A FLANGE AT THE DOOR

Greetings from the low-rent district, O.G.s. 

Of late, all has been flat and calm and much like a mill-pond which, of course, makes the icebergs harder to see. But, as we sit in the crow's nest full of malaise and self-hatred, not one but two jagged chunks of cataclysmic literary land-mass are headed straight for us. Smell ice, can yeh? Bleeding Christ...

Yes, in a the next couple of months we shall pull the proverbial finger out of our tender bums and release two new comics, the first of which is the long overdue Trenchfoot #4: A Wolf At The Door.

Readers may have virtually forgotten that we still have an ongoing concern. Our last three releases were The Blood, Giant-Sized Trenchfoot and The Biscuit Maker; a series of one-shots, prequels and spin-offs of our parent title.



So, to re-cap y'all...Since November 2009 - two-and-some-years real time - not even a whole day has passed in the Lake District. John Trenchfoot, charming cad that he is, has been beaten to a pulp by his one-time lover, the ever-tightly-clad Solar Girl. 
So, after the soppy nostalgia of his protracted dream sequence in #3, we're back to what Trenchfoot does best: baiting quiet country folk and irate Polish migrants. But there is more going on...
Over in New York (y'know, where all superheroes EVER live), Solar Girl's media-friendly team-mates are brewing for a fight, and it will not be long before they discover that John and company have been living the good life over in rain-sodden ol' England.
And who's that fella that looks like Christopher Walken and has a name awful similar to the guy that wrote Identity Crisis? That'll be John's old boss - criminal geneticist Brad Meltzen: the man who stuck the secret of super-powers up a goat's bum. As you do.

So, it's all go in issue #4, and we've got a really cool and beautifully drawn back-up feature included as well. If you read Giant-Sized Trenchfoot you'll have seen Donnell Carlton's magic, indestructible ice cream van. But whatever happened to said vehicle? You'll find out here!

And then onto our second release of the year...John Voight: Agent of F.L.A.N.G.E. #1! 

John Voight (no relation to Angelina's dad) is a retired soldier living a quiet and peaceful life in the southern USA. But when his fiancé, Bethany-Lou, is abducted and impregnated by aliens, John is forced back into action. Setting up his own anti-alien outfit - Frontline in Alien Nuisance Guerilla Entropy - the 6-foot-3 transvestite Voight becomes a one man army. But what link does his fiancé's ordeal have to John Trenchfoot's nemeses, The Starlight Squad? And what on earth will Voight do once he finds out? It's episode 1 of a titanic 2-parter, gangsta!



So, that's what's coming up on the immediate horizon...and later in the year we (promise) we'll be delivering Trenchfoot #5, as well as a few more surprises. So stay tuned, O.G.s!