From the Publisher
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color is a good thing. Variation in color is better still. There’s merit to the
choice to reduce cover are to a trichromatic De Stijl evocation, and there’s
merit to sayin g “Fuck all that, can we have some blue?” So we did the first
thing, and now we’re doing the second. Deal with it, dorks.
So in this blue and green (and black and white and red) issue, we have continuations
of existing series so as not to spook the readers. The star and ship from Cantilever
Jones Lands Hard a few issued back returns in Cantilever Jones Swings Low, in which the
hero bickers with his familiar and deals with creepy space monks who may or may
not be exploiting a young girl. It’s part 1 of 2, so you’ll only get a partial answer to
that question, which is no answer at all. Selah.
There follows two more chapters of our serial novel, Ulysses and the Fugitive.
Chapter 15 has our two secondary characters drinking to steel their souls for the
attempt to detach our protagonist from his plight. In Chapter 16, the protagonist
does like protagonists do, and does what he must. It feels very like what they call a
Second Plot Point, so keep your eyes peeled.
Ansel Horst closes things out with his third Drunk Vampire Hunter story. This one
involves witches. I like this Drunk Vampire Hunter guy. He’s got moxie, and a
mouth. He doesn’t particularly have brains, but if you hang around intellectuals,
like I do, you become aware of the limited value of book learnin’. Pretty colors are
better.
Enjoy.
Thomas Fitz
Publisher