The Stories
Gourmand Go
Written by Jason Franks. Art by Harry Purnell, Bruce Mutard, Luke Pickett, Leigh Kuilboer.
The adventures of the starship Gourmand Go, whose mission is to travel the galaxy seeking new life–to kill and eat. But when the chips are down, the crew are quite prepared to eat more… human… cuisine.
Tusk
Written by Jason Fischer, art by various.
Fantasy/SF adventures in a world where mankind has been enslaved by a race of telepathic elephants. ‘Planet of the Mastodons’. Illustrated prose.
Gun Smoke Bud
Written by Jason Franks. Art by Yuriko Sekine.
Two detectives scour the Osaka underworld for the hit crew who wiped out a Yakuza conference, but their only witness is an unemployed stoner who lives at home with his mother.
Ben Byrne’s Tales
By Ben Michael Byrne.
A dystopian future populated by cyborg lunatics and an out-of-control military proves to be as gruesome as it is funny.
Shadowmancy
Written by Jason Franks. Art by Nicholas Hunter.
The son of a bad seed sorcerer finds his own way at the mysterious magical Academy that brought his father low… but the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Expelled and powerless, but far from defeated, Quay plans a revenge that is darker than anything his masters might have conceived.
Catamorph
Written by Christopher Sequeira. Pencils by J. Scherpenhuizen, inks by Michal Dutkiewicz
When two police detectives are called out to investigate a disturbance at an old mansion, they are confronted by a living Egyptian mummy. Luckily for them an even more bizarre creature intervenes: a female beast that appears half-human and half lioness.
Kensuke
Written by Tom Bonin & Jason Franks. Art by Tom Bonin.
A disgraced samurai, Kensuke, wanders the country, living by his sword and trying to get his life in order. Many of his increasingly-strange and dangerous missions are assigned to him by the Daimyo Kenera. But Kenera is not entirely human, and his relationship to Kensuke is one of blood as well as honour.
The Scarred Man: A Taste for Immortality
Written and pencilled by J. Scherpenhuizen, inked by Greg Gates.
A Conanesque tale with a twist of Edgar Allen Poe.
