This auction is now closed.
The bookcase purge for charity continues! You can see a complete list of all auctions here, in chronological order starting with the latest, here. Full auction details are included at the end of the article, but to bring the new folks up to speed real quick:
Every weekday until Friday, June 5th, we publish a new Shelf Bound article announcing a bind or bound set up for auction.
Each bind auction’s bidding starts when its article is published and ends 72 hours later, so today’s auction will close at 4 PM EST on May 23, 2020.
Bids must be posted in an item’s comment section to be considered for that item; highest bid posted before close of auction wins.
Bids from outside the U.S. are welcome, although shipping outside the U.S. may incur additional fee. Bids posted in currencies other than US dollars will be valued at their USD equivalent.
The winning bidder emails me (greg at multiversity comics dot com) to verify donation particulars, then makes the donation and send me verification.
I send out the bind.
Everyone wins.
30 weekdays. 34 binds. All proceeds going to charity. Sound good? Let’s get to it!
LAZARUS BY RUCKA & LARK
Written by: Greg Rucka
Drawn by: Michael Lark
Inked by: Michael Lark, Tyler Boss
Colored by: Santi Arcas
Lettered by: Jodi Wynne, Michael LarkPublished by: Image Comics
Collecting:
- Lazarus #1-21 (Jul 2013 – Dec 2015)
- Lazarus: Carlyle Sourcebook OS (Apr 2016)
Additional Material: None
Bind Details:
- Oversewn binding
- Canvas Arrestox cover material
- Black/white headbands
- White endpapers
- Page edges trimmed
Signatures: Rucka
Sketches: None
Bound by: Herring & Robinson Bindery.
Why am I still reading this comic?
I know why I *started* reading it. Lark and Rucka are two top-of-their-game talents doing a creator-owned book at a publisher built to give creators the latitude to tell their story their way. Plus, they had already shown their storytelling synchronicity working together on Gotham Central. Throw in worldbuilder & Rucka-secret-design-weapon Eric Trautmann and set things in a high-tech, military-focused future with a strong female lead and I literally don’t know how anyone could think this book wouldn’t be awesome. Sure, that high-tech future is really a dystopian feudal society ruled by sixteen ‘families’ lording over 99% of the remaining human population termed “Waste”, but it’s still escapist entertainment, right?
Entertainment? Absolutely. Escapist? Not really. Because the appeal of a Rucka and Lark series is that they will do the homework to ground it in as much reality as possible. Lazarus was more plausible than not when it debuted in 2013 and time has shown the series become more prescient, not less. What got dismissed with uneasy chuckles seven years ago isn’t going away as easily now.
Why would I keep reading about a dystopia when it feels like I’m living in one? Because it’s just that good of a comic.
And this collection was put together from the original single issues of said comic, so it has all the letters pages and backmatter and commentary from Greg that ran in those issues and didn’t make the transition over to the (otherwise fantastic) TPBs and hardcovers.
So you COULD take the time & effort to track down the issues and turn them into your own book via a binder using the techniques & approaches we cover every month in Shelf Bound . . .
And get it signed TWICE by Rucka (this includes a few variant covers for issue 1, two of which were signed by him at various points before I combined them all in this book) . . .
OR
you could bid on the bind we’re auctioning today, get the benefit of someone else doing all that work for you, AND do some good for the comics community we all love in the process!
Starting Bid: $25
Auction Ends: May 23, 2020 at 4 pm
Proceeds Benefit: The Hero Initiative
AUCTION FINE PRINT
- This auction ends 72 hours after the date & time of this article’s posting. Continued below
- Bids MUST be placed as comments below to be valid.
- Bids order is set by the timestamp given by Disqus. I subscribe to every comment section and receive an email notification simultaneous to the posting of every new comment. That email’s timestamp is what I use to determine bid order & the final bid cutoff time.
- Bids placed anywhere other than the auction article’s comment section (i.e. replying to the announcement tweet) will be ignored.
- Bids posted in currencies other than US dollars will be valued at their USD equivalent.
- Highest bid posted before the end of the auction wins. The winning bidder has 24 hours to contact me via twitter or email (see below) to set up payment. If contact is not made in this timeframe, the winning bid is invalidated and the next highest bid will be the winner.
- Winning bidder will make the donation in the amount of the winning bid to the agreed-upon charity. Upon successful donation and receipt of receipt (hehe) by me, the bind will be mailed out via Media Mail on the following Saturday unless an alternate schedule is agreed upon by all parties.
- Feel free to post any additional questions you may have prior to the end of the auction below; I will do my best to answer them ASAP. Additional and/or specific pictures of the bind are available on request.
- Thanks in advance to anyone bidding on these binds. Good luck!
