FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



STRANGEWAYS creator Matt Maxwell announces the webcomic serialization of the STRANGEWAYS series of graphic novels. Beginning today, the first chapter of MURDER MOON is online, complete with frontspieces by artist Steve Lieber (WHITEOUT, UNDERGROUND). Chapter two (new to the web) begins serialization next week, with the entirety of the book to follow.

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Following the completion of MURDER MOON’s online run, the second STRANGEWAYS book, THE THIRSTY will run its entirety, including a sixty-page backup story that was not run during THE THIRSTY’s initial serialization at Robot 6. In addition, the pages will be re-lettered and new art by Alex Sheikman (ROBOTIKA) will be featured.
STRANGEWAYS: THE THIRSTY cover line art by Alex Sheikman

About STRANGEWAYS

STRANGEWAYS is the story of ex-Union officer Seth Collins as he wanders the haunted frontier of a United States recovering from the Civil War. Just like the nation, he has his own scars to heal. The west of STRANGEWAYS has its own terrors. Instead of gunslingers and renegades, something more sinister and less human waits in the shadows. The first STRANGEWAYS book, MURDER MOON is currently available through Amazon.com, and of course the web, if you’re patient.

Murder Moon is a thoughtful, intelligent story of brooding werewolves and tough-as-nails cowboys that never lets up on the pace; full of action, pathos and downright fun

– David Wellington, author of Monster Planet and 13 Bullets.

Is Maxwell bringing back the Western AND Suspense-Horror at the same time? Then I’m on board, riding shotgun. Strangeways, here I come!

– Jeff Parker, writer of The Incredible Hulk and Agents of Atlas.

Originally planned as a comic book series, the first STRANGEWAYS book, MURDER MOON was self-published as an original graphic novel after the dissolution of original publisher Speakeasy Comics. Previous to STRANGEWAYS, creator and author Matt Maxwell was best known as a comics commentator. His column “Full Bleed” ran originally at Broken Frontier in the early 2000s and then again at Comics Waiting Room, and occasionally at his own weblog Highway 62 – highway-62.com. He has also written for Robot 6, The Beat, Newsarama and Dark, But Shining.

He posts far too often on Twitter - @highway_62