Featuring 13 full comic strips, 2 prose tales and a bundle of extra features, Tales From The Plex [TFTP] is a visual literature anthology series showcasing work and characters by brand new creators. The stories in this volume include BABY BOTTLE, the story of a half-human baby monkey trapped in a jar; PERSONAL JESUS, which plays out like a madcap infomercial for a robotic messiah; FISH DRINK, a sci-fi tale about the hunt for ordinary people who have mysteriously disappeared into wormholes on the streets; MURDER FROM BEYOND THE STARS, about the death of a President and the grizzled detective trying to find the killer, even if it means blowing the head off a few more politicians to do it; BAD LUCK INC, a sci-fi horror play on what it means to give your soul to your work; and JIM REAPER, the misadventures of the cutest l’il grim reaper you’ll ever see! TALES FROM THE PLEX 2 is edited by Dann Lundie, Youri Zoutman, Stephen Sharp and Nick St Amant. For more information visit www.futurius.com.

Tales From The Plex 2 is a 160 black and white paperback retailing for US $13.99 plus shipping exclusively from Lulu.com.

You can buy a copy from Lulu HERE.

The very first anthology from Futurius: Formatted like a DVD, the book includes main features (the comics) at the front and a multitude of special extras at the back including prose stories, character design sketches, pin-ups, tutorials and more! Showcasing stories in various genres such as Superheroes, Sci-Fi, Horror and Slice-Of-Life stuff with a quirky slant! With works by Dann Lundie, Chris Bell, Chad Nevett, Jesse Farrell, Sergio Calvet, Cassie Summer, Damien Wood, Mike Murphy, Stephen Sharp, Blake M Petit, Russell Hillman, “Scary” Larry Williams, Zé Troia, Wilson Dela Fuente, King Yen Lee, Matt Weldon, Ryan Broussard, Celina Hernandez, Dave Richardson, John Nelson, Rob Larsen, Darren Schwindaman, Nate Thompson, Dave Rothe AND MORE! Edited by Dann Lundie, Chris Bell and Ronée Garcia Bourgeois.

Tales From The Plex: OGN is a 240 black and white paperback retailing for US $18.99 plus shipping exclusively from Lulu.com.

You can buy a copy from Lulu HERE!

The printers have done a bang-up job and seeing the barcode on the back of the book is a giddy thrill. The tpb will be available in bricks n’ mortar stores (providing they order copies) as well as available in Indyplanet.com’s online store so it’s pretty exciting knowing it’ll be out there.

It’s been a tough road since we started in 2004 with the Robin Node comic posters. I’ve still got a lot of them in packaging taking up space! Too sentimental to get rid of ‘em though. Then we did the two big volumes of Tales From The Plex, reformatting that title into the ongoing series, as well as the first Darkling mini. And now we’re finally getting to the proper superhero universe stuff. It feels strange. Some of the stuff coming up has been planned since I was a child, which I guess makes it a life-long dream. The original plan was to become a superstar creator with DC and work on Superman, Wonder Woman and the Legion Of Superheroes before breaking off and starting my own company. If I’d waited for that though I’d never have gotten anything of my own out.

I still don’t feel like I’m fully ready to bring this stuff out when there’s such a small fanbase in place for it. But then Superman came out without a fanbase, and through hard work and a couple of decades of amazing, awe-striking adventures he came to mean something to people. I keep wondering if someday these characters will mean something special to someone too…

Writer Corey Brotherson has provided a short commentary on his Tales From The Plex #13 cover-feature story, “A Twilight’s Promise“, over at his blog.

Check it out for some background details on this heart-rending short story about the brief nature of life.

They’ve been available to buy since last month but they’re officially 2010 product, with a Jan 2010 and Feb 2010 inner-cover date, respectively.

You can get your personal, specially made-to-order copies of Tales From The Plex #14 HERE and Tales From The Plex #15 HERE. Stories include the final two parts of the Fut multi-epic “Fut Vs A Broken Heart” by Chris J. Powers, as well as sci-fi noir crime thriller “Murder From Beyond The Stars” by “Mad” Chad Nevett and “Nice” Brice Hall, superhero murder mystery “End Of An Era” by Preston “The Trooper” Cooper and “Sarky” Mark Lauthier, politically (not to mention socially!) incorrect comedy strip “Re: Tarded” by Devon “Man-Slinky!” Winkey, a bit o’ pin-up goodness from Chris J. Powers “That Be” and “Rabbid” David Richardson plus a final tear-jerking goodbye strip from Fut and the Timebots we simply called “Fut’s Goodbye”.

A LOT of people put their heart n’ their art into this series, so give it a go next time you want something interesting to look at. I can honestly un-biasedly say there’s some really excellent, exciting and fun strips throughout this 15-issue series, and it’s well worth a read through.

And to honor Tales From The Plex, our maiden voyage into ongoing series, here’s a bit o’ music to send ‘er on her way into the darkness. G’bye, TFTP. Rest ye well.

Good reviews for both series. Hoo-Hah!

TALES FROM THE PLEX IS IN DA HOOOOOUSE!!!!!

Tales From The Plex #11
Tales From The Plex #12
Tales From The Plex #13
Tales From The Plex #14
Tales From The Plex #15

The FINAL FIVE ISSUES of this fan-favourite, award-winning (I awarded it the first ever Fut ongoing award just now!) series meets its maker(s) in FANTASTIC fashion with the joint-release of five – COUNT ‘EM, FIVE! – issues in one solid, creamy blast! Buy them NOW or become an outcast to society!

And for those of you who haven’t gotten any of the Tales From The Plex issues yet (you know who you are… and so do I! *points*) you can pick those up, along with our awesome first mini-series The Darkling, HERE.

That’s Tales From The Plex done, right in time for the end of this decade. Next decade is gonna be wild and fun so get in on this action now so you can be one of those people who says stuff like “I liked Futurius before it was popular” or “Their old stuff was better…”!

Tales From The Plex #11-15 haven’t come out yet. Our online seller, IndyPlanet, has been having server issues and are taking a while longer than usual to get things out. It shouldn’t be too long now so hopefully if you’re buying copies, you’ll have those in your hands in a couple weeks at latest.

My demo copies have arrived and everything’s beautiful. These are some of the best issues we’ve ever done and it’s awesome to have ‘em.

I’ll let you know when you can get your own ones. Til then have an awesome week!

That’s TFTP done 100% from my side of things, except for checking my copies when they arrive (again, any day now! Woot!) but judging by the proofs I got sent, everything’s gorgeously awesome!

I’m having some weird abandonment issue with the series at the mo. Now that it’s over, I’m kinda sad. That series, in its various formats, took up like five years of my life. We started it around 2004 on the Plex forum and now, at the end of the 21st century’s first decade, we got ‘er done. If this were a movie, this’d be the epilogue where the hero waves buh-bye to the magical genie-people or whatever. *sniff*

All issues will be oot the same day so there’ll be no dangling threads of plex-ness as we move into 2010. This decade’s been pretty dang rough. There’s been weird spots, horrible spots, amazing spots, and everything in-between. Really looking forward to the next decade!

Each issue will be $2.50 plus shipping. Don’t forget there’s also the 6-issue The Darkling series, which’d make a GREAT present for any young Twilight fans in your family, especially young girls.

Tales From The Spooky Plex!

Tales From The Plex #10 (Halloween special!) is out NOW, like two weeks earlier than scheduled. For the first time ever Ka-Blam added the issue to their catalogue the day I uploaded the previews. Wowza!

Synopsis blurb:

This Halloween issue features ‘TIL DEATH DO US PART By Stephen Sharp, King Yen Lee, Rob Larsen & Dave Rothe; MODERN MAN’S GUIDE TO MONSTERS By Drew Edwards & James Figueiredo; EASY MATH By Michael LaRiccia & Wilson Dela Fuente; and bonus pin-ups by Chris J. Powers and Michael LaRiccia. Edited by Daniel Lundie.

Buy your very own copy at http://www.indyplanet.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=2832 and tell ‘em I sent ya!

As promised a few weeks back, here’s the running order for the rest of Tales From The Plex:

#11 – RYAN AND BRIAN By Nick St Amant & Sergio Calvet; FOUR MONSTERS IN A SPORTS BAR By Drew Edwards & James Figueiredo; JIM REAPER By Dwight L. MacPherson & Mathieu Benoit; COOKIE BEAR By Stephanie O’Donnell.

#12 – ON THE PLATEAU By Sam Costello, Kyle Harabedian & Daniel Lundie; OUT OF SIGHT By Erian Zoutman, Chris “Banky” Sanchez & Daniel Lundie; ART SUGAR Part 1 By Michael Murphy & Celina Hernandez.

#13 – ART SUGAR Part 2 By Michael Murphy & Celina Hernandez; A TWILIGHT’S PROMISE By Corey Brotherson & Ariyana Vidya; WRATH OF JOHN By Nick St Amant & William Brian Maclean.

#14 – MURDER FROM BEYOND THE STARS Part 1 By Chad Nevett & Brice Hall; END OF AN ERA Part 1 By Preston Cooper & Mark Lauthier; RE: TARDED By Devon Winkey.

#15 – FINAL ISSUE! MURDER FROM BEYOND THE STARS Part 2 By Chad Nevett & Brice Hall; END OF AN ERA Part 2 By Preston Cooper & Mark Lauthier; FUT & FUTURIA PIN-UP By David L. Richardson; FUT’S GOODBYE By Chris J. Powers.

We’ve also got a 5-part mini-epic running through the Fut hosting sections in each of these issues: “FUT VS A BROKEN HEART”, in which our slacktastic semi-hero pits his (witless) wits against the vile but foxy Heart-Breakeress! Miss it and feel social humiliation forever!