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Issue #6

Cthulhu is Hard to Spell

Anthology 6

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Issue #5

Cthulhu is Hard to Spell

Anthology 5

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Issue #4

Cthulhu is Hard to Spell

Anthology 4

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Issue #3

Cthulhu is Hard to Spell

Anthology 3

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Issue #2

Cthulhu is Hard to Spell

Anthology 2

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Issue #1

Cthulhu is Hard to Spell

Anthology 1

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Warp Hustler #1

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Austin, 2021: Janice Hoffman's a 34 year-old pot-smoking slacker working at the last video store in Texas. Her life may look aimless and boring, but she's watching every Star Trek episode ever in in-universe chronological order and already made it through 3 seasons of Enterprise. So there. Also, she may get shot in the face for choosing the wrong color swatch. New Jersey, 1937: A very confused Janice materializes on the Hindenburg for 21 seconds as it's engulfed in flames. A different Austin, 2021: An adult Janice with a child brain briefly appears on top of a parking garage. A stylishly-dressed woman wants her to take a message to Bob (this may also involve getting shot in the face). Mexico City, 1987: Baby Janice is maybe being abducted by maybe-aliens. No Damn Idea: Janice is running from totally-for-sure-aliens who travel on kaiju-sized hermit crabs. Janice is speaking Spanish with a 7 ft tall gas-masked zombie in what looks an awful lot like a 1920s German Expressionist sci-fi movie. Janice is free-falling through the thermosphere of a gas giant, in the exact 21 seconds of time and space where it won't cause her to asphyxiate, freeze, burn or explode. Also, possibly in a meta-level where time is moot: Janice is consulting with an infinitely large publishing house on the comic book adaptation of her life story (which itself possibly only ever happened in a comic book). It's written and painted by infinite chimpanzees, a miracle of temporal engineering that was humanity's final FU to AI writers and artists. Through all this, one thing's always the same: Janice is waiting for Bob. Partly to explain WTF is happening, but mainly to kick his ass.

Miss Medusa's Monstrous Menagerie #2

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ISSUE 2: Stavros the Cretan stares down an ant. Jersey DeVille faces the Fuzz. The new Sideshow performer has lots of guts. Lyle Bean trips on mushrooms. Miss Medusa extolls nudists. The ass head who f***ed around with Faeries finds out. "O Bottom, thou art changed!"

Miss Medusa's Monstrous Menagerie #1

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It's 1963, and having a carnival of 666 monsters ain't the draw it used to be. Miss Medusa's Monstrous Menagerie is one of the last two Mythic shows left in the U.S., trucking from one backwater jerkass town to the next. It's dirty work, and sometimes you barely make the nut, but America's still the land of plenty (of rubes). For this season at least, Miss Medusa's hiring, and you can still run away and join the circus. (Mythics, Cryptids, Gods, and Atomics only, please. Humans need not apply.)

Lucifer Licorice #1

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Lucifer Licorice is an all-ages comic series perfect for fans of The Regular Show, Adventure Time, Stephen Universe, or Summer Camp Island, and will make you feel all the feelings. After being transformed into a licorice monster by a candy witch, Lucifer Licorice sets off on an epic quest to get his old life back. Along the way, he travels through the kingdom with his tea towel ghost companion Moober encountering weird monsters trying to gobble him up, fighting against emo-demons determined to tear him down, and traveling into the bowels of heck itself learning the error of his ways so he can stop being so bitter and be transformed back into his old body.

Hearteater #1

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They call her the Hearteater, a pirate known for seducing her way across the seven seas in search of adventure. No lock can keep her out and no target can resist her ample charms. With emerald eyes at the ready for her next heist, Kimona stumbles upon a rogue named Finn, set to die in the gallows... ...and she and her sarcastic raven companion, Zephyr, are pulled into a mystery of eldritch horror, forbidden passion, and kinky fun!

Issue #1

Death's Kiss

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She was born of death, and it was only through death that she could survive. As the last of her kind, she was forced to walk the shadows of the world, stepping into the light only when she must claim a new soul. It was a simple existence, yet she never wanted more. Until she saw him, and somehow he saw her too. The impossibility of their connection drew her closer, and soon she found herself wishing she was more than just a waif condemned to live apart from humanity. For centuries she merely existed, but now she longed to live. Can she escape what she was to find who she's truly meant to be?

The Unthinkables

Unthinkables #3

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#3... relatively uneventful. That's the one where we finally put them together and give them the mission. Just a talky exposition issue, probably. Everything will be fine. No, really. Not much happens in this one.

The Unthinkables

Unthinkables 2

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No really. Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, Thunderbolts and Megamind totally bulls***ted you. Even The Dirty Dozen (because not all terrible ideas for heroes wear capes). So we rounded up (almost) all of the “at large” f***ers on our list out in #1: RiotGrrl; Devilfish; the Anti-Freeze; Noddy Blinkins; White Devil II... oh and Fallout, whoever that is. The Air Force has had that thing locked in an 18 ton nuclear waste casket, so yeah... let's peek in there and see if he'll save us. Fer sure, dude. No wonder Bloody Mary gave us an “I'll get back to you.” #2's mostly just picking up a**holes we already have in custody, how hard could that be? Mind, these d***heads look f***in' useless. Crystal Lyn, Soma and... um... Jeffrey- three telepaths who are so f***ed up they can't communicate anymore. Rubber Johnny? Stretchy interdimensional imp who eats every human brain in sight as soon as you let him out of the armor (the only time he can use the powers). But hey- he's GREAT if you need something heavy to throw. Verve's power is stopping stuff. Super lame. The only reason anybody even knows her is 'cuz she's also on Superstoked, that supervillain fans-only app where she's famous for doing topless reaction videos and charging stupid amounts of cash for private chats where she... ...actually, no. She should totally be on the team. Sublime? F***in' weird power that changes any element to any state without changing its temperature. Warm ice. Gaseous glass. Solid air. Wearable quartz plasma. Yeah, it's goddamn weird and incompatible with anything we know about chemistry or physics (like flying superheroes did, what was the propulsion- farts?). She's been in a zero-G cell, drugged up to her ears for half a decade. So yeah... let's ask her real nice for help.

The Unthinkables

Unthinkables #1

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Look... when every superhero on Earth suddenly drops dead, it can lead to some impulsive decision-making. At the time, getting “supervillains” together to save the world seemed like... a thing... we could do. We were visualizing this whole scenario where a ragtag bunch'a misfits would overcome their differences and pull it together in the third act. Works in sports movies, right? Bad News Bears, Major League, Slap Shot... whatever that one with Keanu Reeves was... In retrospect, we allocated too much time to trying to remember the names of Keanu Reeves movies and not enough considering that supervillains are completely f***ed, broken people with untreated mental illnesses.

Issue #6

The Surgeon, Ch. 6: Blood

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When we last saw Doc Hanover, she was standing in her undies, chucking rocks at Little Bird. Her lover had stolen everything, including her weapons and Old Paint. Yes, to some extent, she is a victim in this situation, but if you look at the larger picture, what goes around has more or less come around. She arrived at this point after disappointing the people of Turtle Island, leaving the fort without a doctor when they needed one and asked her in no uncertain terms to stay. She also broke her word with the First Nations United, who were counting on her help to raid the Tunnel Rats and bust up a slave-trading operation. Instead, she decided to run off with Little Bird, very much enamored, and commit to a life of mean, wild, passionate banditry with no rhyme or reason and no eye to the future. Little Bird, however, was playing a long con, and set her up perfectly -- just to knock her down. As we begin Chapter 6, Painty is stolen, Little Bird is on the run, and Hanover is furious and alone, on the wrong side of a whole bunch of burned bridges. Without further ado, Chapter 6: Blood.

Issue #5

The Surgeon, Ch. 5: Do No Harm

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Doc has done everything she knows how to do to save Master Rogers’ life after his accidental poisoning. We’ll know by morning if she’s done enough. Meanwhile, in an effort to “do what the big guy would’ve done,” she goes to clear out the raiders’ camp. There, she meets Chief Chuck Long ... who wants to have a word with her ... On the frontier, favors are currency. Promises are law. Without them, what have we got? What have we got to lash out and rebel against ... ... when word is bond and your oath was to DO NO HARM?

Issue #4

The Surgeon, Ch. 4: Heroic

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When last we left Doctor Hanover at the fort of Turtle Island, she and Master Rogers had survived the night protecting the fort from the marauding Hot Animal Machines, becoming comrades in the process. Their numbers decimated, the invaders chose not to flee, but to make camp outside of rifle range and harass the fort, making it impossible to graze their livestock and impossible to leave. Eager to leave above any other motivation, Doctor Hanover reluctantly agreed to deliver poisoned opium to the Hot Animals as a decoy, a deadly "tribute." Unbeknownst to anyone, Master Rogers had begun to rely increasingly on medicinal opium for the pain of a wound he received in Chapter 1. In his shame, he secretly stole some of the poisoned opium and only came to understand his potentially fatal error as he is asked to protect Hanover on her delivery run. Now, we find ourselves staring down the barrel of Chapter 4: Heroic. The physician remains the killer. The warrior becomes her patient. And a new threat is found among the bones of the old. 22 pages plus an extra 9-page illustrated prose story

Issue #3

The Surgeon, Ch. 3: How to Bring Knives to a Gunfight

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News doesn't travel as fast as it used to, but out in the South Dakota Black Hills, stories are starting to spread. Stories of the lonesome doctor on the painted Palomino, the healer whose skill with a saber is more legendary than her skill with the scalpel. Stories of the Hot Animal Machine death cult spreading west, into new territories that are unprepared for their savagery. Stories of the peaceful fort of Turtle Island, where the doctor came to work for a spell, and which the Hot Animals decided to attack. Last anybody heard, the Hot Animals had Turtle Island choked down under siege. That's not good news for anybody, because if Turtle Island can't stop them, nobody can. The good people of the fort are overwhelmed in numbers and by the insanity and violence that has arrived outside their walls. But nobody said Dr. Hanover was "good people." When things look bleak, heroes arise. And antiheroes sometimes do good despite themselves. Innocent lives hang in the balance. And to survive, they will need to shed some of their innocence.

Issue #2

The Surgeon, Ch. 2: The Siege

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In Chapter 2, traveling westward, looking for work and running from her past, Dr. Jenny Hanover has arrived at the surprisingly prosperous fort of Turtle Island. Not exactly tricked (but perhaps taken advantage of) by the fort's manager, Ernie Martinez, Hanover agrees to train the fort's militia in close-combat swordsmanship -- a skill they lack. Hung over and grouchy on a blisteringly hot morning, Hanover is teamed up with Master-at-Arms Dave Rogers to scavenge steel for new militia blades. Far from home, the salvage squad is attacked by a brutal gang of robbers and chased overland back to Turtle Island. The salvagers have arrived at the gates to the fort, and as the gates close, Hanover and her faithful steed Old Paint have deliberately remained outside to settle a score. Here they come.

Issue #1

The Surgeon, Ch. 1: Turtle Island

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In Chapter 1, Turtle Island, we follow Doc Hanover as she answers a call for medical help that takes her farther west than she’s been -- away from the violence and anarchy she knew back east and away from her past. At the feet of South Dakota’s Black Hills, she finds a surprisingly prosperous and peaceful fort, where destiny has plans for her.