe that, in some form, Khaki Shorts would. It has. I think it was definitely the new meds. ahem.
Anyway, Rob Miller enclosed a £5 as a bribe so I'd best get on with this. In this collected edition you will find such strips as Elexender Browne -When He's Up He's Up But When He's Down He's Down, Life I Shit, Race For The Sun, Apocalypse Now and Then (Neil Bratchpiece, Boy Mindless (A. J. Smith), E Is For Entertainment?, A Cat And A Cartoonist (Larned Justin) and, naturally, strips by Miller, himself.
As with the single issue Khaki Shorts the thing that really p***ed me off is that not all the work is credited. Creators MUST credit strips with their names. Rob Miller is like me, no friends, so he does not mind a bit of frustrated reviewer anger :-)
What I liked is that some of these strips I never saw. Others I have but I still chuckled along with them. And that is a nice cover. I think the idea of taking the best from 28 issues and putting them into a trade is a good idea. Hopefully it should encourage more buyers -the ones that can't be bothered with single issues or who prefer books to go on their shelves.
I am glad that Rob and Adam are still going and, perhaps, a "Gold Top Khream Khollection" next? Whatever, I do recommend this and it's good for a laugh and solid grass roots Small Press.
I shall end by writing BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY!
They sent me a copy for my birthday, possibly the best book I've read this year, so far, yes!
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