I find it hard to believe .. 

that .. 

I am the only one .. , 

EVEN AFTER 40 YEARS(!), 

that HAS 

straight 9.8s on these three books...! 

CALIFORNIA, .. THEN .. WAS, 

and still IS ..

SO FAR from Kitchener, Ontario.... 

Nevertheless, when I was nineteen, in 1983, and when I got these, we had SOMETHING IN COMMON.  (I know y'u don't care, or COULD care less, and I'm not asking YOU to tell ME what it was that we had in common.  IN FACT, ... it was

RORY ROOT, himself,

who suggested CEREBUS TO ME....  CEREBUS .. Number 23 .. was the first issue I ordered from Bud Plant, Inc.  ... one-fifty becomes ninety.)

SHOWN:  [are]

Cerebus #53 (2nd Universal, 9.8);

Cerebus #54 (1st Universal, 9.8); and

Cerebus #55 (1st Universal, 9.8)