Just Us, We Caught The Bus

The Ventures of Zimmerman, written by Tony Hendra and Sean Kelly and drawn by Neal Adams, appeared in the October 1972 issue of National Lampoon.

Partly an indictment of selling out, partly a collection of Jewish/Zionist stereotypes, it was followed up a few years later by Son O' God Meets Zimmerman, whose cliffhanger ending was never resolved (Mercifully, unsurprisingly, or both, you be the judge.).

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Name: Layne V.
Born: 1979.
Nationality: Canadian.
Education: High school diploma.
Work History: Altar boy, babysitter, farm hand, grocery stockboy, greasy spoon dishwasher, farm hand redux, restaurant host, pornography and adult novelty store clerk, restaurant manager, baker, maintenance man.

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Reads, 2008

• 100 Bullets #87 – 98, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso 8/10
• The Walking Dead #46 – 56, by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, 7/10
• A Child’s Life and Other Stories, by Phoebe Gloeckner 4/10
• Promethea Vols. 1-5, by Alan Moore and JH Williams 8/10
• America’s Best Comics, by Alan Moore and Many, Many Others 7/10
• Cat’s Eye, by Margaret Atwood 8/10
• Essex County Vol. 2: Ghost Stories, by Jeff Lemire 8/10
• Ode To Kirihito, by Osamu Tezuka 8/10
• The Mammoth Book of The Best Crime Comics, edited by Paul Gravett 8/10
• Too Cool To Be Forgotten, by Alex Robinson 7/10
• The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition, by Stephen King 7/10
• Devlin Waugh: Swimming in Blood, by John Smith, Sean Phillips, Siku and Michael Gaydos 7/10
• Streets of Glory #1-6, by Garth Ennis and Mike Wolfer 2/10
• Back to Brooklyn #2, by Garth Ennis, Jimmy Palmiottie, and Mihalio Vukelic 3/10
• Leaving St. Urbain, by Reinhold Kramer 8/10
• The Dogs of Riga, by Henning Mankell 6/10
• Earth X #1-13, by Jim Krueger, John Paul Leon, and Alex Ross 2/10
• Skreemer #1-6, by Peter Milligan, Brett Ewins, and Steve Dillon 3/10
• Heart of Empire: The Legacy of Luther Arkwright, by Bryan Talbot 7/10
• Cosmic Odyssey, by Jim Starlin and Mike Mignola 5/10
• Crossed #1, by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows 7/10
• Animal Man, Vol. 1, by Grant Morrison, Chas Truog, and Tom Grummett 8/10
• Paul Auster’s City of Glass, by Paul Karasnik and David Mazzucchelli 8/10
• Northwest Passage, by Scott Chantler 7/10
• Stagger Lee, by Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix 7/10
• Civilwarland in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella, by George Saunders 8/10
• Back to Brooklyn #1, by Garth Ennis, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Mihailio Vukelic 6/10
• Fights of Our Lives: Elections, Leadership, and the Making of Canada, by John Duffy 7/10
• Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller, Vol. 2, by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson 8/10
• Daredevil: Born Again, by Frank Miller and David Mazuchelli 8/10
• All Star Superman #1 – 12, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely 9/10
• The Dark Knight Strikes Again #1-3, by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley 7/10
• Skin, by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy 5/10
• Top 10: The Forty-Niners, by Alan Moore and Gene Ha 7/10
• Hard Boiled #1-3, by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow 6/10
• Enigma #1-8, by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo 9/10
• Secret Six #1, Gail Simone, Nicola Scott and Doug Hazlewood 7/10
• The War Room: Political Strategies For Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants To Win, by Warren Kinsella 7/10
• The Filth, by Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, and Gary Erskine 8/10
• Godland, Vol. 1: Hello, Cosmic!, by Joe Casey and Tom Scioli 5/10
• Kirby: King of Comics, by Mark Evanier 7/10
• Buried Child, by Sam Shepard 8/10
• It’s a Bird…, by Steven T. Seagel and Teddy Kristiansen 7/10
• Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 To Abu Ghraib, by Seymour M. Hersh 8/10
• Foul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s EC Comics, by Grant Geissman 8/10
• Comic Book Comics #1 – 2, by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey 6/10
• Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, by Peter Gay 6/10
• Final Crisis #1 – 5, by Grant Morrison and JG Jones 6/10
• Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, by Douglas Wolk 7/10
• The Best American Comics 2007, edited by Chris Ware and Anne Moore 7/10
• Chris Ware, by Daniel Raeburn 5/10
• A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery, by E. Benjamin Skinner 7/10
• Ambush Bug: Year None #1, by Keith Giffen, Robert Loren Fleming, and Al Milgrom 8/10
• Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Volume 1, by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta 7/10
• Outer Dark, by Cormac McCarthy 6/10
• I Killed Adolf Hitler, by Jason 8/10
• The Last Musketeer, by Jason 7/10
• Sleepwalk and Other Stories, by Adrian Tomine 3/10
• Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks 7/10
• Hellblazer: Rake At The Gates of Hell, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon 7/10
• Hellblazer: Stations of the Cross, by Mike Carey, Leonardo Manco, Chris Brunner, Marcelo Frustin, and Steve Dillon 6/10
• Wasteland #1-19, by Antony Johnson and Christopher Mitten 7/10
• Nellie McClung, by Charlotte Grey 6/10
• Alice in Sunderland, by Bryan Talbot 9/10
• 5 Is The Perfect Number, by Igort 7/10
• Point Blank, by Ed Brubaker and Colin Wilson 4/10
• Batman: The Cult, by Jim Starlin and Bernie Wrightson 3/10
• Human Target #1-10, by Peter Milligan, Javier Pulido, and Cliff Chiang 6/10
• Northlanders #1-5, by Brian Wood and Davide Gianfelice 4/10
• Straight Man, by Richard Russo 5/10
• The Ghost Writer, by Philip Roth 5/10
• The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood 8/10
• Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation Of A Kind, by Joel Yanofsky 0/10
• Johnny Cash: The Autobiography, by Johnny Cash and Patrick Carr 7/10
• Freedomland, by Richard Price 7/10
• The Road, by Cormac McCarthy 9/10
• Tell Me Something, by Jason 7/10
• Tor #1, by Joe Kubert 5/10
• Action Philosophers #1 – 9, by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey 9/10
• Beanworld Vols. 1 & 2, by Larry Marder 8/10
• Batman #458-460, by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle 8/10
• Tiny Titans Free Comic Book Day Edition, by Art Baltazar and Franco 8/10
• EC Free Comic Book Day Sampler, by Harvey Kurtzman, Al Feldstein, Alex Toth, Johnny Craig, and Wally Wood 8/10
• Silverfish, by David Lapham 3/10
• The War That Time Forgot #1, by Bruce Jones and Al Barrionuevo 4/10
• House of Mystery #1, by Matthew Sturges and Luca Rossi, with Bill Willingham and Ross Campbell 7/10
• The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks 8/10
• James Sturm’s America: God, Gold, and Golems, by James Sturm 7/10
• DC Universe #0, by Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, and a large mishmash of artists 0/10
• Elephantmen: Wounded Animals, by Richard Starkings and Joe Kelly, Moritat, Chris Bachalo, Henry Flint, Tom Scioli, and David Hine 7/10
• Hard Revolution, by George Pelecanos 5/10
• Mean, by Steve Weissman 8/10
• From Hell, by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell 8/10
• Child of God, by Cormac McCarthy 7/10
• American Splendor Vol. 2, #1, by Harvey Pekar, David Lapham, Dean Haspiel, Mike Hawthorne, Hilary Barta, John Lucas, Ed Piskor, Zachary Baldus, and Chris Weston 6/10
• Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin 6/10
• The Braindead Megaphone, by George Saunders 8/10
• The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman 7/10
• Clockers, by Richard Price 8/10
• Tintin: The Complete Companion, by Michael Farr 8/10
• The Fun Never Stops! by Drew Friedman 7/10
• A Miracle of Catfish, by Larry Brown 7/10
• The Left Bank Gang, by Jason 7/10
• What’re You Lookin’ At?! Vol. I of the Collected Angry Youth Comix, by Johnny Ryan 5/10
• Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz, by Peter Kuper 7/10
• Comic Writers On Fantastic Four, by Tom DeFalco 5/10
• Golgo 13, Vols. 1 & 3 6/10
• Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, by Bryan Lee O’Malley 8/10
• Shortcomings, by Adrian Tomine 6/10
• Coronado, by Dennis Lehane 4/10
• Perfect Example, by John Porcellino 7/10
• Tarzan: The Joe Kubert Years, Vol. 1, by Joe Kubert 8/10
• Terror, Inc. #1-5, by David Lapham and Patrick Zircher 4/10
• The Trouble With Girls, by Will Jacobs, Gerard Jones, and Tim Hamilton 6/10
• Crash, by JG Ballard 7/10
• Essex County Vol. 1: Tales From The Farm, by Jeff Lemire 8/10
• The Mammoth Book of Best War Comics, by David Kendall, edit. 6/10
• In Persuasion Nation, by George Saunders 7/10
• Empire Falls, by Richard Russo 8/10
• Luba: The Book of Ophelia, by Gilbert Hernandez 3/10
• Desolation Jones: Made in England, by Warren Ellis and JH Williams III 7/10
• Exit Wounds, by Rutu Modan 8/10
• Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy 9/10
• Charley’s War: 2 June – 1 August 1916, by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun. 8/10
• Pyongyang, by Guy Delisle 6/10
• Trenches, by Scott Mills 2/10
• Pastoralia, by George Saunders
• Concrete, Vol. 1: Depths, by Paul Chadwick
• Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
• The New Adventures of Jesus: The Second Coming, by Frank Stack
• Scott Pilgrim and The Infinite Sadness, by Bryan Lee O’Malley
• Library Mascot Cage Match: An Unshelved Collection, by by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes
• Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway, by Mike Carey, Scott Hampton, Chris Weston, James Hodgkins, Warren Pleece, Dean Ormston
• Snaked #1, by Clifford Meth, Rufus Dayglo
• Spent, by Joe Matt 2/10
• Why Are You Doing This? by Jason 8/10

Reads, 2007

• Kingdom Come, by J.G. Ballard**
  
• Marked, by Steve Ross*
  
• Rebel Without A Crew, by Robert Rodriguez**
  
• The Late Hector Kipling, by David Thewliss***
  
• The Maximortal, by Rick Veitch**
  
• Buddy Does Jersey, by Peter Bagge***
  
• After The Snooter, by Eddie Campbell***
  
• Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World, by Bryan Lee O'Malley***
  
• The Horde, by Baranko***
• The Other Side, by Jason Aaron and Cameron Stewart***
• Queen & Country, Vol. 2: Operation Morningstar, by Greg Rucka, Brian Hurtt, and Christine Norrie**
• Street Angel, by Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca***
  
• Sloth, by Gilbert Hernandez**
  
• Jamestown, by Matthew Sharpe***
  
• Smoke, by Alex de Campi and Igor Kordey**
  
• Misery Loves Comedy, by Ivan Brunetti**
  
• Palestine, by Joe Sacco***
  
• Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor***
  
• The Salon, by Nick Bertozzi***
  
• The Frank Ritza Papers, by David Collier*
  
• Demo, by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan***
  
• Excelsior! The Amazing Life of Stan Lee, by Stan Lee and George Mair**
  
• World War Z, by Max Brooks***
  
• The Road to Wellville, by TC Boyle***
  
• The Atlas, by William T. Vollmann****
  
• Meow, Baby! by Jason****
• Jar of Fools, by Jason Lutes***
  
• The Playboy, by Chester Brown***
  
• Berlin: Book One, by Jason Lutes***
  
• Black Diamond Detective Agency, by Eddie Campbell*
  
• Fair Weather, by Joe Matt**
  
• Can't Get No, by Rick Veitch***
• Luba: Three Daughters, by Gilbert Hernandez***
  
• Writers on Comics Scriptwriting, by Mark Salisbury****
  
• Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, by Gilbert Hernandez*****
  
• Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, by Bryan Lee O'Malley***
  
• The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy*****
  
• All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy****
  
• Invaders From The North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe, by John Bell***
  
• Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book, by Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon***
  
• Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, by Chester Brown***
  
• Anarchy For the Masses: An Underground Guide to The Invisibles,
  by Patrick Neighly, Kereth Cowe-Spigai***
  
• Hicksville, by Dylan Horrocks***
  
• No Country For Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy***
  
• The Comics Journal Library: The Writers, edited by Tom Spurgeon****
  
• Chip Kidd, by Veronique Vienne***
  
• You Can't Get There From Here, by Jason***
  
• Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy***
  
• Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution, by Ronin Ro**
  
• The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, by David Simon and Edward Burns*****
  
• Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, by Robert Polito****
  
• The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson****
  
• Epileptic, by David B.***
  
• Men and Cartoons, by Jonathan Lethem**
• Affliction, by Russell Banks****
• Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets, by David Simon*****
• Paul Moves Out, by Michel Rabagliati*
• The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995, by Chester Brown***
• PUSSEY! by Dan Clowes****
• Wonder Boys, by Michael Chabon****
• Our Band Could Be Your Life, by Michael Azerrad****
  
• A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and The Renaissance, by William Manchester****
  
• The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith****
• Selected Stories by Phillip K. Dick, by Phillip K. Dick***
  
• The Last Honest Man: Mordecai Richler: An Oral Biography, by Michael Posner***
• A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever, by Josh Karp***
• 24 Hour Comics Day Highlights, 2005, Nat Gertler, Edt.**
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, by Anthony Bourdain****
  
• Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, by Harvey Pekar***
• The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem****
• The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon***
  

Reads, 2004 - 2006

• The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith, by Patricia Highsmith****
• The Rabbit Factory, by Larry Brown***
• Jack Staff Vol. 1: Everything Used To Be Black and White, by Paul Grist***
• Ice Haven, by Daniel Clowes***
• Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon*****
• Solomon Gursky Was Here, by Mordecai Richler****
• Slow Learner, by Thomas Pynchon***
• V., by Thomas Pynchon*****
• Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow***
• The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair****
• Buddy Does Seattle, by Peter Bagge**
• Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe***
• 100 Bullets Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6, Vol. 7, Vol. 8, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso****
• Friday Night Lights, by H. G. Bissinger****
• The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris**
• Bone, Vol 1: Out From Boneville, by Jeff Smith***
• Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book, by Gerard Jones****
  
• The Madame Paul Affair, by Julie Doucet*
• Blankets, by Craig Thompson*****
• It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken, by Seth***
• V For Vendetta, by Alan Moore & David Lloyd****
• Clandestine, by James Ellroy***
• Tricked, by Alex Robinson***
• Bighead, by Jeffrey Brown****
• I Never Liked You, by Chester Brown**
• In The Shadow of No Towers, by Art Spiegleman**
• Bluebeard, by Kurt Vonnegut****
• Chronicles Vol.1, by Bob Dylan***
• Hitman #29-60, et al., by Ennis & McCrea**
• Hitman Vol. 5: Who Dares Wins, by Ennis & McCrea****
• Hitman Vol. 4: Ace of Killers, by Ennis & McCrea***
• Hitman Vol. 3: Local Heroes, by Ennis & McCrea***
• Hitman Vol. 2: 10 000 Bullets, by Ennis & McCrea****
• Hitman, Vol. 1, by Garth Ennis & John McCrea***
• Manhunter: The Complete Saga!, by Archie Goodwin & Walt Simonson****
• Woody Allen: A Biography, by John Baxter**
• White Jazz, by James Ellroy***
• L.A. Confidential, by James Ellroy*****
• The Tale of One Bad Rat, by Bryan Talbot*****
• The Big Nowhere, by James Ellroy***
• New Frontier Vol. 1, Vol. 2, by Darwyn Cooke***
• Nil: A Land Beyond Belief, by James Turner****
• Sleeper, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, by Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips***
• Fables, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, by Bill Willingham & Others****
• Losers, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, by Andy Diggle, Jock, & Others**
• The Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy***
• Blue Blood, by Edward Conlon**
  
• Comic Book Rebels, by Stanley Wiater & Steven R. Bissette***
• Love, Poverty, & War, by Christopher Hitchens**
• The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore, by George Khoury****
• Ghost World, by Daniel Clowes***
• The R. Crumb Handbook, by R. Crumb & Pete Poplaski****
• The 25th Hour, by David Benioff****
• Danse Macabre, by Stephen King***
• Zodiac, by Neal Stephenson**
• Fury, by Garth Ennis & Darick Robertson**
• Doom Patrol #19-63, by Grant Morrison, Richard Case, & Others*****
• Man in Black, by Johnny Cash***
• Wilco: Learning How To Die, by Greg Kot****
• For A Few Troubles More, by Garth Ennis, John McCrea***
• Heartland, by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon*****
• Adventures In The Rifle Brigade, by Garth Ennis, Carlos Ezquerra**
• Troubled Souls, by Garth Ennis, John McCrea****
• Kingdom Come, by Mark Waid, Alex Ross**
• We3 #1-3, by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely****
• Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo*****
• Ham On Rye, by Charles Bukowski****
• The System of The World, by Neal Stephenson***
• The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952, by Charles M. Schulz*****
• Cronenberg On Cronenberg, Chris Rodley, edt.***
• Letters To A Young Contrarian, by Christopher Hitchens***
• Why Orwell Matters, by Christopher Hitchens**
• Cue The Elephant, by Knowlton Nash**
• Utopia Parkway, The Life & Work of Joseph Cornell, by Deborah Solomon***
• Life On Homicide, by William McCormack & Bob Cooper**
• The Cheese Monkeys, by Chip Kidd****
• Palm Sunday, by Kurt Vonnegut**
• Maus, A Survivors Tale: My Father Bleeds History, by Art Spiegelman****
• The Confusion, by Neal Stephenson****
• Jack Cole & Plastic Man..., by Art Spiegleman & Chip Kidd***
• Devil In A Blue Dress, by Walter Mosely**
• The Killer Inside Me, by Jim Thompson****
• Fates Worse Than Death, by Kurt Vonnegut***
• I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson****
• Ironweed, by William Kennedy***
• A Long Line of Dead Men, by Lawrence Block**
• Joe, by Larry Brown****
• Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut****
• Coppola, by Peter Cowie*
• Hard Boiled: An Anthology, Pronzini & Adrian, edt.****
• Big Bad Love, Larry Brown***
• My Dark Places, James Ellroy****