#ec tyler

[nomagicartz]

ohhhh nooooo i dropped my executioners choice setyler drawings everywhereeeeeee

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Epitaphs from the Abyss #7 by Cullen Bunn, Tyler Crook, Chris Condon, Dustin Weaver, Matthew Rosenberg and more. Variant covers by (1) Joëlle Jones and (2) Jay Stephens. Main cover (3) by Lee Bermejo. Out in January 2025.

"SOMETIMES... NIGHTMARES DO COME TRUE! IN THE NEW YEAR, EC COMICS DARES YOU LOOK EVEN DEEPER INTO THE UNEXPLORED RECESSES OF YOUR IMAGINATION AS THE TOPSELLING HORROR SERIES OF 2024 ENTERS ITS UNRELENTING SECOND ACT! This month: Our beloved hosts—the Grave-Digger, the Tormentor, and the Grim Inquisitor—usher you forth into three velvet-lined tales of darkness and deceit... and then seal you inside! Relax and embrace the decomposition yet to come as storytellers and fellow victims Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun), Chris Condon (Night People), and Matthew Rosenberg (DC vs. Vampires) gulp their last remaining breaths alongside grisly artists Tyler Crook (Harrow County), Dustin Weaver (Avengers), and more! STAY CALM, THAT RELENTLESS BANGING WILL ONLY WEAR YOU OUT MORE QUICKLY!"

[graphicpolicy]

Oni has announced that Epitaphs From the Abyss #1 and Cruel Universe #1 will receive no second printings

Oni has announced that Epitaphs From the Abyss #1 and Cruel Universe #1 will receive no second printings #comics #comicbooks

[darkmaga-returns]

by Tyler Durden

Former Wall Street money manager Ed Dowd is a skillful financial analyst who said in May the economy was skidding. Now, Dowd predicts the economy is poised to “roll over” and soon.

Why is the Fed cutting rates with a record high DOW? Maybe they see the same thing he does. Dowd explains, “Real weekly wage growth was minus 2% going into the election. It is also interesting to know that minus 2% number of wage growth was also in 1980 when Ronald Reagan won in a landslide and also in 1992 when Bill Clinton won in a landslide…"

"I have never seen such blatant manipulation of government statistics.

There is government spending and government hiring to paper over what is truly a bad economy for the average man. When I was asked prior to the election who do you think will win the election, I said Trump has already won, according to the economic statistics. That’s why he won. Bobby Kennedy helped along with Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, lots of people switching and what have you. What really got Trump in was the economy, the real economy, not the stock market.

It was not the ‘everything is hunky-dory’ pablum from the mainstream media.

The real economy has been rolling over, and we are just waiting for the financial markets to figure this out.

When they do, Trump is going to inherit a turd of a financial market crisis.

Government statistics will be updated, and it will show we started a recession sometime this year…

The incoming Trump Administration has to get out in front of the narrative. This was already baked into the cake. They just got handed fraudulent books. So, they are basically going to get blamed for what is coming.

They have to get in front of the narrative and talk about what they were handed. They need to talk about how the stock market is not a real indicator of economic health like it was before the days of raw manipulation.”

[ZH: We have been endlessly reminding readers for the last six months that the 'always positive' macro headlines that appear every day after almost ubiquitously revised down in later months, hiding the reality that set the scene for Trump's almost unprecedented victory in the election - despite the endless charade promoted by legacy media that 'everything was awesome', it clearly wasn't (and isn't) and the rug-pull is coming.]

[cryptofmadness]

ComicsPRO 2025: Oni Press Bites into BLOOD TYPE #1 – A Monstrous New EC Comics Milestone from Superstar Creators Corinna Bechko & Andrea Sorrentino Beginning in June! 

PORTLAND, OR (February 19, 2025)  OUT OF THE PAGES OF EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS . . . A MONSTROUS NEW EC COMICS MILESTONE BEGINS THIS JUNE! In advance of this year’s annual ComicsPRO Comic Book Industry Meeting in Glendale, CA, Oni Press – the multiple Eisner and Harvey award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comic books and graphic novels since 1997 – and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to announce that the next chapter in the blockbuster resurrection of the immortal EC Comics will be written this June in BLOOD TYPE #1 – the FIRST ISSUE of A TERRIFYING NEW KIND OF HORROR SERIES from Hugo Award-nominated writer Corinna Bechko (Cruel Universe, Green Lantern: Earth One) and Eisner Award-winning artist Andrea Sorrentino (Gideon Falls, Old Man Logan)! Rising from the pages of her first appearance in last fall’s EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #3, EC's own blood-splattered, bon vivant vampire will be making history as the first character to claw her way out of an iconic EC Comics short story . . . and into the first-ever standalone, serialized horror series from the most notorious name in terror!

“Since day one, it’s always been our intention to push the boundaries of the revitalized EC Comics line at Oni Press into new and unexpected territory. First came our fleet of new anthology series – beginning with EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS and CRUEL UNIVERSE – which shattered our own already-high expectations to become Oni’s best-selling new series in more than a decade,” said Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson. “Now, with BLOOD TYPE #1, we’re gearing up for something even more radical: the first-ever continuation of EC Comics anthology short, picking up the thread of how one lone vampire lost at sea will soon wash ashore on a tropical isle, where she is not the only creature with a taste for flesh and blood. Trenaciously twisted and hilariously brutal in the true EC manner, Corinna’s cleverly killer instincts are a perfect accent for the macabre art of Andrea Sorrentino – one of the best horror artists anywhere today. You’d have to be dead already to justify missing this book!”

WHEN YOU'RE A VAMPIRE, EVERYBODY SUCKS . . . SOONER OR LATER! Meet Ada, an immortal vampire whose misdeeds have landed her on the doorstep of an idyllic Caribbean resort. . . . An island paradise teeming with wealthy tourists and superstitious locals—an ample food supply for the thirsty vamp looking to get away from it all!  But as Ada stalks the boundaries of her new hunting ground, she'll soon become embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse by moonlight . . . as an older, wiser, and entirely different kind of predator reveals its own carnal hunger for greed and power. Who will survive when a brand-new kind of BLOOD TYPE declares war on a cunning bloodsucker with nothing left to lose . . . and what will be left of them?!

Picking up in the immediate aftermath of Ada’s first appearance in the titular short story “Blood Type” from EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS #3, BLOOD TYPE is intended to be the first in a new slate of semi-regular EC Comics limited series that will spotlight and continue a select few of the razor-sharp short stories introduced in the pages of EC’s monthly anthology titles – be they horror, science fiction, fantasy, or more. Before BLOOD TYPE #1 arrives in comic shops everywhere this June, readers can rediscover the killer short that first launched Ada into infamy inside the pages of EC PRESENTS BLOOD TYPE #0 – Oni’s 2025 Free Comic Book Day release by Bechko and artist Jonathan Case (Green River Killer), alongside other fan-favorite shorts from EC”s first year at Oni Press by creators Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead), Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine), Kano (Gotham Central), and Matt Kindt (BRZRKR, Mind MGMT) with an all-new cover by Eisner Award nominee Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz, Harrow County). 

“Horror has just always been where I've felt most at home, something Andrea and I have in common,” said writer Corinna Bechko “With BLOOD TYPE we've cooked up a wicked tale that expands on a character I fell in love with as soon as I put her on the page. Does she love me back? Not a chance, and that's her charm. She's a vampire, but that doesn't mean she sparkles or is ready for romance. She is, however, ready to take over a tropical paradise.”

“I think horror is just my thing,” said artist Andrea Sorrentino. “I've worked on many different things like superheroes and sci-fi in my career, but when it's up to horror, this is where I feel at home …The opportunity to connect with the deepest fears of the reader through some imagery is a great and satisfying challenge. This is why when I've been asked if I was up to collaborate with EC Comics (one of the greatest of the comic horror producers) for two short stories first and then the launch of this exciting new limited series, it has been an honor for me. I can't wait to join Corinna Bechko and my long time collaborator Dave Stewart on colors for this new, amazing project. It's going to be a lot of fun and I can't wait for readers to put their eyes on what we are doing here!”

As a revolutionary new entry in the EC Comics canon, BLOOD TYPE #1 will lead off a new wave of gloriously bloody new wave EC series at Oni Press across Summer 2025. Stay tuned for more news on EC’s upcoming SUMMER OF FEAR in the weeks ahead as BLOOD TYPE prepares to bite deep! 

“I can't wait for folks to read BLOOD TYPE,” said Bechko. “EC Comics are more relevant now than ever and I hope we've honored that tradition while doing something brand new with this longer tale. Won't you join us for the scariest vacation of your life?"

Featuring covers by Miguel Mercado (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Andrea Sorrentino (Bone Orchard), Albert Monteys (Universe!), and Naomi Franq (Black Hammer: Barbalien), BLOOD TYPE #1 seeps into comic shops everywhere on June 18th.

Blood Type #1

WRITTEN BY CORINNA BECHKOART BY ANDREA SORRENTINO

COVER A BY MIGUEL MERCADO

COVER B BY ANDREA SORRENTINO

ON SALE JUNE 18, 2025 | $4.99 | 32 PAGES | FC

COVER A BY MIGUEL MERCADO

COVER B BY ANDREA SORRENTINO

About Oni Press

Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, K. O’Neill’s Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, Ezra Clayton Daniels' Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, and many hundreds more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward’s diversified global media company, Polarity.

The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics.

About EC Comics

As the birthplace of TALES FROM THE CRYPT, MAD MAGAZINE, WEIRD SCIENCE, and more of the most influential and celebrated comic series ever published, EC Comics has cemented itself as one of the central nerves of American pop culture with a legacy that spans more than seven decades. From 1944 to 1956, EC – established as "Educational Comics" by founder M.C. Gaines and later rebranded "Entertaining Comics" under the leadership of Publisher & Editor William M. Gaines – led a creative renaissance for the comics industry that, for the first time, elevated the once-derided comics medium into the echelons of English literature and high art. Heralded as "one of the great explosions of vox-pop literature" by Time Magazine and "fiercely honest, politically adversarial, [and] visually masterful" by The Comics Journal, EC's line of comics books - which collectively sold more than 10 million copies annually at their peak – entertained and informed in equal measure, using brilliantly crafted tales of horror, science fiction, satire, and battlefield conflict to critique and subvert America's dark impulses toward violence, racism, inequity, environmental destruction, and war. 

Forcibly shuttered by the Comics Code Authority – a pro-censorship group specifically tasked with eradicating EC's illuminating influence from the American comic book industry – in 1956, EC's unique brand of subversive storytelling lived on through the continued success of MAD Magazine, which would fuel American counterculture through the death of Publisher William M. Gaines in 1992. EC's titles and stories have been adapted in a number of media – including the long-running HBO's long-running TALES FROM THE CRYPT franchise of television series and feature films – and continue to be celebrated by multiple generations of comic creators, filmmakers, comedians, and musicians as a seminal influence. 

Today, EC Comics' canon of classic stories can continuously be found in print through new editions at Dark Horse Comics, TASCHEN, Fantagraphics, and IDW Publishing. In 2024, EC announced a new partnership with multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher Oni Press to produce the first all-new EC Comics titles in nearly 70 years. 

[dirtyriver]

EC Comics Presents Blood Type FCBD, cover by Tyler Crook

[zhindian]

The spoilers for next week’s Smackdown are horrible. If you don’t to read my opinion or the results, please skip:

Pete Dunne & Tyler Bate def. The Judgment Day’s Dominik Mysterio & JD McDonagh via pinfall (on McDonagh after a double power bomb). Tag champs Finn Bálor & Damian Priest tried to attack post-match, but their EC challengers escape and lay out JD & Dirty Dom again on their way to the back.

Dom’s still losing even though he didn’t take the pin. JD doesn’t deserve to keep being treated like cannon fodder, and Damian and Finn look like idiots!

If I hadn’t already set things up on my server to watch this I’d skip it. Sorry Rhea, but I’m not watching just for you to win against Nia Jax or to find out what we already know like Becky winning the Chamber.

Speaking of which:

Tiffany Stratton def. Liv Morgan via pinfall. Bianca Belair was ringside and Stratton was able to pin Morgan after something happened between Liv & Bianca.

Why is Liv already losing when she just came back and is on a revenge tour? I don’t give a damn about Tiff and now it’s pretty glaringly obvious she hates Becky is going to win.

As a Naomi fan, I now get what Liv fans were feeling. I’m gonna do a post about that soon.

[pbxkreal]

Echoes by Pink Floyd (1971)

Eclipse by Pink Floyd (1973)

High Hopes by Pink Floyd (1994)

Apostate by Swans (2012)

To Be Kind by Swans (2014)

Pieces of the Puzzle by PBXK (2025)

Sweet Talk by SPELLLING (2021)

THE SOLITARY BRETHREN OF EPHRATA by LINGUA IGNOTA (2021)

HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING? by Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter (2023)

Posing for Cars by Japanese Breakfast (2021)

aisatsana [102] by Aphex Twin (2014)

Amber Waves by Ethel Cain (2025)

Strangers by Ethel Cain (2022)

Neverland by Marillion (2004)

True Love Waits by Radiohead (2016)

Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead (2000)

Videotape by Radiohead (2007)

I'd Rather Sleep by Kero Kero Bonito (2014)

Rest Stop by Kero Kero Bonito (2018)

Well Rested by Kero Kero Bonito (2022)

Red Dust by billy woods (2019)

Mortal Man by Kendrick Lamar (2015)

Compton by Kendrick Lamar (2012)

DUCKWORTH. by Kendrick Lamar (2017)

Mirror by Kendrick Lamar (2022)

HiiiPoWeR by Kendrick Lamar (2011)

thoughts and prayers by christtt (2018)

Exist by Avenged Sevenfold (2016)

I Know The End by Phoebe Bridgers (2020)

Out of Reach by Billy Cobb (2017)

Houses and Buildings by Billy Cobb (2018)

V. The Closet by Billy Cobb (2019)

Burden by Billy Cobb (2019)

Ludo and Hoggle by Billy Cobb (2020)

Pink Lemonade by Billy Cobb (2022)

Whatsername by Green Day (2004)

Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance (2006)

ARE WE STILL FRIENDS? by Tyler, the Creator (2019)

Riot! by Earl Sweatshirt (2018)

Hell For It by Danny Brown (2016)

Bass Jam by Danny Brown (2023)

Spiral of Ants by Lemon Demon (2016)

Miss Understood by Little Simz (2021)

Freedom by The Scorpio Brothers (1974)

M.I.A. by Avenged Sevenfold (2005)

IZ-US by Aphex Twin (1997)

28 organ 1.1 [ru,ec,+9] by Aphex Twin (2017)

Futura Free by Frank Ocean (2016)

죽음 by father2006 (2015)

untitled by father2006 (2016)

world to come by father2006 (2020)

Crime of the Century by Supertramp (1974)

Jeremías 17-5 by Canserbero (2012)

Hurry Up, Tomorrow by The Weeknd (2025)

Until I Bleed Out by The Weeknd (2020)

Phantom Regret by Jim by The Weeknd (2022)

PSO J318.5-22 by PBXK (2025)

Violent Crimes by Kanye West (2018)

Cudi Montage by KIDS SEE GHOSTS (2018)

Saint Pablo by Kanye West (2016)

Doughnut by TWICE (2022)

Siembra by Rubén Blades and Willie Colón (1978)

Stars by fun. (2012)

Blood Creepin by Death Grips (2011)

Hacker by Death Grips (2012)

Artificial Death in the West by Death Grips (2012)

Bottomless Pit by Death Grips (2016)

The Raven That Refused To Sing by Steven Wilson (2013)

Glass Arm Shattering by Porcupine Tree (2005)

Hurt by Nine Inch Nails (1994)

SAKURA by ROSALÍA (2022)

Astronomy by Blue Öyster Cult (1974)

RIP by death's dynamic shroud

Dee, It May All End Tomorrow by my little airport (2004)

Seekers Who Are Lovers by Cocteau Twins (1996)

Ella Megalast Burls Forever by Cocteau Twins (1998)

and all the other ones good ngiht

oh so the last song on the album is really mindblowingly good? how original. really nice. should we throw a party. do you want us to call dark side of the moon. can uou play it again pretty please

[newsnexttech]

Fission Simulator Melts Down RP2040

We’ve seen a lot of projects based on the Pi Pico, but a nuclear reactor simulation is a new one. This project was created by [Andrew Shim], [Tyler Wisniewski] and another group member for Cornell’s ECE 4760 class on embedded design (which should silence naysayers who think the Pi Pico can’t be a “serious” microcontroller), and simulates the infamous soviet RMBK reactor of Chernobyl fame.  The…

[wankerwatch]

Lords Vote

On: Mental Health Bill [HL]

Baroness Tyler of Enfield moved amendment 47, after clause 51, to insert the new clause Mental Health Commissioner. The House divided:

Ayes: 49 (89.8% LD, 8.2% XB, 2.0% Green) Noes: 129 (93.8% Lab, 3.9% XB, 1.6% , 0.8% DUP) Absent: ~676

Likely Referenced Bill: Access to Mental Health Services Bill

Description: A Bill to provide for establishing maximum waiting times and establishing standards for access to evidence-based psychological therapies for those with mental health problems; and for connected purposes.

Originating house: Commons Current house: Commons Bill Stage: 2nd reading

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Liberal Democrat (44 votes)

Addington, L. Barker, B. Beith, L. Benjamin, B. Bowles of Berkhamsted, B. Brinton, B. Clement-Jones, L. Dholakia, L. Featherstone, B. Foster of Bath, L. Fox, L. Garden of Frognal, B. German, L. Grender, B. Hamwee, B. Harris of Richmond, B. Humphreys, B. Hussein-Ece, B. Kramer, B. Ludford, B. Mohammed of Tinsley, L. Newby, L. Northover, B. Oates, L. Pack, L. Parminter, B. Pidgeon, B. Pinnock, B. Purvis of Tweed, L. Russell, E. Scott of Needham Market, B. Scriven, L. Sharkey, L. Sheehan, B. Smith of Newnham, B. Stoneham of Droxford, L. Suttie, B. Thomas of Gresford, L. Thomas of Winchester, B. Thornhill, B. Thurso, V. Tope, L. Tyler of Enfield, B. Walmsley, B.

Crossbench (4 votes)

Alton of Liverpool, L. Meston, L. O'Loan, B. Stevens of Birmingham, L.

Green Party (1 vote)

Bennett of Manor Castle, B.

Noes

Labour (121 votes)

Alexander of Cleveden, B. Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, B. Anderson of Swansea, L. Bach, L. Beamish, L. Beckett, B. Berger, B. Blackstone, B. Blake of Leeds, B. Blunkett, L. Boateng, L. Bradley, L. Brennan of Canton, L. Brown of Silvertown, B. Browne of Ladyton, L. Caine of Kentish Town, B. Campbell-Savours, L. Carberry of Muswell Hill, B. Chakrabarti, B. Chandos, V. Chapman of Darlington, B. Clark of Windermere, L. Curran, B. Davies of Brixton, L. Debbonaire, B. Donaghy, B. Donoughue, L. Drake, B. Dubs, L. Eatwell, L. Elliott of Whitburn Bay, B. Evans of Sealand, L. Faulkner of Worcester, L. Gale, B. Golding, B. Goudie, B. Grantchester, L. Griffiths of Burry Port, L. Hacking, L. Hain, L. Hannett of Everton, L. Hanson of Flint, L. Hanworth, V. Harman, B. Harris of Haringey, L. Hayman of Ullock, B. Hayter of Kentish Town, B. Hazarika, B. Hendy of Richmond Hill, L. Hendy, L. Hermer, L. Hollick, L. Howarth of Newport, L. Hunt of Kings Heath, L. Jones of Penybont, L. Jones of Whitchurch, B. Katz, L. Keeley, B. Kennedy of Cradley, B. Kennedy of Southwark, L. Kingsmill, B. Kinnock, L. Knight of Weymouth, L. Lawrence of Clarendon, B. Layard, L. Lemos, L. Leong, L. Levitt, B. Liddell of Coatdyke, B. Liddle, L. Lister of Burtersett, B. Livermore, L. Longfield, B. Mann, L. Mattinson, B. McCabe, L. McIntosh of Hudnall, B. McNicol of West Kilbride, L. Mendelsohn, L. Merron, B. Monks, L. Moraes, L. Morgan of Drefelin, B. Murphy of Torfaen, L. O'Grady of Upper Holloway, B. Osamor, B. Pitkeathley of Camden Town, L. Pitkeathley, B. Ponsonby of Shulbrede, L. Rafferty, B. Ramsay of Cartvale, B. Rees of Easton, L. Reid of Cardowan, L. Rook, L. Royall of Blaisdon, B. Sahota, L. Scotland of Asthal, B. Sherlock, B. Sikka, L. Smith of Basildon, B. Smith of Malvern, B. Snape, L. Spellar, L. Stansgate, V. Taylor of Bolton, B. Taylor of Stevenage, B. Timpson, L. Touhig, L. Tunnicliffe, L. Turnberg, L. Twycross, B. Warwick of Undercliffe, B. Watson of Invergowrie, L. Watson of Wyre Forest, L. Watts, L. Wheeler, B. Whitaker, B. Whitty, L. Wilson of Sedgefield, L. Winterton of Doncaster, B. Young of Old Scone, B.

Crossbench (5 votes)

Aberdare, L. Butler-Sloss, B. Carlile of Berriew, L. Kerr of Kinlochard, L. Mawson, L.

Non-affiliated (2 votes)

Fox of Buckley, B. Livingston of Parkhead, L.

Democratic Unionist Party (1 vote)

Weir of Ballyholme, L.

[nomagicartz]

bunch of nonsense doodles ive done when not working on comms and ec (ignore that 2/3 of these are ec related)

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Epitaphs from the Abyss #2 by Matt Kindt, Tyler Crook, Jason Aaron, Jorge Fornés and Klaus Janson. Cover by Lee Bermejo. Variant covers by (2) Adam Pollina and (3) Jay Stephens. Out in August.

"EC COMICS PROUDLY PRESENTS… ANOTHER EPITAPH THAT'S GOOD UNTIL THE VERY LAST BALLOON POPS! In this month's terrifying festival of fright: Three ALL-NEW tales of depraved intention and traumatic tension—culled from the fingertips of death-addled writers Jason Aaron (Thor, Southern Bastards), Matt Kindt (BRZRKR, Mind MGMT), and writer/artist Tyler Crook (Harrow County), and forever wedded to the bloodstained brushstrokes of artists Klaus Janson (The Dark Knight Returns) and Jorge Fornes (Batman)! THREE UNRELENTING NAIL-BITERS FROM FIVE MASTERS OF THE COMICS TRADE… You'd have to be CRAZY to miss this—or DEAD!"

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Author Interview of Suzanne Woods Fisher

A Year of Flowers

Suzanne Woods Fisher

Revell Pub

Nov 19th, 2024

A Year of Flowers by Suzanne Woods Fisher is a heartwarming read. In this collection of four novellas, three former friends have found success in the floral industry, but happiness and love remain elusive. The novellas follow the three former friends, Jaime, Claire, and Tess as they take a journey from leaving their sanctuary of Rose’s Flower Shop in Sunrise, North Carolina, as teenagers, to returning years later. Each story explores their reflections on the past of what happened that fateful day that chose them to leave, and why they are returning.

The first novella, An Apology in Bloom, has wedding florist Jaime Harper on a meteoric rise, working for an event company led by a successful and way-too-handsome boss. When a letter arrives from her past mentor with an offer too good to pass up, she decides to head back to her mentor’s flower shop.

The second novella, A Bouquet of Dreams, has Claire Murphy confronting her past, needing to start over, and realizing the best place to do it is to return to the flower shop she worked in as a teen. 

The third novella, A Field of Beauty, has Tessa Anderson buying an acre of farmland to start her flower farm and forget the past. There is a bit of a love triangle between Tyler, her boyfriend, and Dawson, her business partner.  

In A Future in Blossom, Jaime, Claire, and Tessa return to their hometown, finally ready to face each other and their beloved mentor, flower shop owner Rose Reid. As they unite to pull off an extraordinary wedding, amid the flurry of preparations, they just may find their way to forgiveness. This final story ties everything together, revealing Rose’s mentorship and the events that drove the friends away. 

Each novella is rich with details about flowers and floral competitions. But the real theme of the books is its focus on friendship that has fragility, heartbreak, and repair. Romantic relationships are present, but friendships take center stage, showing how misunderstandings can break people apart with hope and forgiveness bringing them back together. Each story was compelling, and all were tied together in the fourth novella by an underlying mystery which would only be solved when the women returned to the North Carolina flower shop to meet up with Ruth again.

Elise Cooper: How did you get the idea for the story?

Suzanne Woods Fisher: It is a collection of a four-part novella centering around flowers.  Each novella was released separately over a course of the year with the fourth one part of this collection. I wanted to show how flowers have a universal appeal where everyone loves them. I even put this quote in at the beginning of the book, “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”

EC: Novellas versus novels.  In the “Ice Cream” themed books, it did not take center stage like in these flower books.  Why?

SWF: The flowers are the theme that kept the girls connected even though their lives took them in three different directions.  Flowers was still the focus of their lives. With the ice cream books the characters had other things going on.

EC: How would you describe Liam, the featured male in novella one?

SWF:  He is a planner, creative, kind, accessible, optimistic, humorous, a good listener, and romantic.  Plus, he has a Scottish accent.

EC:  What about Jamie?

SWF: She wants to be validated, southern, sweet, easily intimidated, nervous, guilt-ridden, and obsessed with Liam. She lacks a great deal of confidence and does not realize how talented she is. 

EC: What about the second novella’s female lead, Claire?

SWF: Restless, capable, vulnerable, sarcastic, direct, opinionated, has a temper, lonely, and has trust issues. She felt rejected, hurt, and rebuffed by Chris Reid.

EC:  Why the symbolism for different flowers, is it true?

SWF:  Yes.  Yellow roses mean that someone wants you as a friend.  Yellow carnations mean rejection, red roses romance, two-tier carnations mean parting… This comes from the Victorian Age in England.  It is subtle way of sending a message to someone.  Now there is not that much attention paid to the language of flowers. I put in this quote, “Flowers are not merely tokens of beauty.  They have meaning and purpose. Things are not what they seem.” We still hold on to some of the language because most people see red roses as love.

EC: How would describe the second novella’s male lead, Chris Reid?

SWF: Stubborn, charming, angry at times, grief stricken, admirable, and spiritual.  A reformed juvenile delinquent. 

EC:  How would you describe the third novella ‘s female lead, Tessa?

SWF: Determined, a hard worker, jealous, can be aloof, and was naïve. There is one scene where she is out in the dirt with dirty overalls and fingernails.  Her gorgeous looks got her into trouble, yet here she feels beautiful.  Beauty is not something that is looked at, but something that is felt. 

EC:  What about her soon to be fiancé Tyler?

SWF: He is a chauvinist, takes advantage of her, self- absorbed, articulate, well groomed, politician personality with a silver spoon upbringing. He wants Tessa to be a trophy wife. I intentionally attributed the same quote to him that her neighbor told her. 

EC: How about her partner in the flower business, Dawson?

SWF: Hard worker, helpful, knowledgeable, and uses compost. It is a huge part of farming where the waste breaks down into the soil. He and Tessa seem to ignore their feelings or do not realize their feelings.  Unlike, Tyler she feels she can always be herself with him.  He does not seem dazzled by her and is at first just a friend. 

EC: How would you relate the three women?

SWF:  Jamie was the artistic one, Claire the managing type, and Tessa was the supplier.  They worked in harmony and inspired each other. 

EC:  The florist who owned the shop, Rose Reid, what was her role?

SWF:  She was the mentor of the three. She really invested in them to bring out the best in them. She saw something in them that they did not even see in themselves. She was very hurt when they left her. She was a more of an aunt to them. 

EC: Next books?

SWF: Capture the Moment is contemporary fiction, the first in a series, set in the national parks, coming out in early May. I young woman Kate Cunningham, a zoo photographer was given an offer by a National Geographic editor, to take a unique picture of a Grizzly Bear in the wild. There is a poacher in the park that is after the same bear.  Both Kate and the poacher want to shoot it.

In October the second of the Amish doctor books will be published. These are hybrid Amish because there are a lot of non-Amish characters. It is titled A Hidden Hope. “Dok’s” practice has been everywhere since the local news wrote a story on her. To help, her husband gets the idea to send in an application to a program that will send two medical school graduates. She must mentor two residents with all book knowledge and no people knowledge.

THANK YOU!!

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ComicsPRO 2025: Oni Press Bites into Blood Type #1 – A Monstrous New EC Comics Milestone from Corinna Bechko and Andrea Sorrentino

ComicsPRO 2025: Oni Press Bites into Blood Type #1 – A Monstrous New EC Comics Milestone from Corinna Bechko and Andrea Sorrentino #comics #comicbooks #comicspro

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Epitaphs From The Abyss #7 Main Cover Reveal!

Posted by Chet Reams

The main front cover for issue 7 of EC Comics' Epitaphs From The Abyss series has been posted on PREVIEWSWORLD. The cover artwork is illustrated by Lee Bermejo. Crypt Of MADness magazine is proud to share it with you below:

Keep in mind, readers, that EC's Epitaphs From The Abyss series is currently set to run for a total of 12 issues! This means we are getting near the end of what is projected to be the first run of EC Comics' first new series in seventy years!

Epitaphs From The Abyss issue #7 goes on sale at comic book shops on January 22, 2025!

Solicitation text is as follows: "SOMETIMES . . . NIGHTMARES DO COME TRUE! IN THE NEW YEAR, EC COMICS DARES YOU LOOK EVEN DEEPER INTO THE UNEXPLORED RECESSES OF YOUR IMAGINATION AS THE TOP-SELLING HORROR SERIES OF 2024 ENTERS ITS UNRELENTING SECOND ACT! This month: Our beloved hosts-the Grave-Digger, the Tormentor, and the Grim Inquisitor-usher you forth into three velvet-lined tales of darkness and deceit . . . and then seal you inside! Relax and embrace the decomposition yet to come as storytellers and fellow victims Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun), Chris Condon (Night People), and Matthew Rosenberg (DC vs. Vampires) gulp their last remaining breaths alongside grisly artists Tyler Crook (Harrow County), Dustin Weaver (Avengers), and more! STAY CALM, THAT RELENTLESS BANGING WILL ONLY WEAR YOU OUT MORE QUICKLY!"

And the comic book's Diamond Distributors Order Code, for comic shops to order it with, is NOV241720 .

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On The Re-Nomination of a Failed Candidate

This is an interesting historical oddity- that of the re-nomination of a (in this case, presidential) nominee that had ran once, failed, but was chosen a second time by their party.

The first example (we are not going to count the messes that were created by the original loser-becomes-VP thing) is Charles Pinckney, who ran against Thomas Jefferson in 1804 as the nominee of the Federalists- and then after being slaughtered in the electoral college, was re-nominated again in 1808 just in time for a (albeit significantly less so) second ass-beating in the EC. In both elections he was crushed in the popular vote, winning a paltry 27% in 1804 and 32% in 1808.

1824's election was inconclusive, and the results were split over 4 main candidates, with 3 of the 4 (excluding William Crawford) would run again in future elections, with eventual winner in 1824 John Quincy Adams becoming eventual loser in 1828, and stubborn loser Andrew Jackson becoming stubborn winner in 1828. Henry Clay, known by his moniker "The Great Compromiser", would run again several times- we'll get back to him.

After JQA's loss in 1828, Henry Clay would win the National Republican (sometimes referred to as the Anti-Jacksonian Republicans, to differentiate them from the Republican Party of today) ticket, but would lose to Jackson, whose nativist, nationalist populism had struck a chord with the voters (white men).

After Jackson's ally and successor Martin Van Buren served one term (1836-1840), and the political establishment was shaken by the sudden death of newly-elected William Henry Harrison in 1841 and the following disputes and incivility of the presidency of John Tyler, who finished out Harrison's term, Clay was nominated once again in 1844, this time as a Whig (a party born out of a merger between the National Republicans and the Anti-Masonic Parties.) He would once again lose, albeit by an incredibly slim measure of less than 40,000 votes. Clay would die in 1852. It was the end of an era for those who had loved "The Great Compromiser"- it would become clear over the following years that there was to be no compromise on the issue of Slavery.

I'll split this into two parts.