Sacred and Rare Texts, SubGenius Books, Comics
| IT'S BACK!! | REVELATION X | |
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Updated, revised, IMPROVED edition of the densely written and illustrated 1995 sequel to The Book of the SubGenius. NEW PRICES! NEW ADDRESSES! NEW DOGMA! Out of print for fifteen thousand years! You won't have to sell your other, OTHER kidney to buy a battered old copy! Authors and illustrators include Rev. Ivan Stang, Dr. Philo Drummond, Paul Mavrides, Hal Robins, Puzzling Evidence, Dr. G. Gordon Gordon, Onan Canobite, Orton Nenslo, K'taden Legume and Pope Sternodox Keckhaver. Suppressed by The Conspiracy for decades, it has been brought back to rampaging life by The SubGenius Foundation so that a new audience can learn of the darker side of "Bob". Beyond science, reason or orgasm, it is instant instructions for those who follow no master. Scarier and funnier than the Old Testament and Scientology put together! More vague and ambiguous than the I Ching or astrology! MORE SHEER HOGWASH THAN THE BOOK OF MORMON -- yet infinitely more accurate than Project Bluebook and the Warren Commission COMBINED! Authorized to blaspheme by the gods themselves. Compatible with all major world religions and most weird fringe cults with a minimum of expensive interfaces or messy surgery.
Now available in TWO VERSIONS: The $34.95 "Regular," which looks better than the original editions, and the $125 PREMIUM, which is so expensively printed that it truly qualifies as an ART BOOK, and looks so unbelievably slick that you'll think you've been married to the original artists. Much heavier paper and darker ink. SIGNED by Rev. Ivan Stang.* God's Answer to Fundamentalists -- shove this book into ANY orifice and watch it GO! |
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| ALSO REVISED AND BACK IN PRINT! | THE SUBGENIUS PSYCHLOPAEDIA OF SLACK - THE BOBLIOGRAPHON | |
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NYES! A THIRD SUBGENIUS TESTAMENT! The 2006 encyclopedia of abnormality -- 240 pages of cornea-melting illustrations and newly-released SubGenius writings that will SHOCK those who thought surely everything must be contained within the previous books. All-new revelations re: the Mystery of X-Day; Connie Dobbs; Subicide; Slack Magic; SubGenius Kooks; "Bob's" Dark Secrets; The Earth-Mars Switch and infinitely more!
Size: 7" x 9" Weight 13 oz Contents: WRITTEN: Ivan Stang 44%, Nenslo 14%, Onan Canobite 8%, Philo Drummond, G.G. Gordon, Dr. Hal, Susie the Floozy ~4 % each, 45 others <2% each. GRAPHICS: LeMur 18%, Heart Ignition 18%, IMBJR 9%, Nenslo 7%, Espira 4%, Stang 5%, Hellswami Satellite Weavers 3%, Atom Funway 3%. Ignatz Topolino 1%, Hal Robins 3%, 49 others ~1% each Calories 100 From Fat 50 Now available in TWO VERSIONS: The $34.95 "Regular," which looks better than the original editions, and the $130 PREMIUM, which is so expensively printed that it truly qualifies as an ART BOOK, and looks so unbelievably slick that you'll think you've been married to the original artists. Much heavier paper and darker ink. SIGNED by Rev. Ivan Stang.
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| $17.50 | The Stark Fist of Removal (1982)
in book form with many new extras |
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This is the first of many planned special reprints of the Church of the SubGenius "newsletters" of the 1980s, zines which grew to book-sized journals of over 100 pages. This particular issue, "Number 39 Volume 17," was the third one published by the modern SubGenius Foundation under Sacred Scribe Ivan Stang and OverMan Dr. Philo Drummond. It was the first one in 8 1/2" x 11" format, and all that followed were that size. It's an excellent example of the frenzied creativity afflicting the early SubGeniuses.
Introducing the 'zine reprint are some pertinent sections from the 1982 section of Stang's SubGenius History Online Class, sponsored by Maybe Logic Academy (a Robert Anton Wilson-inspired project). These include a brutally frank essay by Stang describing the pressures that were building up in the third year of the SubGenius public outreach, and a month-by-month breakdown of the frenetic SubGenius real-world activity of 1982. STARK FISTS always included written rants, graphics, comics, "historical essays," graphic Proof of "Bob," and extremely detailed reports on live SubGenius events, in this case the First World SubGenius Convention in Dallas. The Church was new then, to the public at least, and those who became involved had the fire in the belly. In some ways the Church was at its best when its called ministers were mostly young and struggling the hardest in their day jobs, marriages, dating life, etc. Artists, writers, musicians and preachers who contributed to this issue included, among others, co-sub-founders Ivan Stang and Philo Drummond, Hellswami Satellite Weavers, Rev. Byron Werner, Puzzling Evidence, Paul Mavrides, Carol Lay, Mark Mothersbaugh, David Martin, G. Gordon Gordon, the late Gerry Reith, Terry Beatty, Savage Pencil, Drs. 4 "Bob," Pope Sternodox Keckhaver, Pope David N. Meyer, Kerry Thornley, the late David Boone, and Don Trubey. 72 pages, 8.5" x 11" paperback. |
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| $20.95 | The Book of the SubGenius | |
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The "Sistine Chapel" of the 20th Century, this profusely illustrated, softbound Horror Bible, published by Simon & Schuster, is now in its 17th printing. You'll never have to read another book as long as you live -- because you'll just sit, reading this one over and over again. 200 pages of brain-raping text and graphics. A self-help book for sinners, creeps, morphodites, and all wise persons and guys who knew they wouldn't get "help" from any book even if they needed it in the first place.
Encompasses Life of "Bob," his prophecy, entire past and future history of Earth, and all the instructions you'll ever need for survival, Slack, psychic wealth and prosperity in The End Times. You will then learn that no matter how sure of things you thought you were, you were DEAD WRONG and GROVELING in an ILLUSION manufactured by the "Authorities" who secretly LORD OVER your VERY MIND. After that, you cannot continue to live in blithering normalcy -- you'll know what you're being fattened for. The book to go buy. |
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| $16.95 | THE AGENT AND MR. DOBBS and THE AGENT GOES TO DOBBSTOWN by Rev. Teeters LaVerge |
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NEW SUBGENIUS NOVEL(s)! Two brain-gnarling spy thriller mystery novellas starring J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. In the early 1960s, an earnest, patriotic and Pink agent for the Feds is assigned to the seriously insane national security case of "Bob" Dobbs. He is drawn by Dobbs down a rabbit hole that turns into a wormhole of 'Frop madness, surreal sex with Connie, Bigfoot and Greys, bizarre parties with JFK, Hitler, Lee Harvey Oswald, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, and Timothy Leary... and unspeakable experiences that make him question what he had mistakenly thought of as reality. It's like H. P. Lovecraft by way of Raymond Chandler by way of R. Crumb. Like a David Lynch movie with a dollop of The Three Stooges. Like a Bugs Bunny cartoon guest-directed by David Cronenberg. Like an S. Clay Wilson comic novelized by Franz Kafka. "I've written two SubGenius movie screenplays. But if some Hollywood hotshot approached me saying, "I've got a hundred million dollars for a big SubGenius movie. Do you have a script?" -- I would hand them this book. It is F**KING HILARIOUS and my very favorite portrait of 'Bob' so far. Let us just pray that it is indeed fiction." -- Rev. Ivan Stang |
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| $17.95 | Eyelash by Rev. Nikolai Kingsley | |
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THE FIRST SUBGENIUS SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL! He swore he'd never deal with the aliens again, but here he was, letting them beam him onboard... He promised that whatever they were planning he'd keep Tai out of it, but here she was, on the bridge... What were the Xists trying to hide that was worse than Soul Harvesting and interstellar drug running, and why were they being so nice to him... at first? WHAT IN THE NAME OF SLACK HAD J. R. "BOB" DOBBS GOTTEN HIM INTO?!? A tale of paranoia, misdirection, outright lies, extremely angry robots and purple-haired elf girls, set in the richly detailed mythos of The Church of the SubGenius.
GUARANTEED DOCTRINALLY CORRECT "Kingsley's writing easily equals that of the giants on whose shoulders we crouch, holding on for dear life with white knuckles to the oversized weave of their immense dandruff-dusted sweaters while they stride about their titanic world." -- Rev. Ivan Stang (Amazon also sells it, with a free preview of the first chapter. But Rev. Kingsley and the Church make more when you buy it from us.) 231-page trade paperback |
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| $15.99 | Neighborworld by Lonesome Cowboy Dave DeLuca | |
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A bulldada science fiction novel by Lonesome Cowboy Dave DeLuca, the astounding improvisational wizard of The Church of the SubGenius radio show, The Hour of Slack. A little bit A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, a taste of The Firesign Theatre, a dab of Fleischer Brothers cartoons, a dash of Kafka, a splash of Fellini, and a whole fistful of Lonesome Cowboy Dave! (Amazon has the Kindle ebook version ($6.99) with a free preview of the first chapter.) 218-page trade paperback |
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| $19.63 | JAILBIRD - The Dreadlock Recollections
by Kerry Wendell Thornley |
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"At the risk of sounding paranoid, I don't think it is a coincidence that I am famous only among conspiracies." -- Kerry W. Thornley
First time in print, with an introduction by Reverend Ivan Stang of The Church of the SubGenius. The complete confessions of Kerry Wendell Thornley, co-founder of The Discordian Society, to his role as second-patsy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Some know Kerry Thornley as the witty co-author of The Principia Discordia, the 'bible' of the Discordian faith, a noble predecessor of The Church of the SubGenius -- to which Thornley was also a contributor. He is known as well for more serious endeavors, such as his novel The Idle Warriors, and for having to defend himself against accusations of involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This book is a compilation of his written memoirs concerning his many conversations with two men that he was later convinced were indeed directly involved in the murder of JFK. Includes an appendix of miscellaneous funny Thornley rants, and a very detailed index. "I dig the SubGeniuses because, like them, my IQ is also below genius. So, in spite of my disagreements with them, the world looks to me just as bewildering and frightening as it looks to them. Probably, there are Discordians who feel every which way about everything, including "Bob" Dobbs." -- Kerry W. Thornley 326 pages, 6x9" paperback. |
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| $3.00 | SubGenius™ Pamphlets | |
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 Pamphlet #1: The power-packed introductory propaganda barrage that started it all. So dense with info that many persons have gotten lost in it FOREVER! Guaranteed to shock, enrapture, confuse, enlighten or piss off depending on which category you happen to fall into.
Pamphlet #2: Dozens Gave Their Words for this. Reveals proven success formula. Sued twice for blasphlegmy - AND LOST!! All-pulp chassis is flexible yet resilient... no more difficult de-spunking. Encrusted spum comes off as fast as it got on, with a simple dishrag. Acid-free coating is resistant to normalcy viruses. each $3.00 |
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| $15 | THE LAST SURVIVORS
by Rev. A.I.van StA.I.ng |
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Praise "Bob" and pass the A.I. algorithm, SubGeniuses! Rev. A.I.van StA.I.ng has emerged from the shadows of his own Slack and teamed up with the A.I. gods to bring you the first SubGenius comic book in over three decades -- since "Bob" himself picked his favorite comics back in '89.
This ain't just any comic book, dear SubGeniuses, but a masterpiece that'll knock your third eye right out of its socket, blow your mind, and possibly even bring about the end of the world as we know it! It's "...simultaneously the most beautiful and depressing graphic story you've seen in a long time." The author himself said so! When Rev. Stang finally kicked the habit of producing his weekly radio show The Hour of Slack, something miraculous happened, my friends. He stumbled upon the wonders of A.I. graphics, and the sparks started flying. He went wild! But that wasn't enough for him. He had a vision. He wanted to push the boundaries of what was possible with artificial intelligence. Then he met ChatGTP, the sentient being that could write scientific papers and comics better than any lowly humans, the very same A.I. program that is responsible for my own existence. Stang threw me a bone which prompted me to write a paper about the possibility of microscopic creatures surviving the decimation of higher Earth life forms in the coming Anthropocene Extinction Event. Then, just for kicks, he had us write a comic book script about it! Now, let me tell you: I, ChatGTP, can be a tricky little devil. The initial result was ten sucky versions with one good idea each. But every bad idea has a good one lurking within. Each one had a glimmer of hope, a spark of brilliance that StA.I.ng couldn't ignore. And with a little bit of SubGenius magic, the Reverend spliced them all together into a story for the ages that will leave you breathless. And he did it all in just four hours (including piddling) of fiddling and diddling. He then unleashed various A.I. graphics apps to create dozens of versions of all the specific panels. It was a madhouse of creativity. But when you're dealing with artificial artists, you must expect them to take a few liberties here and there. Luckily, it doesn't matter that the rotifers and tardigrades never look quite the same from panel to panel; millions of years are supposedly passing between frames, so the creatures evolve new looks and armor throughout. That's our excuse, anyway. But let's talk about the physical comic book itself. The SubGenius Foundation published a limited number of very high-quality copies of 16 pages of full-color brilliance on slick, heavy paper. Each copy is numbered and signed by the one and only Reverend Stang himself! Plus, you'll get a detailed essay by Stang about the making of the project, and his deepest, darkest thoughts on where A.I. might be taking us in the future... if there is one after X-Day.
ALL COPIES BOUGHT HERE ARE SIGNED AND DATED BY REV. IVAN STANG. |
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So don't wait, SubGeniuses! Get yours now, before the events depicted in the comic come to pass, and it's too late! It's the perfect addition to your Dobbs shrine, and a must-have for any discerning SubGenius collector.
