Halloween Treats from the Geek-Girl Creative Team!

 

Happy Halloween, folks!

You can get yourself some Halloween horror with these comics from members of the Geek-Girl creative team!

The acclaimed Pirouette series from Black Mask Comics - illustrated by Geek-Girl artist C Granda - is getting collected in a TPB, coming out in November!

Raised from infancy by duplicitous clowns who entertain by day and menace by night, Pirouette dreams of washing the paint from her face and escaping to a better life far away from her cruel adoptive circus family... because when the spotlights dim and the crowd disperses, the clown princess' big-top dreams give way to a nightmarish world of monsters with painted smiles.

Pirouette Vol.1 releases Nov 18, and can be Pre-Ordered at your local comic shop now!

Featuring an early Cabra Cini story, IF-X Halloween Vol.3 sees Cabra's 'night off' at a Halloween party turn ominous - foreboding events that will be coming to the in-the-works Cabra Cini Mini-Series and her forthcoming arc in the pages of Geek-Girl! You can order the Digital Edition at Drive-Thru Comics here!

Exclusive to 616 Comics is the Ltd Variant for Vampirella #15 with cover art by John Royle, who illustrated the Ltd Variant Cover for the first issue of the Geek-Girl Mini-Series. You can Pre-Order John's Vampi Variant at 616 Comics here - and a limited number of copies of John's Geek-Girl #1 Variant have just gone up at eBay here! Both Variants are limited to 500 copies.

Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman

[UPDATED 3/19/17]

It's been a long time in the making - with a bunch of artists including Bruno Letizia, R.D. Ricci, Fernando Melek and Jorge Oliveira bringing their different flavors to the worlds and dimensions Cabra Cini inhabits; the mini-series is now nearing completion (I'm looking for one final artist to illustrate a scene that takes place in Ms. Cini's Mind-Scape) - and will debut in late-2017!

Art by Fernando Melek

For those new to Cabra Cini (pronounced 'Carbraa Cheenee): No longer willing to let her boyfriend/pimp treat her like dirt, Cabra got lethal payback with the help of voodoo magik - and liked it. Voodoo became her new addiction and Cabra has cleaned up her act and forged a deadly new vocation…

You can get in on the ground floor with the Free Cabra Cini: Dark New Year Digital Comic here (suggested for Mature Readers). This features Cabra's acclaimed debut story (originally presented in H!M Comics' IF-X) and previews the Mini-Series.

Among other things lined up for the forthcoming mini, we'll get to know Cabra at street level; witness her burgeoning relationship with f*ck-buddy Geoff; she'll be getting a 'pet' in the form of Spanish werewolf El Hombre Lobo; will take on twisted Neo-Nazi White Out (last seen in The Almighties); and she will return to bizarre dimension The Infinity ("Limbo's scary cousin, locked away in the attic"), following her traumatic outing there in Dark New Year.

Below are some sketches and previews of the above, and you'll find more to come at this blog - and plenty more at the Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman Facebook Group!...

Cabra and Geoff - art by R.D. Ricci, colors by Aljoša Tomić.

Vs. El Hombre Lobo - art by Bruno Letizia.

White Out - art by R.D. Ricci.

Return to The Infinity - art by R.D. Ricci, colors Aljoša Tomić.

The Almighties: Ms. F vs. Mr. Wang!

[UPDATED 2.9.14]

Tying into Almighties Origins, check out the Ms. F versus Mr. Wang strip from Ms. F's sold out debut in H!M Comics' IF-X vol.3 #1 here!:

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More of Ms. F in Almighties Origins - out now; get your copy FREE here!

Brand New Interview!: I talk Geek-Girl, Cabra Cini and Deadpool!

You can listen to me talking Geek-Girl, Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman, and why Cabra is Deadpool's 'spiritual cousin' with Wayne's Comics here!

Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman returns!

[UPDATED 7/12/14:]

Here's the (uncensored version of) the Press Release:

At a pivotal moment in her life, former crack whore Cabra found a new addiction--voodoo--and from there she crafted a new vocation--developing her own bastardized version of the dark art to carry out hits!

Cabra is back in H!M Comics’ IF-X vol.3 #11--in which a friend’s Halloween fancy dress party is meant to be a night off for Ms. Cini--but things prove to be as eventful and bizarre as any of her assignments!

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Written by Sam Johnson (Geek-Girl, Gold Town, The Almighties) and illustrated by Dan Lauer (Myth, Slam Dunk Kings, Zombie Highway), Cabra’s lead feature in the comic reveals a new side to her. Johnson fills us in, “Anyone familiar with Cabra Cini knows she’s a badass; she used to be in the unfortunate position of being her now-ex pimp’s abused girlfriend, and having gotten out of that ‘hole’ and found her vocation in life, she’s a much stronger woman--to the point that she’s feared by any who know her--but beneath her badass exterior, she is still a human being.”

Johnson continues, “No one has been able to get close to Cabra since she became the ‘Voodoo Lady’; though she does have physical ‘relations’ (as a former President might say) with her neighbor Geoff…

“Only, Geoff’s fallen for her. He’s been wanting to take things to the next level--for them to have a real relationship--he’s had this idea in his head for awhile, and after a couple of drinks at the party, Geoff’s going to make his move and try and break through the ‘wall’ Cabra’s put up. However--he may not like what he finds on the other side of it.”

Suggested for mature readers, Cabra Cini in ‘Bad Voodoo’ is the lead feature of IF-X vol.3 #11, Out Now, $2.99, b&w, 32 pages. The comic also features ‘Brody and Lisa’, a supernatural romance strip from Kelci Crawford; and ‘Recovery Unit’, an offbeat vampire tale from Patrick McEvoy & David Beyer, Jr.

The book is now SOLD OUT in the US and internationally, but if you're in the UK you can get it, signed, by me direct from this site using this button:

And if you didn’t catch Cabra’s debut, 'Voodoo Trespass', you can get the new edition FREE from Drive-Thru Comics by clicking on this page:

Marvel NOW! Deadpool plus the return of Cabra Cini

[UPDATED 10/26/12:]

There's currently a lot of new activity around Marvel NOW!'s forthcoming Deadpool relaunch--written by Brian Posehn & Gerry Duggan and illustrated by The Walking Dead's Tony Moore; the Deadpool #4 cover & Variant cover have now been released and you can check those out, along with the rest of the so-far-released Marvel NOW! Deadpool covers, here!:

Deadpool can also be found, making with his pop-culture-referencing humor, on other Marvel NOW! covers. As well as the 'Call Me Maybe' Uncanny Avengers one...

...there's also now this All-New X-Men one, which comes in Deadpool-in-color and b&w versions...

...riffing on the photo of Olympic gymnast favorite McKayla Maroney's facial expression when she took Silver.

Getting back to Posehn & Duggan's interview, the writers also say they're planning to stay on the book for the forseeable future, which works for me, as I'm looking forward to what they're going to bring and, having written my Deadpool pitch, though I'm glad to have it in the bag, names as big as Posehn and Moore being put on the relaunch made me realize I need to get more stuff out there and raise my profile if I'm to be considered for the writing slot after they leave (which is what I'm gunning for!).

I've got plenty of stuff in the works, but coming next is the return of Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman in the IF-X Halloween issue...

No longer willing to let her boyfriend/pimp treat her like dirt, Cabra Cini got lethal payback with the help of voodoo magik--and liked it. Voodoo became her new addiction and Cabra has cleaned up her act and forged a deadly new vocation…

Cabra's new story sees her attending a Halloween Party unlike any you've ever known, and you can check out a Preview and get it here!