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On Saturday 29th March 2025, Gosh! is excited to welcome back Paul B. Rainey to the shop for a signing between 1-2pm. We can’t wait to carry Drawn and Quaterly’s edition of There’s No Time Like the Present. Gosh! carried the original issues 20 years ago and we’ve been fans ever since."If time travel existed, would you right societal wrongs or just watch future episodes of Doctor Who?
Paul B. Rainey’s There’s No Time Like the Present continues to upend grand science fiction gestures with a deep desire to understand the emotional lives of the common man (nerd). It’s a simple conceit: time travel is only possible between the invention of the necessary, functioning machinery and the day those machines are shut off. In that finite sliver of space-time, humanity schisms into those who defiantly refuse to look into the future, and those who reap the benefits of doing so.
After all, what would you do if you accidentally found out for certain that you would still be working the same dead end job at the age of 70? What would you do if you could read every future issue of your favorite comic? Or if you traveled back in time and couldn’t afford to travel back? Would your life actually be that different? Can we admit that there might not be such a thing as free will? Is life just a series of denials of reality? Why does that one guy have horns?
There’s No Time Like The Present proves the success of Why Don’t You Love Me? was no fluke, and is yet another brilliant graphic novel by a modern master."
We’ll also be celebrating the new paperback edition of the soon to be a major motion picture, Why Don’t You Love Me?
"A couple struggles through their unhappy marriage in this dark science-fiction comedy
Claire and Mark are in the doldrums of an unhappy marriage. She doesn’t get out of her bathrobe and chain-smokes while slumped on the couch. Mark has lost track of the days and can’t get the kids to school on time. They’ve lost interest in family and order-in pizza and chinese food every night. Mark sleeps on the couch and has trouble remembering his son’s name. He feels like a fraud at work but somehow succeeds. Claire stalks an ex-boyfriend. How could he have left her to this life?
Claire and Mark are both plagued by the idea that this is all a dream. Didn’t they have different lives? When reports of an imminent nuclear war come on the radio, the truth begins to dawn on them: this is not the life they chose.
Why Don’t You Love Me? is a pitch-black comedy about marriage, alcoholism, depression, and mourning lost opportunities. Paul B. Rainey has created a hilariously terrifying alternate reality where confusion and pain might lead people to make bad choices but also eventually freedom…maybe."
Paul will be joining us on Saturday 29th March, from 1pm. You can pre-order a signed bookplate edition of There's No Time Like the Present, which is exclusive to our shop, by clicking the link here. And if you're after a signed copy of Why Don't You Love Me, then click the link here. Both available for mail-order or collection from our website.
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