The Mummy’s Sabbatical originally ran from 2016-2017. In 2020, it was wiped from the internet when a slow-witted cartoonist attempted to update some WordPress plugins. This collection represents an edited selection of the original run.

A placid campus is suddenly rent by the screaming launch of ANTIQUE ROCKETRY! Thus SETKA (former Pharoh, Professor of Dynamic Egyptology and Romantic Poetry) and his graduate assistant FRANCESCA (former girls’ soccer team, promising young Frankenstein) explode into nerve-searing, soul-flummoxing adventure in the monster-rotted depths of our benighted SOLAR SYSTEM! Armed with ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE, TIMELESS PLUCK, and some snappy CONTEMPORARY FASHIONS, our dauntless heroes face viperous draculas, abominable lagoon creatures, odorous opera phantoms, towering colossi, and other slavering enemies of all that is good and decent in their quest uncover the devastating secrets of the ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS!

Benito Cereno is a novella collected in Herman Melville’s The Piazza Tales. It is one of the few novellas currently working in the comics industry.

Joel Priddy teaches at Penn State and has lost multiple Eisners.