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  • We’ve been thrilled with the response we’ve gotten to our holiday(and post-holiday) DVD sale on the AC web store. Tons of happy customers have taken advantage of the sale prices of $12.95 for all cliffhanger serial two-disc sets, and $9.95 for all SF, horror and adventure singWe’ve been thrilled with the response we’ve gotten to our holiday(and post-holiday) DVD sale...

    Last Days of the DVD Sale by Mark Heike

    We’ve been thrilled with the response we’ve gotten to our holiday(and post-holiday) DVD sale on the AC web store. Tons of happy customers have taken advantage of the sale prices of $12.95 for all cliffhanger serial two-disc sets, and $9.95 for all SF, horror and adventure singWe’ve been thrilled with the response we’ve gotten to our holiday(and post-holiday) DVD sale…

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  • Price: $9.95     Bigger and better than ever, this issue features 87 PAGES OF ALL-NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN story and art!! Beyond John Nadeau’s breathtaking digitally-painted cover, you’ll read the stunning conclusion to the long-running “Living In Synn” storyline, in a 24-page lead feature written by Mark Heike, with art by Rock Baker and Jeff Austin. Learn the REAL reason behind...

    Femforce 158

    Price: $9.95     Bigger and better than ever, this issue features 87 PAGES OF ALL-NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN story and art!! Beyond John Nadeau’s breathtaking digitally-painted cover, you’ll read the stunning conclusion to the long-running “Living In Synn” storyline, in a 24-page lead feature written by Mark Heike, with art by Rock Baker and Jeff Austin. Learn the REAL reason behind…

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  • Angel Avengers 03: Femme Fatales will be online and available for purchase in a matter of hours. I’m actually typing this article up as I wait on the files to complete their final render. This installment will see all three Angels take on Big Joel Nekoda and his henchmen in a major showdown. Cult movie mad man Joel Wynkoop finally gets...

    New Angel Avenger – MetalGypsy by JohnJG

    Angel Avengers 03: Femme Fatales will be online and available for purchase in a matter of hours. I’m actually typing this article up as I wait on the files to complete their final render. This installment will see all three Angels take on Big Joel Nekoda and his henchmen in a major showdown. Cult movie mad man Joel Wynkoop finally gets…

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  • Way back in the halcyon days of 1990, legendary AC creator The Count, A.K.A. Richard Rome wrote and drew the now-classic story “Stardust Memories” (with a little help from Your Truly on inks) in FEMFORCE #26. It was in commemoration of the transplanted Rurian’s birthday, and she made a solo pilgrimage to Earth’s satellite to perform a native ritual, which...

    Stardust: BACK On The Moon In 2012 by Mark Heike

    Way back in the halcyon days of 1990, legendary AC creator The Count, A.K.A. Richard Rome wrote and drew the now-classic story “Stardust Memories” (with a little help from Your Truly on inks) in FEMFORCE #26. It was in commemoration of the transplanted Rurian’s birthday, and she made a solo pilgrimage to Earth’s satellite to perform a native ritual, which…

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  • Another one of my favorite-but-unheralded artists from the Golden Age of comics is the ubiquitous Rudy Palais. Extremely prolific from the early 1940′s through the mid- 1950′s Rudy’s artwork appeared within the pages of almost every publisher’s offerings at one point or another, in a wide variety of genre’s, from adventure to humor, funny animal, teenage, horror and war. (...

    Remembering Rudy Palais by Mark Heike

    Another one of my favorite-but-unheralded artists from the Golden Age of comics is the ubiquitous Rudy Palais. Extremely prolific from the early 1940′s through the mid- 1950′s Rudy’s artwork appeared within the pages of almost every publisher’s offerings at one point or another, in a wide variety of genre’s, from adventure to humor, funny animal, teenage, horror and war. (…

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  • Movie madman and digital genius JohnJG brought something to my attention within the last week or so, something that had previously escaped my notice. Since THE very FIRST, OFFICIAL AC Comics comic book (Fun Comics #4, by the way ) actually rolled off of the presses in December of 1982; this year of 2012 will mark 30 years of AC...

    30 Years of AC Comics by Mark Heike

    Movie madman and digital genius JohnJG brought something to my attention within the last week or so, something that had previously escaped my notice. Since THE very FIRST, OFFICIAL AC Comics comic book (Fun Comics #4, by the way ) actually rolled off of the presses in December of 1982; this year of 2012 will mark 30 years of AC…

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  • Price: $9.95     Another superb cover by Will Meugniot!! With Synn’s reality-warping powers seemingly out of control, the FEMFORCE have taken her to The Colorado Project for a medical intervention. But it’s not always wise to leave your health in the hands of a doctor who comes from another planet, with a couple of assistants who happen to be...

    Femforce 157

    Price: $9.95     Another superb cover by Will Meugniot!! With Synn’s reality-warping powers seemingly out of control, the FEMFORCE have taken her to The Colorado Project for a medical intervention. But it’s not always wise to leave your health in the hands of a doctor who comes from another planet, with a couple of assistants who happen to be…

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  • FEMFORCE has received an initial nomination for an award in the “Favorite American Comic Book- Black and White” category for the prestigous 2012  Eagle Awards, presented annually by British comic book fandom. Established in 1976, The Eagles are actually the oldest awards established to honor special achievment in the comic book industry, beating out the US’s Harvey and Eisner awards...

    FEMFORCE nominated for an Eagle by Mark Heike

    FEMFORCE has received an initial nomination for an award in the “Favorite American Comic Book- Black and White” category for the prestigous 2012  Eagle Awards, presented annually by British comic book fandom. Established in 1976, The Eagles are actually the oldest awards established to honor special achievment in the comic book industry, beating out the US’s Harvey and Eisner awards…

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  • The trick to no-budget filmmaking is “making do” with what you have.. and when you don’t really have much of anything to start with you ultimately must find creative ways to stretch every dollar and recycle elements from previous films to aid in the assembly of all subsequent films. Finding places to shoot is one of the most difficult tasks, and...

    One Room, Many Sets by JohnJG

    The trick to no-budget filmmaking is “making do” with what you have.. and when you don’t really have much of anything to start with you ultimately must find creative ways to stretch every dollar and recycle elements from previous films to aid in the assembly of all subsequent films. Finding places to shoot is one of the most difficult tasks, and…

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  • Later in my life after finishing college and a hitch in the army, I tried my hand at making a Republic type serial as Don Glut had done years earlier. In homage to such titles as ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE, I titled my effort BLOODSUCKERS FROM OUTER SPACE. The idea was to combine the cliffhanger action genre with the horror...

    Bloodsuckers Serial by Bill Black

    Later in my life after finishing college and a hitch in the army, I tried my hand at making a Republic type serial as Don Glut had done years earlier. In homage to such titles as ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE, I titled my effort BLOODSUCKERS FROM OUTER SPACE. The idea was to combine the cliffhanger action genre with the horror…

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  • The 21st Centurions: New Clear Day color graphic novel has shipped from Diamond Distribution, and can be found in comic shops right now. Why is it worth checking out? Well, online columnist and writer Eric Lindberg had this to say about the 21st Centurions : “This series has a number of innovative and quirky elements that make this comic stand...

    21st Centurions GN In Stores by Mark Heike

    The 21st Centurions: New Clear Day color graphic novel has shipped from Diamond Distribution, and can be found in comic shops right now. Why is it worth checking out? Well, online columnist and writer Eric Lindberg had this to say about the 21st Centurions : “This series has a number of innovative and quirky elements that make this comic stand…

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  • Recently I was discussing filmmaker DON GLUT with Chris Casteel. Both Don and I made amateur horror movies when we were in high school… back in the dark ages, pre video, using 8mm cameras with no sound. Although we lived over a thousand miles apart and never knew of each other, our films were very similar and I wondered if...

    Spy Smasher vs. The Purple Monster by Bill Black

    Recently I was discussing filmmaker DON GLUT with Chris Casteel. Both Don and I made amateur horror movies when we were in high school… back in the dark ages, pre video, using 8mm cameras with no sound. Although we lived over a thousand miles apart and never knew of each other, our films were very similar and I wondered if…

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  • Stormy Tempest Vs. The Mossman. Coming in 2012! Principle photography was completed January 9 on a new STORMY TEMPEST feature, the first Nightveil Media production of 2012. Stormy Tempest faces off against a MOSSMAN monster (as created by Chris Casteel) and a new adversary VELOCITY BLAZE (Autumn Sage). Also returning is bounty hunter CLAYTON THE SLEEPER (Pierce Knightley). Filmed on location in the...

    It’s A Wrap! New Stormy Tempest in 2012 by Bill Black

    Stormy Tempest Vs. The Mossman. Coming in 2012! Principle photography was completed January 9 on a new STORMY TEMPEST feature, the first Nightveil Media production of 2012. Stormy Tempest faces off against a MOSSMAN monster (as created by Chris Casteel) and a new adversary VELOCITY BLAZE (Autumn Sage). Also returning is bounty hunter CLAYTON THE SLEEPER (Pierce Knightley). Filmed on location in the…

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