www.86thfloor.com     PREVIEWS VOL. XVII #7 July 2007  

Independent Comic Publishers
(Companies beginning with P)

PAPERCUTZ

NANCY DREW VOLUME 11: MONKEY WRENCH BLUES GN
by Petrucha, Kinney & Murase
When Bess and George help Nancy pick out a dress for Deirdre's big party, little do they suspect it's the identical dress Deirdre will be wearing! After a minor altercation with the perturbed hostess, Nancy leaves the party only to be grabbed by a dark figure, tossed into a van and kidnapped! That leaves Bess and George, with some help from Ned, to try and solve the mystery of exactly what happened to Nancy. Things get complicated further when Bess and George's number one suspect, Deirdre, is kidnapped, too!
SOFTCOVER—SC, 112pgs, FC SRP: $7.95
HARDCOVER—HC, 112pgs, FC SRP: $12.95

POCKET BOOKS

THE FOG MOUND BOOK 2: FARADAWN GN
by Susan Schade & Jon Buller
After living on the Fog Mound for quite some time, Thelonius Chipmunk and his friends are ready to continue their travels in search of answers and adventure. With new friends Bill the Human and Cluid Chipmunk, the animals sail off down the river. In the City of Ruins they find the dangerous ratminks threatening to conquer the region, perhaps the whole planet! Could this be a repeat of events that brought about the end of the Human Occupation? How can one small group of talking animals help? Why is Bill so anxious to get to the mysterious island of Faradawn? And will Olive find her lost sister Ruby? As in the first book of the Fog Mound trilogy, the intrepid chipmunk pursues his personal quest to uncover the differences between history and legend, and to answer the most troubling question of all — what happened to the humans? (C: 0-1-2)
HC, 6x9, 208pgs, B&W SRP: $15.99