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Henry Johnson tries to run from his past by assuming a new identity, only to realize that his sins will soon find him out, in this hair-raising mystery/thriller that is a haunting mix of Rod Serling meets David Lynch! Where is Hell? Who is the Devil? Zachary Bell is about to find out. Zachary Bell is a rising star in the world of advertising and his trendy, often controversial commercials are a direct reflection of his personal affairs. A married father of two daughters, Zach is anything but a family man. A blossoming career and sordid lifestyle of infidelity and Hollywood-style parties are common substitutes for school plays and family picnics. One stormy September night, while driving home from a party with his co-worker and mistress Judith Sample, Zach falls asleep at the wheel. When he awakens a few seconds later, his car is careening out of control toward a steep embankment. As the car plunges over the hillside, it plunges Zach's life into a realm of unspeakable terror. While in a comatose state, the result of trauma suffered during the accident, Zach experiences an evil only Hell itself could unleash. When he emerges from that coma, he soon comes to realize that the evil wasn't merely a dream and that the life into which he awakens no longer belongs to him. The Lobby is available for purchase from Amazon and Barnes & Noble Derrick Slywall formed the Guardian Angels in New York City to help the NYPD combat street crime, but as crime decreased, law enforcement was deemed obsolete. Thus, the police became deperate for work by turning a blind toward crime and becoming corrupt while trying to eradicate the Guardian Angel of their beloved city. Issue 1 of 3. A FREE Look at three done-in-one comic book stories, including Xeric winner "Jazz: Cool Birth." 1. The Xeric grant winning book "Jazz: Cool Birth" is a murder mystery in a 1957 jazz bar, with art and type inspired by '50s album cover design. The result is like nothing you've ever seen in a comic book before, a rich melange of bebop for your glims, a righteous groove without notes, dig? Put on some Monk, Miles or Coltrane and enjoy. Full page graphics and integrated '50s style type from Beatty. "This is a major cool comic title...which absolutely captures the flavor of jazz clubs in the late '50s. It's unlike any other comic out there. A fantastic blend of art and text...It really puts the graphic in graphic novel. The most different comic twist I've read this year." -- Paul Bishop, Bish's Beat 2. The vampire "hero" of "Seductions" is caught in a maddening cycle. He wakes 10 years after each feeding. The world changes around him and only two things remain: his desire to feed and a yearning for a long lost love. Not your mother's romance story! The book features impressive pencils by "Oz," "Dark Oz" and "Land of Oz" illustrator Bill Bryan and computer-over-pencils coloring by Beatty. "Shot from artist Bill Bryan's compelling pencils and enhanced by Beatty's colors, Seductions draws the reader into the vampire's hunt for 'life' and love. One feels his pain even as one loathes his manipulative manner. Complete unto itself, this comic book is another satisfying done-in-one presentation. Seductions earns four Tonys." -- Tony's Tips! by Tony Isabella, Comic Buyers Guide #1644 3. In "Adam Among the Gods," the lead character is an ugly, deformed creature surrounded by a race of beautiful, immortal humans. Adam was an early mistake by geneticists before they perfected the process that lead to a perfect world. Then things fall apart. Clean, streamlined art and inking from "Saint Germaine" artist James Lyle in a comic-within-a-comic format from Beatty. "From the get-go, Beatty gives us characters with whom we can sympathize...He also provides an engaging story at a crisp, but not rushed pace, with a satisfying conclusion...all in one issue...Adam Among The Gods is worth seeking out." -- Mark Allen, Suspended Animation, 4 Color Commentary.com http://www.aazurn.com 14p preview of Rebirth by Corbin Dailey Maria, a young woman who so far has lived a simple life, is about to have her whole world turned around. Upon getting a job at DEP Genetics, not only does she meet the man of her dreams, but she is asked to go on a trip for the company, to the land she was born in, yet had never seen before. Yet as excited as Maria is over this new job, an air of deceit shrouds the employee’s of DEP. As Maria falls further, and further in love with Jupiter, her eye’s are blinded to the truth that surrounds her. The members of DEP Genetics have had other plans for Maria for many years in mind, and will do anything to protect their plans. Maria’s fate awaits her in her homeland, Yet Jupiter’s love for Maria will not let any harm come to her. The most important question to ever be asked will determine her awaited fate. Once in a lifetime rare opportunities are thrown our way, how we achieve our goals in life are dependent on the choices we make. If you had the choice of being reborn into power, wealth, and immortality, or to remain the person you were born as, what would your choice be? To contact Corbin about this release, please e-mail nvymn1@yahoo.com with the word "Rebirth" in the subject line. To purchase the print editions of Rebirth, please visit AuthorHouse.com 4p full issue of Scottish-based publication, Mystery Magazine. Mystery is a music zine run by some students based in Scotland. It generally focuses on new and upcoming independent artists in the local and wider UK music scene, with past interviewees including current hype bands Glasvegas, Johnny Foreigner, Frightened Rabbit and Broken Records. Issues are produced a couple of times a year, and distributed online, through local record shops and at gigs. For information & updates on Mystery, please visit http://www.freewebs.com/mysterymagazine & http://www.myspace.com/mysterymagazine 19p preview of Missing White Girl by Jeffrey Mariotte Lulu Lavender has been kidnapped. Her family has been brutally murdered. With the sheriff's office consumed by a high-profile case of a missing white teenager from a prominent family, it falls to Patrol Lieutenant Buck Shelton to investigate Lulu's abduction. The trail leads Buck to the Arizona/Mexico border and a dark world of bizarre supernatural forces, desperate power seekers, vigilantes and drug dealers, and ultimately to a bloody showdown between good and evil—with an innocent girl caught in the crossfire… For more information on Missing White Girl, please visit http://www.jeffmariotte.com/missing.html To purchase a signed copy of this release, go to http://mg.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?&s=showproduct&affiliateId=JJM&isbn=9780515143089 24-page action/superhero/comedy comic in black and white about a ninja muslim who is hated by the police yet helps them fight crime in the wild street of New York City. $3.00 6p full issue of Scottish-based publication, Mystery Magazine. Mystery is a music zine run by some students based in Scotland. It generally focuses on new and upcoming independent artists in the local and wider UK music scene, with past interviewees including current hype bands Glasvegas, Johnny Foreigner, Frightened Rabbit and Broken Records. Issues are produced a couple of times a year, and distributed online, through local record shops and at gigs. For information & updates on Mystery, please visit http://www.freewebs.com/mysterymagazine & http://www.myspace.com/mysterymagazine A 12p preview of Stories from Alterna Comics. A collection of four off-beat tales, "Raw Brain" features a pair of gunfighters riding into a strange little town for revenge on the man who performed strange experiments on them, only to encounter creatures not of this world and learn that the world is much larger and mysterious than they thought. "Toilet" features a comic creator and his girlfriend debating the pros and cons of making comics with profanity, sex, and violence. In a short conversation, they wonder how to keep them out of the hands of children -- and if they even should. The differences between American and European ways of life and thought are examined. In "Unseen", a man slowly starts to lose his mind as his vision of reality crumbles around him. Nightmares and visions become waking dreams as he feels the eyes of unknown creatures watching his every move. He looks for some kind of solace in the presence of his girlfriend, only to find the horror has invaded very close to home. "White Death" is about the experiences of Finnish sniper Tero Toivanen during the 1939-1940 Finnish-Soviet "Winter War". Tero wonders about the humanity of killing and war in general as he tries to survive. He has the most kills of any sniper in history, until his career is ended by a facial wound with an explosive bullet.
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