Sandeep has a new magazine in town called Versus.

It started with two months ago. Back at the beginning of October Dave Sim was hanging out with Sandeep and they wrote about distribution.

Dave Sim’s blogandmail #20 (October 1st, 2006)

Good news — Williams had 50 copies of Versus No.1 and they’re all gone. Sandeep just did a restock. Sandeep?

Yes, there’s a city-wide war going on and it’s up to me to make sure all supply lines are restocked. If we don’t get the goods out to the coffee shops, restaurants, bistros and diners, it’s the people of K-W who will suffer. Several armies fight for space, the local weekly puts its papers on top of the university paper, the university paper puts them on top of the music monthly while the free classified paper ekes out its own spot and so on. So, I have to constantly monitor the distribution spots. Fifty is pretty good.

Sim is the creator of Cerebus the Aardvark, the 6,000 page graphic novel, and wiki-p tells us he regularly attends council meetings. That is what he covers for Versus, Kitchener city council. For the current issue, December, he writes about the approval of and protest against a bingo hall on Krug Street.

Sandeep writes about Rumsfeld. Dave Fisher writes about a tragic rugby injury sustained the day after the club lost its insurance. There is a Jack Lefcourt cartoon. There are also articles about, electoral reform in Ontario, video game review criticism criticism, music and television review, and an entertainment calendar.

Like Sandy the magazine is irreverent. Page 3 shows “documents” ordering a polonium hit on three local beavers.

If you are tired of bland and stupid, you should read Versus.