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YO YO! My name is Ceasar Hallelujah and I'm a busboy at a restaurant called the Guangdong Factory. When needed, I can use the power of magical fortune cookies baked by my girl friend (not girlfriend!) Chieko Momuza to turn into the pivot-posing red rocket ninja robot Sharknife!!!!!Why would I want to do that? Because!
This mean yakuza guy by the name of Ombra Ravenga stuck monsters in our WALLS! So now wheneverthey get too big, they jump out and assault our customers! I'm not about to sit around while a gang of mutated crabs attempt to eat all our patron's pineapples!!!!!!

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NIGHT TRIPPERS GN PREVIEW
By MARK RICKETTS

I was rolling my cart down a supermarket aisle around eleven PM when the sound of Petula Clark's "Don't Sleep in the Subway" suddenly turned into Pink Floyd's psychedelic classic "See Emily Play." It seemed kind of creepy to be shopping for milk while this perverse, mind-bending sonic oddity wafted through the near empty store. Earlier that night I had considered writing a story about vampires in medieval England, but while listening to that distorted organ, sped-up piano, and whimsical lyric it hit me that I should place my vampire tale in that time when color, fashion, music, sexual revolution, and social changeexploded on one crazy scene-- 1960s swinging London.

Think about it: Vampires tripping on acid! Vampires in mini-skirts dancing in cages! Vampires infiltrating the music industry to control the minds of young and impressionable human livestock!

At first, I started musing on a Mod vampire riding a tricked-out Vespa from scene-to-scene, club to club, searching for kicks and victims. But there was something a little too Austin Powers about that approach. I decided to delve deeper into that period, and was particularly drawn to movers and shakers like Brian Epstein (the man who gave the world a little musical group called The Beatles) and Justin de Villeneuve (the man who made skinny fashionable by introducing the world to Twiggy).

That's when I decided to focus the story on a young ingénue named Dot and the ancient, megalomaniacal, yet trendy vampire who would transform her into a pop icon. For months, I completely immersed myself in the music, the fashion, the art, and the films of that time. And once I'd written the first couple of chapters, I felt I'd really hit upon something. It was the right combination of ultra-violet and ultra-violence... I just needed an artist who could reconcile Mod fashion with Gothic horror.

That's when a friend of mine, Matt Anderson, introduced me to Micah Farritor. Micah had just finished working on "The Living and the Dead" with writers Bob Tinnell and Todd Livingston and was looking for his next project. The timing was right, the moon was in the seventh house, Jupiter collided with Mars, and though it may not have been the Age of Aquarius, Micah agreed to join the happening.While lettering the first collection of Micah's illustrations, I only listened to music from the 60s--the more hallucinatory the better. Inspired by all this trippy pop, I decided to approach my friend Ellis Clark of the band Epicycle about contributing music to a Night Trippers podcast. Ellis not only gave his blessing for me to use a track from Epicycle's 2002 album "Swirl", but also volunteered to create new music based on lyrics I'd created for the book.

Then when John Suintres, the interviewer from the comic book oriented website wordballoon.com, joined me for a fictional interview the podcast really came together in a fusion of music and fantasy. You can download this aural extension to the Night Trippers graphic novel at our website http://www.nighttrippers.com/ or at iTunes here.

In May, the 184 page graphic novel Night Trippers hits the stands at a retail price of $16.99. Don't forget to order an advance copy from the March 2006 Previews catalog. Tune in, turn on, and fang out!

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Judo Girl is a woman on a mission: after having spent 40 years in suspension animation, she searches for her missing brother, Judo Boy. However, her arch-enemy, the diabolical Captain Steel, hasn't spent the last four decades collecting rust. Indeed, his awful plans are about to solidify on a worldwide scale! Central to these evil schemes is the implacable Judo-Bot, whose ultra-modern features completely outclass and overwhelm our time-tossed hipster. However, her arch-enemy, the diabolical Captain Steel, hasn't spent the last four decades collecting rust.

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Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police roster numbers three-and-a-half people (one detective has no legs). Dumped in this collapsing urban trashzone, Richard Fell is starting all over again. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: Everybody's hiding something. Even him.

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Strangers in Paradise is a wonderfully realistic comic book brought to life by the enormous talent of its writer/artist, Terry Moore. This Eisner Award winning comic series chronicles the life of Katina Choovanski, affectionately known as Katchoo to her friends. She is the picture of perfection, a beautiful face with a gorgeous body. But that pretty face hides a sharp mind and a keen wit, not to mention enough secrets to astound the CIA.

A hardcase with a hard attitude, Katchoo only has two weaknesses:

The first is for David, a close friend with connections to her dark and dangerous past. He loves her completely, and would give anything to have her, but it is a love that Katchoo does not share. Sometimes warm and often adversarial, their relationship is something she is hardpressed to define. But regardless of her confusion over it, David's friendship is something that Katchoo has come to count on and need.

Her second, and most powerful, weakness is for her best friend, Francine, the woman who holds the strings to her heart
Francine is a wonderfully naive young girl, who has believed for most of her life that happiness meant having a man to love her. Riddled with self doubt and insecurities, she usually finds herself struggling with the way the world sees her. Deemed imperfect by most and raised in an overly conservative environment, she has a hard time accepting Katchoo's love for her, and an even harder time turning away from it.

Strangers In Paradise (SIP) is the story of three friends, Francine, Katchoo and David and the people they fall in and out of love with. It's a tale of dark pasts and hopeful futures, double-crosses and true friendship, love and hate. In other words: it's a story of real life, kicked up a notch.


The highly acclaimed ongoing comic book series, Strangers In Paradise, was created by Terry Moore in 1993 and the continuing story is published every six weeks. SIP has been awarded numerous industry awards including the 2003 Inkpot Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comic Arts, a 2002 YALSA/ALA selection for Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, the GLAAD Media Award for Best Comic Book in 2000, and the 1996 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Serialized Story.

SIP is published in eight languages around the world including English, French, German, Spanish, Finnish, Portuguese, Dutch and Italian.

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A team of brilliant scientists have unwittingly unlocked the secret to eternal life. There's just one catch, you have to die first.

Vengeance of the Mummy!

Scientist Jenna Andersen is no longer alive, but she’s not quite dead either. Once the member of a three-person research team whose nanotech bandages held the promise of regenerating dead cells, she hunts relentlessly for the man who killed her and her fiancé.
Out of the shattered remains of her previous life, Jenna is reborn at an unimaginable price. She is now an emotionless, undead monstrosity who will stop at nothing to avenge herself.
Death's a bitch.

By: Justin Gray & Eliseu Gouvia-Zeu, with covers by Kalman Androzofsky
32 pgs, b/w, $2.95


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The Magnate has come to Earth for one thing…Power. The Earths mightiest heroes unite to try and defeat this intergalactic menace and stop him before he takes over the planet. There’s one more problem…all of Earth’s villains have joined the Magnate and his minions in the quest for global power. Can Earth’s heroes survive the ultimate super hero Alamo?

Written by George T. (Mutation, Wargod, Shocking Gun Tales) Singley and Jim (Chance of a Lifetime) Mitchel with Artwork by Tim (Wildguard, Hell) Kane. Super Crazy TNT Blast! explodes it’s way to you monthly by Chimaera Studios and Speakeasy Comics.

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Furious Fist of the Drunken Monkey: Origin of the Species #1 (of 3)
Full Color 24 Pages
Story and Art by Rich Stahnke
Lettering by Kel Nuttall

SPR: $2.95

Description:
The Drunken Monkey returns in an all-new mini series from Silent Devil. Chip, accompanied by his toad buddy Al, is about to find himself in one of his most difficult battles as he uncovers unknown truths about everyone close to him and secrets from his own past. But before that, he must defeat the pouch wearing, big gun toting nemesis known as Deathblud!

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Joe Doogan: Zombie Hunter, Like, Totally Goes to High School in Digital Webbing Presents #28


The world's most famous zombie hunter goes back to High School and cleans up an outbreak of zombies at Pomegranate High School in the Oakland suburbs. Dario Carrasco's and Aaron Thomas Nelson's satirical horror comic "Joe Doogan: Zombie Hunter" makes its second appearance in the comic book anthology Digital Webbing Presents #28. In the short story "Clique! Yer Dead!" Joe Doogan goes toe-to-toe with some jock and cheerleader zombies who have overrun the school.

As Australia's most famous zombie hunter, Joe Doogan hosts a reality television show called "Undead Zone" that documents his exploits as a zombie hunter and, further, educates the public about the dangers of zombies. "Joe's the kind of guy who'll jump in head first and wonder about the depth of the pool later," says co-creator Dario Carrasco, artist on such notable projects as Darkhorse's Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, Star Wars: Jedi Academy, as well as Marvel's Alpha Flight, Night Thrasher, and Captain America. "And let's face it, High School and zombies taste great together--like peanut butter and chocolate," chimed in co-creator and writer Aaron Thomas Nelson.

"Clique! Yer Dead!" is written by Aaron Thomas Nelson, and illustrated by Dario Carrasco. The comic was inked by TG Sangalang, colored by Rich Hiltbrunner and lettered by Matty Ryan. Other Joe Doogan stories are slated to appear in Just A Buck Comics, and an anthology due out in 2006, which will introduce other members of the International Fellowship of Zombie Hunters. Find out more at Digital Webbing ( http://www.digitalwebbing.com ) and Panday Studio ( http://www.pandaystudio.com/index_temp.php ). Digital Webbing Presents #28 (32 pages, full color cover and interiors, $3.99 US) is solicited in January's PREVIEWS (JAN06 3008) for a March release.

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The Story…It is April in the year 1775. War is only weeks away - maybe even days. The British know it and so do the members of the newly formed colonial Continental Congress. Only through the use of a vast network of spies can either side hope to keep one step ahead of the other. Nowhere is this struggle more intense than in New York City, the bustling headquarters for all of Britain's activities in the colonies. Like Berlin during the height of the Cold War, New York is a city of pivotal importance. It is a place where colonists and those loyal to the crown are equally represented and an uneasy tension fills the air.

In the last several weeks, the British have become desperate to maintain their control over the colonies and have secretly enlisted the services of a powerful and mysterious group of individuals who call themselves ‘The League.' Unbeknownst to the British, the League is a maniacal and treacherous organization whose members possess dangerous supernatural powers that threaten to bring chaos to the land and ultimately destroy the colonies themselves.

Nathaniel Finch is a budding scientist, a successful business man, and the editor of a weekly newspaper in New York City. An exceptionally intelligent and hard working man, Nathaniel could easily have found himself to be one of the most influential men in the Colonies, knee deep in politics, along side men like Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin. But as much as Nathaniel might be tempted to lead what some would call an 'ordinary life', he has a different set of priorities. Perhaps better than anyone, he knows that there are things in this world – mysterious, unexplainable, deadly things - that represent more of a threat to life and liberty than taxation without representation.

To combat these threats and to keep those around him safe, Nathaniel Finch has become the masked spy known as The Black Coat. Even as a revolutionary war is burgeoning around him, The Black Coat, assisted by a network of agents, fights another kind of war - a war unseen by most men. His determination, skill, and wits are his only defenses against ancient curses, mythical creatures, and enchanted science.

The Black Coat faces his greatest challenge in the form of The League. All of his intelligence, all of his strength, all of his courage will be put to the test in a battle for the survival of not just him and his men, but for a new nation!

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NEPTUNE

Palmiotti and Gray's NEPTUNE Rises
New superhero thriller graphic novel debuts in March from Narwain

Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray have been blazing a trail through mainstream comics with acclaimed titles as Jonah Hex, Hawkman, Daughters of the Dragon, and Monolith. Now, Narwain is pleased to introduce the world to their creator-owned epic graphic novel Neptune.The delicate treaty between surface world and the submerged city of Atlantis is jeopardized when a super villain terrorist tries to launch a war that will bring him power over the earth. One man, possessing the power of the god Neptune, must stop him.With artwork by Wellington Dias (C.S.I.), Neptune features political intrigue, super villains, terrorists, spies, giant sea monsters, strange new sciences and a lawless border town in the middle of the ocean.

Neptune is an alternative to the continuity-heavy crossovers going on everywhere. "It's a book with a beginning, middle and end. You can just pick it up and read it. A retailer can keep it on the rack all year round."Palmiotti said he's happy to be working with Narwain on the project for a number of reasons. "We're very excited that Narwain has let us create something from scratch and be totally involved with ever aspect of the book. Also, Narwain is launching this in several markets around the world simultaneously which is a big plus."Neptune features 48 full-color pages for a cover price of $5.99.

The graphic novel is slated for release in March and can be found in the current Diamond Previews catalog.

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Furious Fist of the Drunken Monkey #1
Review by Christopher T. Peel

Published by Imperium Comics

Being a writer for a superhero spoof comic book myself I'm always on the look out for new humor titles. When I first saw this one it caught my eye but I put it back on the shelf thinking it was some kind of martial art spoof and no one makes fun of kung fu. What the hell was I thinking? I must have had malaria that day or something.

I finally picked up a copy a few weeks later only to realize that it had nothing to do with martial arts and that Rich Stahnke can bring the funny. The story starts with the drunken monkey himself, Chip, getting fired from his job at Wonderburger for offering a special item, not on the menu, to a customer with huge tracks of land. While Chip is walking home a UFO crash lands in front him. Chip finds a dying alien, named Lla-Mont, who is trying to warn him about the Warlords and about the power of his ring. Chip takes Lla-Mont's ring (sound familiar?) as he lays there saying "something about the power company." Chip's best friend, a talking toad named Al, accompanies him on his misadventures. Al, a scientist caught in a radioactive blast that put his brain into the body of a toad he was trying to save, is the brains behind the duo. After a rude awakening stolen from a scene in Happy Gilmore (some say stolen, I say homage) they stumble on the villainous Gene Gnome, a garden gnome with a penchant toward world domination, and his Homo-Animals, (yes, Homo-Animals) "the best of both man and beast" reeking havoc in downtown Bigg City.

During the m'lée the ring turns into a gauntlet giving Chip super-simian powers. And just when you think the day is saved, Peep-Peep, warlord of the Woo-Woo, shows up with what my dad would've called a mean on hungry. The art is nothing spectacular but fits well with the genre. It's Rich Stahnke's writing that really stands out. Furious Fist of the Drunken Monkey is originality blended with predictable tripe, the essential combination of any good spoof. Included in the book is some filler material consisting of three, equally funny, single-page stories and a background on the creation of the character. This book has it all from spoofs of Green Lantern, The Hulk, and The X-Men to obscure Simpsons references. And with villains like the Gene Gnome, and Peep-Peep, warlord of the Woo-Woo, this one has me eagerly awaiting the next installment.

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THE EPIC EZRA SEARCH
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So you think you have what it takes to make it as a model, but – what about as a super heroine?
Arcana Studios is in search of a living, breathing Ezra, but who’s Ezra you ask? As the title character of the popular comic book series by the same name, Ezra is a sexy medieval mercenary for hire, and she could be YOU!
The winner of the Epic Ezra Search will receive:
The opportunity to appear as Ezra on the cover of the upcoming comic, “Ezra vs. 10th Muse.” You will be photographed with and appear alongside of 10th Muse Cindy Margolis, the most downloaded model ever. “Ezra vs. 10th Muse” is the crossover event of 2006 and will be distributed in eight different countries.
A featured spread in an upcoming issue of Severe Magazine.

Consideration for the role of Ezra in the film adaptation.

Exposure to various industry agencies and film studios.

So, if you think you have what it takes to be crowned the real life Ezra, fill out the entry form and make sure to submit at least two photos for consideration. Finalists will be chosen and then posted on the Severe Magazine web site. The grand prizewinner will be decided upon by viewer votes.

Submissions must be received by 01/31/2006 to be considered.