Want DILLON For Your Kindle or Nook?

Starting today and continuing through the holiday season the prices on the first two Dillon adventures available as ebooks have been dropped so that you and your friends can take advantage and get in on the pulse pounding excitement!

First of all, DILLON AND THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN BELL is now $1.99!  That's right, a measly buck ninety-nine!

Second and even more amazing is that the first fantastic Dillon adventure, DILLON AND THE VOICE OF ODIN is now FREE.

Yeah, you read that right.  The ebook of DILLON AND THE VOICE OF ODIN is now FREE. 

Just follow this handy dandy link to get to Smashwords where you can download them both for your Kindle or Nook or whatever.  Read and enjoy!  Now get outta here and let me get back to work.

New Pulp’s Table Talk - What's in a Translation?

After a week away to recharge the batteries, the Table Talk Team returns to New Pulp with a brand new and exciting topic. And they even brought along a couple of friends. This week, Barry Reese, Bobby Nash and Mike Bullock are joined in the conversation by New Pulpers Tommy Hancock and Van Allen Plexico as the guys discuss translating pulp characters into other mediums.

New Pulp’s Table Talk - What's in a Translation? is now available at http://www.newpulpfiction.com/ or at the direct link: http://www.newpulpfiction.com/2011/11/table-talk-whats-in-translation.html

Join the conversation. Leave us a blog comment at and let us know your thoughts on this topic.

THOUGHT PROVOKING TALES OF TERROR AVAILABLE-TOXIC REALITY NOW AVAILABLE!

Toxic Reality now available!

Halloween doesn’t have to end! Author Katherine Tomlinson’s new fiction collection, Toxic Reality is now available in all formats on smashwords as well as in Amazon.com’s kindle store.

“From cyanide and cannibalism to thought-provoking and heartrending stories to Craig List-esque killers and their curious mates and just downright creepiness, if you weren't a fan of Katherine Tomlinson's writing before this collection, you will be very soon.”                        

 –Christopher Grant, Editor/Publisher of A Twist Of Noir

“In Toxic Reality, Katherine Tomlinson proves that she’s an imaginative, masterful storyteller. She constructs realistic, likeable characters, drops them in desperate situations and watches them squirm. Her sharp sense of humor and gift for satisfying twist endings tie together this diverse and brilliant collection of crime tales.” – Chris Rhatigan, co-editor of the anthology Pulp Ink

Toxic Reality is the third collection of short fiction from Tomlinson, whose previous works include Just Another Day in Paradise, and L.A. Nocturne. Her work has been anthologized in Alt-Dead, Zombiefied, A Quiet Shelter There, and the upcoming Absolute Write speculative fiction collection.

A collection of 20 dark tales, Toxic Reality includes the Pushcart Prize nominee, “Water Sports” as well as stories that originally appeared in A Twist of Noir, Eaten Alive, Dark Valentine, and Clarity of Night.

For more information, go to:  http://katherinetomlinson.com/

To request a review copy, contact:  Katherine@storyauthority.com

Toxic Reality on smashwords:  http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/91338

Toxic Reality in Amazon kindle:  http://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Reality-ebook/dp/B005P2AG5M/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1320017528&sr=1-1

Read some reviews of Toxic Reality here:

http://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Reality-ebook/product-reviews/B005P2AG5M/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

CARDIGAN VOLUME TWO-FROM ALTUS PRESS!

The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Volume 2: 1933
Authored by Frederick Nebel

The greatest series from the pages of Dime Detective Magazine is finally collected in four large editions. Running from 1931-37, Frederick Nebel's P.I. Jack Cardigan was one of the main reasons for that magazine’s success as well as highly influential to the most popular hard-boiled writers of the day. Sadly, only a handful of the 44-installment series have ever been reprinted since their original appearances 80 years ago. This series collects the entire run.

Volume 2 continues the series and features the next 11 stories, complete, uncut, and with the original John Fleming Gould illustrations: "The Murder Cure" (January, 1933), "Me--Cardigan" (February, 1933), "Doorway to Danger" (March 1, 1933), "Heir to Murder" (April 1, 1933), "Dead Man's Folly" (May 1, 1933), "Murder Won't Wait" (May 15, 1933), "Chains of Darkness" (June 15-July 1, 1933), "Scrambled Murder" (July 15, 1933), "Death After Murder" (August 15, 1933), "Murder & Co." (September 15, 1933) and "Murder a
la Carte" (November 15, 1933).

List Price: $29.95 softcover, $39.95 hardcover
6" x 9"
372 pages

EXCITEMENT AND INTRIGUE-LATEST PAGES OF FLYING GLORY!

"None of you could save the day..."  What nightmares haunt a little girl?

The latest page of Issue 14 of "Reverberation" has been posted as part of our 10th anniversary story. Follow it at http://www.flying-glory.com/

Vince only wanted to see his girlfriend.  He refuses to give up...

The Security Guard at Tekaz may have turned Vince away, but he won't take no for an answer! Check out what he does on the latest page of FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY at http://www.flying-glory.com/

ADVENTURERS, INC. RETURNS FROM ALTUS WITH ALL NEW ADVENTURE!

Coming from Altus Press-Adventurers Inc.: Spook Trail
Authored by Jeff Deischer and William G. Bogart

Back after 65 years! The trio of heroes that make up the team of Adventurers, Inc. return for an all-new novel-length adventure: "Spook Trail" by Jeff Deischer. This pulp-sized collection is designed to look like a long-lost issue of an ADVENTURERS, INC. pulp magazine.

Issue 1 also includes the original Adventurers, Inc. story, "The Crazy Indian," complete and uncut, written by Doc Savage writer William G. Bogart.

List Price: $14.95 softcover
6.69" x 9.61"
166 pages

Cultivating The Gene Gardens

Gene Gardens is a free weekly webcomic by Shawn Granger and Jorge Mongiovi. New episodes go live on
Wednesdays at http://www.genegardens.com/.

Time has almost run out on the small blue planet, and the human race has been split into two; the mutants and the clones. Nations regrouped and reformed, the United Americas and Asia Proper being two of the emerging super powers. The wars now centralize on the hoarding and stealing of DNA, the most prized commodity on earth. Countries frequently raid one another just to steal DNA samples and clones for breeding. In Asia Proper cities the bored youth have created neo-traceur gangs, organized from stories of free runners from the 21st Century. Two in particular are big in the capital Alliance, the Le Parkours and Yamakasi. Through their eyes we learn of hidden agendas, sublime plots, and schemes that may end up breaking this already fragile world.

Gene Gardens is a story about people surviving any way they can in a ruined world they didn’t create. It’s the human experience, cloned. Gene Gardens is like a Takashi Miike sci-fi graphic novel…if he did that sort of thing. Lots of gratuitous sex, over-the-top violence and crazy situations. This is definitely for mature minded people.

"I've been working on Gene Gardens since 2004 and then Jorge joined me in 2007," says Granger of the project. "It takes us a while to get it just right. I have struggled with just the right vehicle to bring out Gene Gardens and finally settled on first publishing as a webcomic. It should allow for a more community interaction, which is one of the main threads throughout the Gene Gardens universe. I’m excited to see what happens. I also would like to put out chapters in digital form and maybe even print them eventually for fans who don’t want to wait for the Wednesday updates."

New Gene Gardens pages are posted every Wednesday at http://www.genegardens.com/.

Gene Gardens is recommended for Mature Audiences.

Amazon Slashes Black Bat Mystery Price!

Airship 27 Productions’ Black Bat Mystery Vol. One is now on SALE for $9.67 at Amazon.com, a whopping 61% off the cover price. "You are not going to find this book for a better price and just in time for Christmas," says Airship 27 head honcho Ron Fortier. "Would make the perfect gift for the pulp fan in your life."
For more information on Black Bat Mystery Vol. One, visit http://www.amazon.com/Black-Bat-Mystery-Andrew-Salmon/dp/1934935719/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320246151&sr=1-1

FROM ALTUS PRESS-THE GREEN LAMA VOLUME 2

The Green Lama: The Complete Pulp Adventures Volume 2
Authored by Kendell Foster Crossen, Illustrated by V.E. Pyles,
Introduction by Michelle Nolan

Om! Ma-ni pad-me Hum! The first of its kind, the complete adventures of the Green Lama follows the adventures of Buddhist Jethro Dumont and his aides as they battle the forces of evil in the western world.

Written by Kendell Foster Crossen, it’s non-stop action in the vein of The Shadow!

Never completely reprinted before, the series is collected in three volumes. Each volume contains an all-new introduction, focusing on a different aspect of the character’s life across several forms of popular media. Volume 2 contains an introduction by comics historian
Michelle Nolan and features the next five stories: "The Case of the Death's-Head Face," "The Case of the Clown Who Laughed," "The Case of the Invisible Enemy," "The Case of the Mad Magi," and "The Case of the Vanishing Ships."

GREEN LAMA is a trademark controlled by, and licensed from, Argosy Communications, Inc.

List Price: $34.95 softcover, $44.95 hardcover
6" x 9" 512 pages

GUEST REVIEW-CHARLES SAUNDERS' DAMBALLA!

DAMBALLA!

A Review of Airship 27’s Damballa

by Andrew Salmon

We’ve all been thrilled and enthralled by Classic Pulp. It has influenced so much of pop culture today. However for all its ability to be of its time yet ahead of its time, there is one black mark in the history of the form – racism. Now I am of the camp that believes it is not fair to judge the work of decades past with modern sensibilities. The great pulp yarns of yesteryear were products of their time, written for their time and should be read as such regardless of their faults however offensive they may be.

The New Pulp movement, however, allows us to revisit those bygone days and tell adventurous stories based in the past yet geared for the modern reader. And, more importantly, affords us the opportunity to correct the mistakes of pulp’s forefathers.

Enter: Damballa!

All of the wondrous trappings of pulp are here in this incredible work: action, adventure, evil scheming Nazis and a hero determined to foil their plot to embarrass the United States, politically, in the boxing ring – the key component here is that Damballa is a black man.

Given the classic pulp elements present in the novel, it would have been easy for Saunders to just trot out a pulp archetype and just changed the color of hero’s skin but an author of his skill and ability would not be limited to taking the easy way out. Instead Damballa has deep, African roots and an intriguing origin and supporting cast, the surface of which has only been scratched by this first adventure.

Some of you may be thinking, ‘Okay, Damballa makes history as the first black pulp hero, so what? I read pulp to be entertained. Is the book any good?’ All right let’s get down to brass tacks and tackle some questions:

What is the book about? Is it pulp?

Let’s tackle that first one, shall we? Set in 1938, Damballa gives us a fictional retelling of the real boxing re-match between Joe Louis and Max Schmelling. The real life bout had both political and racial ramifications as the German, Schmelling, went toe to toe with African-American Louis at a time when the world was on the cusp of WW2 and the Nazis were keen on proving their racial superiority. In the novel, the fighters are Jackhammer Jackson and Wolf Krieger but the stakes are the same. Thing is, the Nazis are cheating as only they can and it’s up to Damballa to level the playing field before disaster strikes. What follows is an engaging action yarn peopled with characters of every shade of gray. One of the wonderful, telling, modern touches Saunders brings to the pulp form can be found in one scene where Damballa, no slouch in the disguise department, has to masquerade as a white man to enter certain parts of 1930s society unmolested in his quest to stop the Nazis before it’s too late.

Yeah, but is it pulp?

Damballa is a pulp novel and a very, very good one. Punctuated by short, staccato chapters, Saunders keeps the story moving while layering in wonderful historical details that recreate the time period to perfection. Within this framework he inserts memorable characters, crackling dialogue, mysteries and a compelling hero for the ages. By arming Damballa with a wealth of African lore and real science to go along with brains, brawn and physical ability, Saunders introduces us to a costumed hero bad guys do NOT want to mess with. And one adventure fans won’t be able to get enough of. The book features an atmospheric cover by Charles Fetherolf and moody interior illustrations by Clayton Hinkle – the end result is one of the best looking, best reading pulp books of the year.

Damballa is one of the shining lights in the New Pulp movement, a truly exceptional novel you cannot afford to miss.

Iron Man 3 director says that Doc Savage movie ain’t dead yet

According to Blastr.com, That epic new Doc Savage movie we’ve been waiting on for eons still has some life left in it. Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout) is attached to direct the strapping hero and believes the adaptation will get his full attention once his other little comic movie, Iron Man 3, is done.

Black came aboard the project back in 2009 to co-write the screenplay, then was assigned to direct for Columbia in February of last year. It is rumored to be a period piece set in the ’30s, the era in which pulp magazines were enjoying vast popularity. Seems like a juicy gig for the pulp-loving Black’s exotic tastes.

In a chat with Comic Book Resources at last week’s Long Beach Comic Con, Black outlined the feasibility of the Man of Bronze bursting onto the big screen soon:

“If we do Doc Savage, the challenge is make it adult,” said Black. “I think that there are so few practitioners of action movies these days who are doing worthwhile stuff that it behooves me to try to weigh in and try to do the Raiders Of The Lost Ark-type stuff, to try to recapture the magic. When I stood in line for a summer movie when I was coming up at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old, I stood in line for two and a half, three hours and you got the goods! They delivered! And if they didn’t, you went outside and said, ‘Arg, Indiana Jones 2′ wasn’t that good, I stood in line for three hours!’ Now, you don’t know what you’re getting!

“There’s just, I think, a decrease in the quality of these types of comic book action movies, and so it’s almost irresistible, sometimes, to try and shore that up a little, or weigh in at least with my opinion about what’s wrong and how it should be. It’s not the next thing I want to do. I want to do something more serious, a smaller movie at some point. I’m sure there’s a Winter’s Bone in my future. But for now, I’ve immersed myself in comics. I do want to do Doc Savage. The script is still evolving and I’m kind of busy, but I want to get it right and I want to do it.”

Doc Savage was first published in U.S. pulp magazines during the glory years of the ’30s and ’40s and was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L. Nanovic. Lester Dent served as the beefy action hero’s main writer. Savage was a surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, musician and martial arts master. Raised from birth to fight crime and evil, he lived in an Empire State Building-like skyscraper and kept a secret frozen lair in the Arctic. The popular bare-chested badass would go on to appear in radio serials, film and comic books, and was reprinted for modern audiences in a series of paperbacks.

In 1975, a faithful but campy version hit Hollywood, titled Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze starring ex-Tarzan actor Ron Ely. Let’s hope Black’s rendition returns to the retro rawness and adventurous spirit infused in the original comics. Old-school heroes never die, they just keep swingin’.

Knightraven Studios Reduces eBook Prices

Press Release: Knightraven Studios Reduces eBook Prices


Effectively immediately, and running throughout the entire upcoming holiday season, Knightraven Studios has reduced the prices of all the ebook-format epic-sized Infinite Horizons novels from $4.95 down to $2.99. This includes the popular Pulp Heroes novels written and illustrated by Wayne Reinagel, More Than Mortal and Khan Dynasty, and Modern Marvels - Viktoriana. This limited time offer ends January 2.


These books can be purchased at the following locations.
http://www.amazon.com/shops/knightravenstudios
http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/knightravenstudios
http://wwwpulpheroesmorethanmortal.webs.com/InfiniteHorizonsStore.html.

About More Than Mortal:
In this completely original action story, four champions of justice, Doc Titan - The Ultimate Man, The Darkness - The Master of Shadows, Guardian - Steel and Ice Justice, and The Scorpion - The Deadliest Man Alive, are brought together for the first time to battle a deadly threat and save the Earth and mankind from absolute destruction.


More information about More Than Mortal can be found at:
http://wwwpulpheroesmorethanmortal.webs.com/

About Khan Dynasty:
Beginning in Cairo, Egypt, nearly a century in the past, a series of seemingly random events lead to danger and intrigue, as two generations of heroes race to stop a diabolical duo from unleashing a devastating wave of death and destruction. Four champions of justice, Doc Titan - The Ultimate Man, The Darkness - The Master of Shadows, Guardian - Steel and Ice Justice, and The Scorpion - The Deadliest Man Alive, race to unravel a century old mystery, and prevent the destruction of England and America, while the nations of the Earth teeter on the brink of another world war.


More information about Khan Dynasty can be found at:
http://wwwpulpheroesmorethanmortal.webs.com/

About Modern Marvels - Viktoriana:

A secret fellowship of nine incredibly unique individuals.

Trapped in a deadly battle between an ancient evil and the vampire nations.

Mankind’s last hope.

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Featuring an all-star gallery of the world’s greatest Viktorian era heroes, including:

Henry Rider Haggard as the Warrior - author of Allan Quatermain & King Solomon’s Mines

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Arthur Conan Doyle as the Doctor - author of Sherlock Holmes & Professor Challenger

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Jules Verne as the Merovingian - the Father of Science Fiction & author of the Voyages Extraordinaires series

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Herbert George Wells as the Scientist - author of The Time Machine & War of the Worlds

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Mary Shelley as the Oracle - author of Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus

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Harry Houdini as the Mage - the Handcuff King

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Bram Stoker as the Juggernaut - author of Dracula & The Lair of the White Worm

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Nikola Tesla as the Inventor - the Master of Electricity

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Edgar Allen Poe as the Raven - author of The Raven & The Pit and the Pendulum

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And Mark Twain as Himself - author of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

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Also starring:

Countess Elizabeth Báthory

aka The Blood Countess

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Varney the Vampire, progenitor of the undead species

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Aleister Crowley

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And Special Guest Star:

Count Vlad Dracula, the Prince of Darkness & Lord of the Vampires

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Paranormal investigators and adventurers.

Archaeologists of history.

Vampire slayers!!

More information about Modern Marvels - Viktoriana can be found at:
http://wwwpulpheroesmorethanmortal.webs.com/


For those folks interested in buying paper versions of these books, please feel free to visit our stores at:
http://stores.ebay.com/Knightraven-Studios, http://www.amazon.com/shops/knightravenstudios,
and for best prices, check out our new online store at http://wwwpulpheroesmorethanmortal.webs.com/InfiniteHorizonsStore.html

Effectively immediately, and running throughout the entire upcoming holiday season, Knightraven Studios has reduced the prices of all the ebook-format epic-sized Infinite Horizons novels from $4.95 down to $2.99. This includes the popular Pulp Heroes novels written and illustrated by Wayne Reinagel, More Than Mortal and Khan Dynasty, and Modern Marvels - Viktoriana. This limited time offer ends January 2.


Wishing everyone a happy holiday season!!

The Lone Ranger and Kolchak: The Night Stalker Novels Debut February 2012

Moonstone Books has announced that the Lone Ranger novel, "Vendetta" and the Kolchak: The Night Stalker novel, "The Lost City" will arrive in book stores and comic shops in February 2012.

KOLCHAK AND THE LOST CITY

Written by CJ Henderson, cover by Doug Klauba.

New thriller-novels from Moonstone! From the author of the Brooklyn Knights novels! After getting a serial killer to confess, Kolchak is offered an international assignment with massive coverage around the world. With fame and fortune finally within reach, Kolchak is ready to cover the story, when he's confronted by a mysterious monk who warns him that "the seventy-two must always be." What this means is not explained. But, before he knows it, Kolchak's dreams are invaded by unexplainable images that let him know every step he takes toward this story is bringing him closer to death.

130 pages, $4.99.

THE LONE RANGER: VENDETTA

Written by Howard Hopkins, cover by Doug Klauba.

New thriller-novels from Moonstone! From out of the past comes a mysterious killer systematically murdering anyone with a connection to the Masked Rider of the Plains former identity. When all signs point to Butch Cavendish, a man long dead, The Ranger finds himself trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the life of his faithful Indian companion hanging in the balance.

130 pages, $4.99.

Kung Fu Heading To The Big Screen?

According to Deadline (http://www.deadline.com/), Actor/Director Bill Paxton is in talks to direct Kung Fu, a screen adaptation of the classic 1972 TV series that starred David Carradine. Paxton, who’s coming off a run in the HBO series Big Love, gets the job after helming two solid films: Frailty and The Greatest Game Ever Played. John McLaughlin will write the script. The film’s being put together under the Legendary Entertainment banner to shoot partly in China next summer. It is possible that this will come under Legendary East, the Hong Kong-based joint venture that involves Thomas Tull’s Legendary, but insiders said that hasn’t happened to this point.

The original series tracked the adventures of a Shaolin monk as he wanders the American West. The monk wants peace but usually winds up using his spectacular martial arts skills to kick some serious tail, in between flashbacks of his early life in the monastery. A second Kung Fu series aired featuring David Carradine playing a modern-day descendant of his original series character and his police officer son.

Guest Review of the Week-ATOMIC ROBO REVIEWED!

ROBO POWER

A Review of Red 5 Comics’ Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science

by Andrew Salmon

“THIS ONE HAS GOT IT ALL!!”

Okay, we’ve all heard that before and, let’s face it, 99% of the time it turns out to be utterly false. But, oh, when a work falls into that precious, lofty, rare 1%, then you know you’ve found something truly special. One for the ages.

ATOMIC ROBO AND THE DEADLY ART OF SCIENCE belongs in that 1%!

Remember when comics were fun? That’s another one we hear a lot and I’m not knocking the good stuff being produced today. Grim and gritty is the way and when done well, it can truly entertain. The problem is that whenever someone makes a splash doing comics a certain way, everyone else follows suit and every comic you pick up begins to read and look the same. That can be a good thing if the quality of the work is on the page.

However too much of anything is not so good a thing and every now and then this reader likes to sit down and just get caught up in a story, be swept away in a yarn that has captivating characters, tons of action, laugh out loud humor and, because we’re talking comics, wondrous images.

This latest Atomic Robo collection is, in a word, fun. By that I’m don’t mean to say that it is merely light-hearted fluff but I am saying you won’t feel like you need a shower after reading it. This collection of the Deadly Art of Science arc contains the elements mentioned above. It does, in fact, have it all!

Also, unlike the previous four Robo collections, this one is pure pulp! Writer Brian Clevinger, artist Scott Wegener and crew have crafted a fantastic two-fisted wild ride set smack dab in the 1930s. And it is a hoot!

It’s about time we got to enjoy Atomic Robo’s origin as well. For those of you who don’t know Robo, he is the creation of Nikola Tesla and his time-spanning adventures have chronicled in the four previous collections – all of which I give my highest recommendation. If you want a preview of what his other adventures are like, the Free Comic Book Day Robo adventure, set in the present day, is included in the collection as a back-up feature and it’s indicative of what you’ve been missing if you’ve never gone adventuring with Robo before. But let’s focus on the Deadly Art of Science.

When we first encounter Robo, he is living with his creator in New York City, the year is 1930.  Robo is bored, seeking adventure – as any young robot would – but he is cooped up with his reclusive creator and can only dream of action and adventure until a run-in with pulp hero extraordinaire Jack Tarot opens the door for Robo’s adventurous life to come. Tarot is chasing down a gang bent on getting their grubby mitts on a crystal skull from Atlantis. I won’t tell you who is backing them!

Robo, finally getting this first taste of adventure, latches on to Tarot for the duration and the exchanges between the “gritty” vigilante and the wide-eyed Robo – especially when Tarot’s ace mechanic daughter takes a shine to Tesla’s creation – will have you on the floor laughing. But this beautifully crafted humor won’t take you out of the action.

Bungling, but eager, Robo tags along as Tarot and his daughter investigate the gang and Robo has to be careful Tesla doesn’t find out his creation has been sneaking out of the house... What’s that you say? A rollicking robot coming of age pulp adventure tale with gangsters, first love, humor, adventure, a giant robot with a bowler and action galore... Well, didn’t I tell you Atomic Robo belongs in that precious 1%? You’ll be on the edge of your seat, you’ll cheer, you’ll laugh your head off and you might even find a lump in your throat along the way. It really doesn’t get any better than this.

Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science is one of the best pulp releases this year, certainly the best pulp comic release of 2011. Period. I defy you to put it down once you’ve begun. I know I couldn’t. This one, folks, is an absolute gem.