Welcome to the second weekly installment of Kid Houdini and the Silver Dollar Misfits! We hope you enjoy our second offering and invite you to join us next Wednesday as we learn the identities of the mysterious “watchers in the dark.”

Thank you for reading, and, if you enjoy the story thus far, please help spread the word!

-Dwight L. MacPherson (With Worth Gowell and Kevin Conley)

After an extended hiatus, Styx Taxi is returning to the site’s weekly line-up, starting this Thursday with a story worthy of the Halloween season, “Federico”, with art by longtime ChemSetter Tom Williams (Oni Press’ No Dead Time, the Chemistry Set’s Stuck with Vito Delsante).

Styx Taxi is an ongoing series of stories about New York’s only taxi service for the dead. The ghostly drivers of Styx Taxi offer the souls of the recently-deceased the chance to cross back through the veil, to take two precious hours and make peace with the life they’re leaving behind. Contentment and closure, that’s their goal.

“That premise gets a sharp tweak with ‘Federico”,” says Goldman. “Dom, one of Styx’s drivers, has to help a soul get out of an unusual prison: his own body. Someone’s turned Federico into a zombi, and whoever it was, they won’t take kindly to someone undoing their hard, horrifying work.”

Styx Taxi started as a print series in 2003, published by FWDbooks, and will continue to straddle the print/web divide. The first three one-shots, Pastrami for the Dead, A Little Twilight Music, and As Above, So Below are all still available from the publisher at styxtaxi.fwdbooks.com.

Check out the series that Newsarama called “a thinking person’s comic full of deep writing and incredible energy,” and that J.M. DeMatteis called “sharp, challenging, touching.”

“Federico” will serialize on Styx Taxi’s usual Thursday slot starting November 8th, with other stories to follow.

Welcome, travelers, to the glorious 44th installment of The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo!

I would like to remind you that the first volume is still available from your local comic shop, or from online services like Amazon.com.
The benefit of buying the graphic novel is that you are privy to “The 8 Lost Pages of Poo” which are only available in the graphic novel. So please… pick up a copy and enjoy these secret lost pages. It’s good stuff–I promise.

Oh, and I just received this e-mail from an industry legend that made my day:

“I loved the art, and found the story engaging… I enjoyed what I read quite a bit.” - Kurt Busiek

Kurt’s one of my favorite writers, so I could not wait to share this morsel with you.

Okay, enough of the jibber jabber, I’m back to work.

Thanks again for joining us!

-Dwight L. MacPherson (With Thomas Boatwright and Thomas Mauer)

Threads of Red Jack - Demalogue, page 2, by Daniel Kibblesmith and K. Thor Jensen.
K. Thor Jensen signing books tonight, Friday, 11/2/2007, 8-10PMat Jim Hanley’s Universe, NYC.

And so we hit week three of our serial adaptation of The Gloom. We’ve had a couple of comments which is nice, but this week we want to know who’s reading this, who’s enjoying it, so everyone, please - leave a note in the comic comments column!

In other news, anyone in the UK rejoice! For I shall be signing copies of Hope Falls, Midnight Kiss and Starship Troopers books 1 and 2 next Saturday the 10th of November at the Leeds Thoughtbubble Comic Con - I think I might be on a panel or two, and have a signing time of 4pm - 5.30pm with Adi Granov and Barry Kitson, who are both way more famous than me and therefore will be signing much more that me…

Anyway, here are the comics!