ALTERNATIVE COMICS
AFTER LAND GN #1 (OF 3)
(W) Chris Taylor (A) Chris Taylor (CA) Chris Taylor
A science-fiction soap opera featuring the exploits of a no-nonsense detective named Nono, who is the composite of two females named Jo and Do. Jo has the mysterious ability to ingest the milk from the Madeleine Flower and enter an ethereal realm known as Pure Intuition where she can spy on the unconscious minds of humanity. Together, as Nono, they sell it to the highest bidder in the Cloud.
SHORT CON GN
(W) Pete Toms (A) Aleks Sennwald (CA) Aleks Sennwald
A loving and hilarious pastiche of the detective genre. Legendary kid detective "Pops" Popowski prefers to work alone. But when she's saddled with a rookie partner named Mary Branwell, Pops won't stop until she discovers who offed Mary's parents, whether Branwell wants her to or not.
SO BUTTONS GN
(W) Jonathan Baylis (A) Noah Van Sciver (CA) Dean Haspiel
Collects the choicest slices of life from ten years of So Buttons, writer Jonathan Baylis's autobiographical comics series, as well as two new stories, "So... Hallow" with art by Rick Parker and Noah Van Sciver and "So... Bejeweled" with art by Rachel Dukes. Baylis utilizes an all-star cadre of indie artists to illustrate his true-life tales including Jim Steranko, Joseph Remnant, Fred Hembeck, Dean Haspiel, Jay Lynch, Ed Piskor, and Tom Scioli.