Drop Target Omnibus

by Jon Chad, Alec Longstreth

From 2010 to 2015, cartoonists Jon Chad and Alec Longstreth collaborated on an illustrated pinball zine called Drop Target. This 540-page omnibus collects all seven issues Drop Target, plus it includes more than 100 pages of bonus content. It's a book chock full of pinball reviews, interviews, tutorials, comics, illustrations and reportage. If you're into pinball, then this is the book for you!

Genres: Games, Nonfiction

534 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Jon · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of (primarily comic/graphic) zines is a really fun look at pinball as a modern(ish) hobby, subculture, sport, and obsession. I highly recommend to people who are newish to the hobby or starting to get "the bug"--like people who have been on Pinside for a year or two would love this. My favorite sections of the book are when they ask pinhead and non-pinhead folks to design their own decks and you get some really really creative and wild stuff (especially loved the one that was a pinball table about publishing your own zine ... P3 Multimorphic make it happen!). Another big positive on this book is its overall positivity ... like so many other niches pinball has its share of negative nancies and toxicity and this sort of crap is all pleasantly absent from this one. PLAY A REAL GAME, PLAY PINBALL!!!

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read a lot of pinball books and this is a new favorite. You can tell the stories are of love for the hobby and community. And it's lots of different people and stories I haven't heard instead of the same ones pinball publications frequently focus on.