CLAYPOOL COMICS SYNOPSES

SOULSEARCHERS #70

Shipping in January

Entry Level!

By Peter David, John Heebink, and Al Milgrom

Cover by Amanda Conner

Kelly, the young witch who s part of the supernatural investigation team Soulsearchers and Company, infiltrates the stronghold of one of their enemies, the Woodstarke Bank, and learns secrets about the Soulsearchers that even she didn t know.

SOULSEARCHERS #71

Shipping in March

Playing the Float!

By Peter David, John Heebink, and Al Milgrom

Cover by Amanda Conner

This issue reveals the Woodstarke banking empire s mysterious worldwide plot; meanwhile, the Soulsearchers become perilously overdrawn!

SOULSEARCHERS #72

Shipping in May

You Don't Say!

By Peter David, John Heebink, and Al Milgrom

Cover by Amanda Conner

This issue addresses the mysterious Mimes, their involvement in the Soulsearchers activities, and their connection to spymaster S.P. Onage. The Soulsearchers discover the Mimes home base on the Grounds of Silence and get to the bottom of this enigma.

SOULSEARCHERS #73

Shipping in July

Among the Missing!

By Peter David, John Heebink, and Al Milgrom

Cover by Amanda Conner

This issue reveals the secret behind the rash of kidnappings that has claimed seven of the Soulsearchers pals, associates, and friendly enemies.

SOULSEARCHERS #74

Shipping in September

Matriculation is for Kids!

By Peter David, John Heebink, and Al Milgrom

Cover by Amanda Conner This issue unearths the secret origin of Fear City s Golden Bough University, along with the curse that it threatens to bring from the past into the present.

SOULSEARCHERS #75

Shipping in November

A Spanking-New Hope!

By Peter David, John Heebink, and Al Milgrom

Cover by Amanda Conner

Soulsearcher Peterson s lost love Heather returns, and along with her the Cantrips, the family of demi-demons into which she s married--and for which she s bearing the new avatar.

DEADBEATS #70

Shipping in February

Dark Shadows of the Past!

By Richard Howell and Ricardo Villagran

Cover by Howell and Louis Lachance

Dracula will visit Fear City and use his unparalleled power to extract all of the secrets of the vampire lord King Hermano from brainy hero Mason Collier.

DEADBEATS #71

No One Here Gets Out Alive!

Shipping in April

By Richard Howell and Ricardo Villagran

Cover by Howell and Louis Lachance

The group of vampires known as Deadbeats adds a new, long-term fifth member, and fulfill the requirements of Dracula s five-by-five plan. This will be very bad news for some of Fear City s inhabitants, since the fifth member must initiate himself into vampirism by slaughtering his entire family.

DEADBEATS #72

The Many Faces of Brittany!

Shipping in June

By Richard Howell and Ricardo Villagran

Cover by Howell

The bipolar Brittany, restored to unlife and to her vampire lover Southie, has been shuttling between her devoted undead-lover personality and the angry woman who remembers that Southie is her murderer.

DEADBEATS #73

Stand With Me!

Shipping in August

By Richard Howell and Ricardo Villagran

Cover by Howell

Monster Hunter Dakota Kane tackles a solo case, but it raises evil specters from the past of his boyhood friend Senator Van Sloan.

DEADBEATS #74

Bloodline!

Shipping in December

By Richard Howell and Ricardo Villagran Cover by Howell

This issue reveals exorcist Randall Hanson s deep, dark secret and will explain why he extracts and saves corrupt supernatural energy after each exorcism.

DEADBEATS #75

The Unkindest Cult of All!

Shipping in December

By Richard Howell and Ricardo Villagran

Cover by Howell

The shocking return of the Bat-Cult, the crazed fanatics whose mania has already claimed the lives of the human hero Kirby Collier s parents, Adam and Rachel Collier.