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Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus

by Aaron Cometbus · 2002

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Collected here are selections from the first twenty years of Cometbus; including the ultra-rare intros, notes, and a scrapbook.

Themes
music
Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 600 pages
Form
essaysshort stories

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