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Monday, May 31, 2004SLAVE LABOR GRAPHICS FOR AUGUSTFollowing are Slave Labor Graphics' solicitations for August, with information coming from the company: By Bob Elinskas, David Hedgecock, Mike Kelleher. As the saying goes, everyone gets 15 minutes of fame. That includes superheroes, supervillains and the average, everyday folks who cross their paths. However, not everyone handles their fifteen minutes the same way. For some, it means celebrity. For some, heartbreak. For some, redemption. 15 Minutes - everyone gets theirs. The first issue features two, self-contained stories. In "Return to Sender," we ask what would you do if the postman delivered you the world's most powerful weapon by accident? In "Book Covers," we find out if we're the people our kids see us as or the people everyone else sees. 24 pages, $3.95. By Evan Dorkin. SLG is totally stoked to announce the first of two volumes collecting the Eisner-award nominated series originally published by Marvel Comics in the early 90ıs, chronicling the fully awesome further exploits of those two trippy time-traveling troubadours, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted ³Theodore² Logan. Written and drawn by multiple Eisner and Harvey award-winning humor dude Evan Dorkin (with inks by totally excellent drawing-type persons like Stephen DeStefano and Marie Severin), volume one contains the Bogus Journey movie adaptation and issues #1-4, featuring zombies, aliens, assassins, some dude named Satan, and most non-non-heinious of all -- record industry executives! Along with a new cover and introduction by Dorkin, hereıs a rare chance to see a Marvel comic that was intentionally funny, brought to you by the always fun folks at SLG. Itıs not just excellent, itıs totally excellent. 168 pages, $13.95. By Scott Roberts. Patty and the kids go down to the woods for a day of adventure, but it's all spoiled when toddler Duncan McBee insists on tagging along, and the day ends in an emergency rescue. Special feature, a previously unseen story from the early, Permanent Press days. 48 pages, $4.95.
By Norm Scott Issue 7 finds the boys in danger while sightseeing! Do the brothers Tanaka have the fortitude to overcome these new perils, or will they just sorta luck out of it like usual? 24 pages, $2.95.
X-RAY COMICS VOLUME ONE: FILTH By Landry Walker, Eric Jones and Rustan Crade. Collecting the earliest comics works from the award winning creative team behind SLGs Little Gloomy and Disneys Kid Gravity. This 144 page adult oriented graphic novel explores the fun world of drug abuse, music, Jesus, cross-dressing and the usual perils of love an alcohol. Originally published by the now defunct collective known as Puppy Toss and the sometimes dead company: AEON, this series portrays the twenty-something crowd as they truly are: Selfish, stupid, angry, psychotic and desperately horny. 144 pages, $14.95.
By Black Olive. In the exciting conclusion to the series, Wren is stuck in the land of goblins and beasties in search of friends that desperately need rescuing. Dark secrets are unlocked and the mystery of Wrenıs haunting is revealed. Will she return to the living and kick the ghoulies back to where they came from, or will the dead have the last laugh? 24 pages, $2.95.
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