We've just received a batch of comics from NY based artist, Benjamin Marra, who's been gaining popularity in the indy scene for the past few years with his awesomely intense and hilarious comics that are sure to appeal to lovers of gritty, glitzy 80s crime, scantily clad, pistol packing women and the mother f'n NWA. This is kind of a light week, so why not try something completely different? Go ahead, don't be scared...
NIGHT BUSINESS #2
(W/A) Benjamin Marra
The saga of the urban underground continues with intense action and heavy emotional drama. Will Chastity survive her devastating encounter with the masked slasher? Will Johnny find a way to lure the killer out of the shadows of the night, into the streetlights and deliver his desparate revenge? Answers to these questions and more can be found in NIGHT BUSINESS, ISSUE 2.
NIGHT BUSINESS #3
(W/A) Benjamin Marra
The Rider, a motorcycle riding, gunslinging vigilante makes her spectacular entrance in a hail of bullets, hot metal, clouds of pungent fuel exhaust and lacy lingerie!! Who is this helmeted vixen of vengeance?! Johnny, feeling the onslaught of the strength-inducing pills he ingested last issue, is subjected to the sadistic torture of Pimp Donny and his henchmen. Will he escape from a fate worse than death itself? Find out out in this action-packed issue of NIGHT BUSINESS!!
NIGHT BUSINESS #4
(W/A) Benjamin Marra
Secrets revealed!! Discover who is behind The Slasher!! Find out if Johnny survived the warehouse explosion! Discover the evil designs Pimp Donny has in store for Krystal! The Rider continues to wage her bloody war on street crime single-handedly ... or with some help!? Steve, left to watch over Glitz Glam Entertainment, is presented with shocking information! An issue not to be missed!!!
GANGSTA RAP POSSE #1
(W/A) Benjamin Marra
It's 1991. The most notorious rap group in the world demands respect both on the street, in the recording studio and on the charts. They roll the only whay they know how: with rampant drug abuse and guns blazing in a boiling mix of hot sex and apocalyptic violence, within the cauldron that is South Central, LA. Just another day in the life of GANGSTA RAP POSSE!!
GANGSTA RAP POSSE #2
(W/A) Benjamin Marra
Because you demanded it! The most outrageous and notorious rap group in the world is back!! And this issue raises the stakes!!! The boys elude assassination attempts by corrupt police lieutenants and the mayor of Los Angeles. They take on a neo-Nazi punk rock band and their fans. But worst of all Harold Smithsonion, the lethal leader of the 70s funk band, Funk Congress International, wants GANGSTA RAP POSSE deader than disco for sampling his hit songs without permission!! Still GANGSTA RAP POSSE finds the time to turn Nazi-punk-band groupies to their flava and satisfy the wives of the board of directors of Omnicom!! Just another day in the life of GANGSTA RAP POSSE!!
LINCOLN WASHINGTON #1
(W/A) Benjamin Marra
1868, the hostile period succeeding the American Civil War. When the freed slave Lincoln Washington shows up in the small South Carolina town, Butchergrass, with coin and a deed to a plot of land the locals are none too happy about it. In particular, Jasper, the son of a wealthy plantation owner. Lincoln, accused of a crime he did not commit, must draw on centuries of racial injustice to give him the power to fight his enemies and defend his inherently human right to freedom! Witness the beginning of this Re-constructionist-Era action epic!!
ADVENTURES OF MAUREEN DOWD#1
(W/A) Benjamin Marra
Maureen Dowd, the famous and popular, Pulitzer-prize winning political opinion columnist, is about to write her most powerful and influential column ever!! She has come in possession of information that could topple the American government, destroy the White House and bring the Free World to its knees. Joined by the shadowy black-ops rogue agent, Shadow Wolf, can she fend off the assaults of fanatical White House officials and Hezzbollah commandos in time to write and deliver her column before deadline and still be on time for her third date with George Clooney? What is a girl to do?
AMERICAN PSYCHO NEWSPAPER BROADSHEET
(W/A) Benjamin Marra
Using a Raymond Pettibon approach to drafting with brush and ink, or brush pen in this case, (an aesthetic Patrick Bateman would abhor judging by his musical tastes) this is a collection of drawings inspired by the motion picture AMERICAN PSYCHO.
