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MOONSTONE MONDAY-MOONSTONE IN JUNE!!
MOONSTONE RELEASE-JUNE 2011!
The SPIDER: Judge, Jury, & Executioner HC
Story: Robin W. Bailey, Will Murray
Art: J. Anthony Kosar, Cortney Skinner
Cover: Gary Carbon
ISBN: 978-1-936814-05-3 978-1-936814-05-3
140 pgs, grayscale, HC, $20.99
The very first Spider tpb collection ever!
Get the complete run of the first series of the most violent and relentless crime fighter of all time! Justice served!
Contains: The Spider Judgement Knight #1-3, “Chaos Maker”, and The Spider short from The Phantom Noir #6.
BONUS: Exclusive to this volume: a BRAND new Nita and Ram team up story!
DOMINO LADY: Blonde Ambition Lt Ed HC
Author: Nancy Holder
Art: Steve Bryant, etc
Cover: Mark Sparacio
ISBN: 978-1936814-04-6 978-1936814-04-6
162pgs, color, HC, $41.99
This will be the only time this material is reprinted in color!
Join NY Times Best Selling author Nancy Holder as she makes sure that Domino Lady gets embroiled in all kinds of mysteries that need her special touch. She will bring the bad guys to their knees any way she can!
Domino Lady, the avenging angel
This volume collects Domino Lady #1-5 of the regular series.
BONUS: Exclusive to this volume: a BRAND new Domino Lady-Boston Blackie CTHULHU tale!!
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SHERLOCK HOLMES: Crossovers Casebook
Written by: Barbara Hambly, Will Murray, Kevin Van Hook
Cover Art: Timothy Lantz
Edited by: Howard Hopkins
240pgs, b/w, Squarebound, 6”x9”, $16.95
ISBN: 10: 1-933076-99-2
ISBN: 13: 978-1-933076-99-71-933076-99-2
ISBN: 13: 978-1-933076-99-7
Sherlock Holmes…teams up with other adventurers and investigators!
With the success of the Sherlock Holmes film with Robert Downey, Jr and Jude law, and the BBC television updating of the character (“Sherlock”), interest in him is at an all time high!
Moonstone Books is proud to present this original anthology featuring never before seen tales of the world’s first consulting detective, Mr Sherlock Holmes!
Barbara Hambly, Will Murray, Kevin Van Hook, Martin Powell, Matthew Baugh, Martin Gately, Don Roff, Win Scott Eckert, Chris Sequiera, & Joe Gentile
**See it here…a secret sequel to the classic Holmes novel “The Sign of Four”!
**Sherlock and Conan Doyle’s own “Lost World” Professor Challenger!
**Holmes teams up with one of the most famous thieves of literature, Arsene Lupin! Lawrence of Arabi?, Calamity Jane? Sexton Blake? Houdini?
The Thinking Machine?
How about Doc Savage’s father, Colonel Savage? They are all here working with Sherlock Holmes in these brand new stories!
Holmes, as he was created, in his lodgings at 221B Baker Street: Victorian London
This book keeps Holmes in his own enviroment, in the Conan Doyle tradition, with all of the customary trapping Holmes fans crave!
**Retailer incentive: any retailer who orders BOTH the CD set and the Crossovers Casebook will receive one CD radio drama sample and one free Holmes GN!!
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The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, CD’s Volume 1
5-CD Set
Retail Price: $14.98
ISBN: 9781610812016
For many long-time fans, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce will always personify Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson – but it may come as a surprise to even the most devoted Baker Street enthusiast to discover that, for one radio season, the World’s Greatest Consulting Detective was successfully portrayed by actor Tom Conway, best remembered for playing The Falcon in a series of 1940s films. Now Radio Archives is releasing a new 5-CD set of rare original radio broadcasts featuring Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce, starring in ten full-length episodes of “The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, just as originally aired over the ABC Radio Network in 1946. Transferred directly from the original master recordings and fully restored for outstanding audio fidelity!
5-CD Set
Retail Price: $14.98
ISBN: 9781610812016
For many long-time fans, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce will always personify Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson – but it may come as a surprise to even the most devoted Baker Street enthusiast to discover that, for one radio season, the World’s Greatest Consulting Detective was successfully portrayed by actor Tom Conway, best remembered for playing The Falcon in a series of 1940s films. Now Radio Archives is releasing a new 5-CD set of rare original radio broadcasts featuring Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce, starring in ten full-length episodes of “The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, just as originally aired over the ABC Radio Network in 1946. Transferred directly from the original master recordings and fully restored for outstanding audio fidelity!
**Retailer incentive: any retailer who orders BOTH the CD set and the Crossovers Casebook will receive one CD radio drama sample and one free Holmes GN!!
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SAVAGE BEAUTY #3
Story: Mike Bullock
Art: Jose Massaroli
Colors: Bob Pedroza
Cover: Dave Hoover
Ripped from today’s world news comes a reimagining of the classic jungle girl genre debuting a new hero for the modern age!
The bombastic fist story arc of your favorite new jungle girl comic is here! Lacy and Liv have cornered the slavers but who is the predator and who is the prey? Follow the trail of political upheaval down the streets of human trafficking as Lacy and Liv unleash their Savage Beauty!
Mike (The Phantom) Bullock presents a fresh new spin on the jungle girl genre, featuring real world conflicts in Africa and beyond.
“Issue Grade: A!” – The Pull Box – The Pull Box
“Fans of Adventure comics will definitely want to check this one out” – Comic Book Bunker– Comic Book Bunker
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HEAP #2
Story: Charles Knauf
Art: Sami Kivela
Colors: Renato Guerra
Cover: Rick Sardinha
32pgs, color, $3.99
The return of the original muck-monster continues!
Join CHARLES (Iron Man) KNAUF as he takes the HEAP on a journey of self-discovery through Norse magics and mythology, while sorting through the horrors of Nazi mayhem!
It is time for Midgard’s last defender to arise, amidst the devastation and inhumanity of World War 2.
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CAPTAIN ACTION King Size Special#1
Story: Steven Grant, Paul Kupperberg
Art: Reno Maniquis, John Hebert
Color: Jason Jensen
Covers: John Byrne, Mariah Benes, Mark Wheatley
72pgs,color, $5.99
THRICE the Action, as Captain Action’s Season 2 supersizes with two new episodes of the new Captain Action & Action Boy plus a new Captain Action Classified spy thriller!
Though presumed dead, Captain Action’s actually in the secret
city of Aggartha, getting a history lesson they don’t teach in schools in “Journey thru the Past” Then it’s an international catfight as the USA
vs. the UK! Lady Action battles Liberty, of the sinister new super-team, Patriot Power! As the intrigue builds to a crescendo, everyone’s asking, “Where is Captain Action?”
And in this lost tale from the swinging sixties, the original Captain Action is determined to stop the assassination of RFK. This can’t end well…
(Covers: Byrne = 75%, Benes = 25%)
**for every purchase of 3 or more, and you can buy one ultra rare MARK WHEATLEY variant cover for a retail of $6.99**
**Retailer incentive: buy 3 copies or more, and get one free!
LAI WAN: The Dreamwalker HC
Author: CJ Henderson
Art: Kieran Yanner
Cover: Michael Stribling
124pgs, grayscale, HC, $19.99
ISBN: 978-1-936814-06-0978-1-936814-06-0
Lai Wan: the Dreamwalker, seer and prophet, able to walk between realities, feared by any who embrace evil because of her one, terrible power–the ability to always know the absolute truth. At long last, Moonstone has gathered all the graphic stories of Lai Wan, CJ Henderson’s fantastic break-out character from his popular Teddy London series, into one beautiful collection, while adding two great print bonuses: a team-up between Lai Wan and Kolchak the Nightstalker, and a never-before seen novella, Terrible Anticipation, a sequel to H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror!
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ROTTEN : The Lost Diary of John J. Flynn, U.S. Agent Written by: Robert Horton
Art: Dan Dougherty
96pgs, b/w, squarebound, 6”x9”, $9.99
ISBN: 13: 978-1-936814-00-8ROTTEN : The Lost Diary of John J. Flynn, U.S. Agent Written by: Robert Horton
Art: Dan Dougherty
96pgs, b/w, squarebound, 6”x9”, $9.99
ISBN: 13: 978-1-936814-00-8
“More than just a blood-and-guts affair” (USA Today)
“Genius” (FHM).
ZOMBIES…SPIES…THE OLD WEST!
Strange accounts of the dead walking the earth.
A top-secret assignment from President Rutherford B. Hayes to investigate.
A detour on the journey West, involving none other than Jesse James.
Before the zombie mayhem depicted in the sold-out Rotten #1, Special Agent J.J. Flynn kept a diary of the bizarre events preceding his arrival in the West—all revealed here, in a document officially suppressed for generations. This bonus book to the Rotten universe fills in key elements of the acclaimed comic-book series.
MOONSTONE MONDAY-YOURS TRULY, CLIFFHANGER FICTION!
Moonstone Books and ALL PULP are proud to present a two fisted detective pulp tale from MOONSTONE CLIFFHANGER FICTION featuring the radio icon YOURS TRULY, JOHNNY DOLLAR ! This is a pulse pounder from Pulp author Eric Fein! This tale can be found in the SEX, LIES, AND PRIVATE EYES collection available from Moonstone at http://www.moonstonebooks.com/
Tune in next week for the conclusion to THE PRETTY CORPISE MATTER! And check out http://www.moonstonebooks.com/ for this and other collections and tales!
Beware the Tides of March… err… Bill O’Reilly
So, not so long ago, the American Atheist Group decided to buy a few billboards. So their president, one David Silverman, wanted to perhaps start a national debate on religion. Good idea? Well, we’ll leave that one up to the Lord (be it Allah, Ganesha, Buddha, Yahweh, Inky the Magical Leprechaun, or Stan Lee if you prefer). Billboards go up, and guess who get his panties in a bind? The answer rhymes with Shrill O’Bile-ly. Cut quickly to the O’Reilly Factor where Silverman was interviewed. And here’s where things get spicy.
During the interview, the debate whether the word “scam” is offensive is debated. And then the big guns get fired. Once Silverman dares to call organized religion “mythical”, Billy goes on the attack. “Let’s just be two guys. Not an atheist and a catholic. Just two guys…” O’Reilly throws out. Get this folks: The Tides. “They come in, and go out. Come in, and go out.” And why? According to O’Reilly… “It just happens. You can’t explain that.” Silverman, who didn’t have his high school physics book handy, forgot to PWN Bill by explaining tides move according to the gravity pull of Earth’s moon. He attempted a sidestep by saying “it doesn’t matter” that he couldn’t explain it, because at the root of his argument… explaining anything by way of an invisible man in the sky is silly. But Bill was Bill. He’d have nothing of it.
Enter the Internet. Now it’s become its own meme-in-the-making. So, ComicMixers… let’s discuss… what is there out in PopCultureLand that also can’t be explained by anything else than the mighty G-O-D? Consider this a contest folks. Use this meme-maker and post it in the comments below. Funniest meme gets a piece of the holy cross. Or a radioactive spider. Or the mighty Mjolnir. We’re not sure yet.
The Point Radio: The Next Wonder Woman?
Meet Sarah Butler – star of the new version of I Spit On You Grave! Sarah fills us in on how the remake came about, and after talking to her, we think she is a GREAT choice for the Wonder Woman reboot! See what you think…..
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It’s Official: The Movie is Called ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’
The Amazing Spider-Man is going to be the title of the next film, scheduled to come out July 3rd, 2012, and starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. There’s a new web site and everything, with a picture of that costume that’s been changed just enough to justify a new round of toys…
Reviews from the 86th Floor: Barry Reese reviews The Spider # 1
THE SPIDER # 1
Moonstone Books
The Spider
Written by Martin Powell
Art by Pablo Marcos
Operator Backup
Written by Gary Phillips
Art by Roberto Castro
The Spider was never one of my favorite pulp heroes — he was simply a little too “nuts” for my taste. I preferred The Shadow, The Avenger or The Man of Bronze. But I’ve read quite a few Spider tales over the years and I have to say that this story is one of the best. A mad scientist duo are creating lobotomized zombies and plan to do the same to The Spider’s love interest. This leads to an exciting battle between The Spider and the lumbering hordes of zombies. The art is moody and evocative, perfectly capturing the mood of the story. If I had any complaint, it would be that I wished it had been longer. Great pulpy fun and one of the best Return of the Originals products so far.
There is a backup in this issue — an Operator 5 story that continues into the next issue. The art on this one is solid and the story is interesting though the character is hardly one of my favorites. Nonetheless, it’s a solid complement to the excellent Spider tale that leads off the issue. Highly recommended for pulp fans.
I give it 4 out of 5 stars!
Kickstarter Funds The Definitive Edition of Huckleberry Finn
Recently an international controversy and debate broke out when NewSouth Books decided to publish a version of the Mark Twain classic, “Huckleberry Finn,” replacing all instances of the word “nigger” with the word “slave.” ComicMix editor Mike Gold described this as a “castrated version.”
Luckily, there is a new, soon-to-be published version of Huck Finn that addresses the offensive nature of the n-word, while maintaining (and even exceeding) the spirit of the classic Twain novel.
Neil Gaiman has described this version as, “the definitively politically correct Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” This project was proposed on Kickstarter.com as, Replacing the “N-word” with “Robot” in Huck Finn. It is, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Robotic Edition.”
From the Kickstarter proposal:
We’re editing a new version of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” that won’t be bogged down with what Mark Twain was trying to say about racism.
In part, thanks to Mr. Gaiman’s contribution of $80 and tweeting about it, in just two days, the project has surpassed its goal of raising six thousand dollars. And you still have until March 10, 2011 to donate to the cause to get your own copy of the book when it’s printed.
Prince William and Kate Middleton Become Comic Book Couple
It’s Valentine’s Day, so let’s give you a story about a good old fashioned romance comic, complete with a beautiful woman and a dashing young prince.
Cashing in on the royal wedding hoopla of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the comic Kate and William: A Very Public Love Story has been written by Bleeding Cool‘s Rich Johnston for Markosia and tells the story of the couple’s past in two parts.
The first half is told from Kate’s perspective, with a fictional diary and illustrations in the style of a 1970s girls’ comic by Mike Collins (artist on Thunderbolt and painter of the covers to my Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers stories). The second half is by the Gary Erskine and follows William from the rugby pitches of Eton to army officer training at Sandhurst before his RAF service, told by newspaper headlines and mission briefings.
Publisher Markosia calls it a “dramatic biography” with two separate stories that “come together in the middle, a fictional look at the wedding day itself, with a kiss. How could it end any other way?”
Kate and William: A Very Public Love Story is set to go on sale in stores and online on April 2 (yes, a Saturday). The wedding is planned for April 29.
One hopes it goes better for Kate in the comics than it has for Princess Diana…
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