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Achewood Volume 2: Worst Song, Played On Ugliest Guitar, by Chris Onstad
The first 135 or so Achewood strips, along with commentary and character backstories. Achewood got off to a (very) slow start and the strips are, in any case, available online for free, so there’s no point to buying this unless you’re a serious fan. That being said, Onstad’s comments on the individual strips are usually entertaining or informative (my favorite: “This strip exemplifies my frustrations with the medium. This needs audio to work properly; it also needs decent writing. I hate that comics sometimes have stupid writing that goes nowhere.”), and the prose “A History of Achewood” is excellent.
The Merchant’s War, by Charles Stross
Of the six books in the Merchant Princes series, this is (bizarrely, given that it’s book four) the only one not available as an ebook.
