Hey all;

THE FIVE FISTS OF SCIENCE, a graphic novel by myself and the amazing Mr. Steven Sanders, will be published by Image Comics in May, 2006 with the following order code:

MAR06 1824

The solicitation in the forthcoming PREVIEWS reads as follows:

FIVE FISTS OF SCIENCE GN
written by MATT FRACTION
art & cover by STEVEN SANDERS
May 17 • 112 pg • FC • $12.99

True story: in 1899, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla decided to end war forever. With Twain's connections and Tesla's inventions, they went into business, selling world peace.

So what happened?

Only now can the tale be told-- in which Twain and Tesla collided with Edison and Morgan, an evil science cabal merging the Black Arts and the Industrial Age. Turn of the century New York City sets the stage for a titanic battle over the very fate of the mankind.

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The cover art that's gone around to date has been, in my mind, half-finished. I was able to get my friend Maiko Bunny Lover Decoylab Kuzunishi Bunny-- her preferred Professional Name, I am assured by alcoholic hobos for whom she's designed bindlestiff decals-- and is, as far as I'm concerned, utterly amazing.

See that very tiny thumbnail back up top there? Click HERE to see the front cover and click HERE to see the back. These are larger files-- in the 230-280K range-- so as to allow for more detail. Bloggers, news folks, hype-ists, and anyone else, feel free to grab those images and send them around or post them.

That said, they're still compressed GIF images, and as such the detail of her font-work on that back cover is kind of obliterated. So: here's the back cover copy:

SCIENCE!
No longer the realm of the fop, the dandy, or the physicist!
SCIENCE!
No longer the purview of landed gentry or the monied upper classes
SCIENCE is TODAY! SCIENCE is NOW!
SCIENCE IS FOR YOU!

Come one and come all, to this, a grand old adventure
in a brand new tradition
the penny dreadful
the pulp adventure
the escapist fantasy
the pictotrash compendium
THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
THE FIVE FISTS OF SCIENCE

join
MR. MARK TWAIN
(aka Samuel Clemens)
-- and --
MR. NIKOLA TESLA
(aka Master of Lightning)
in a white knuckle thriller
AS THEY SAVE THE VERY WORLD

not recommended for the soft or the sissy
the weak at heart
or
the dull of mind

THE FIVE FISTS
of SCIENCE!
TWAIN! TESLA!
AMERICA:
You cannot spell “action & adventure” without
T & T
!!!

As told by Messers Fraction & Sanders, Kansas City, Missouri
and published by Image Comics, Berkeley, CA.

AT LONG LAST
SCIENCE FOR THE COMMON MAN
SCIENCE FOR THE WORKING MAN
SCIENCE FOR EVERY MAN!
Fear it! Feel it!

THE FIVE FISTS
of SCIENCE!
Do you dare
READ IT?

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More to come.