Ever since I learned about this on the internet and read its excerpt in the December 2009 issue of Playboy, I tried to search for its digital version. As luck would have it, I found the high quality scans of "Jojo" (he is also the scanner of the Walt Disney's Christmas Classics Vol. 1 Hardcover I had posted earlier) and here we are. Playboy bills it as "the world's most endearingly perverted storyteller's take" on the first book of the Bible, all 50 chapters of it. Considering the nature of R. Crumb's work (honestly and totally irreverent) and his stature (he is one of pioneers of underground comics gone mainstream) and considering the subject of his illustrations, I must say I do not intend to offend delicate and/or religious sensitivities; my only purpose is to present--and share--here what surely is a groundbreaking and landmark work in comic art. Oh, and please read R. Crumb's Introduction found in page 9 of this CBR--it's priceless. MATURE READERS.

Starting with this issue, IDW introduces what would be the second volume and actually the first true ongoing title of its highly successful comic book series, Transformers. The storyline, set sometime in the near future, still follows the continuity and chronology IDW established with its reboot of the franchise through long-time writer Simon Furman when it was awarded the licensing rights by toy company Hasbro in 2005. In library terms, this new ongoing first issue would be issue #79 for IDW Publishing. And what a great way to start the new ongoing series, too!

Neil Gaiman started it: an alternate Marvel universe from another timeline where beloved characters are reimagined in different settings, with new versions of their costumes and maybe giving them some old-time speech patterns. Given that limitation, writer Jeff Parker actually makes this issue enjoyable, with Peter Parquagh, known as the Spider due to the powers he gained from a spider bite (presumably not one dosed with radiation or genetically engineered), making a voyage across the Atlantic (on the May Flower!), accompanying the criminal Norman Osborne to England for trial (for killing Peter's girlfriend Virginia Dare, the 1602 version of Gwen Stacey). Jeff Parker shows how he can work underneath all the 17th century constraints and Ramon Rosana's artwork makes everything comes to life.