Broken Frontier

The long-awaited release of several key titles from Archaia is over. Tom Siddell’s GUNNERKRIGG COURT: ORIENTATION, Jennie Breeden’s THE DEVIL’S PANTIES VOL. 2, and the MOUSE GUARD ROLEPLAYING GAME hit stores Wed, Jan 7. Make sure your store got them in and spread the word.

“I am very excited for these titles to have made the shelves,” glowed Mark Smylie, Publisher of Archaia. “We’ve been lucky to work closely with our creators who always give us their best. Thanks to Tom, Jennie, David and all of their fans for their patience. But we believe the wait was worth it. The books look beautiful. And who wouldn’t want to play a mouse in an RPG?”

Mark continued: “As for our other titles…we’ll soon be releasing the rest of our publishing schedule. Archaia is coming back in a big way with new and exciting projects, as well as our critically acclaimed titles. Yes, including Artesia.”

GUNNERKRIGG COURT: ORIENTATION (Creator: Tom Siddell, ISBN: 1-932386-34-3, Diamond Order Code: FEB083463, $26.95, 296-page hardcover, all ages). Antimony Carver is a precocious and preternaturally self-possessed girl starting her first year at gloomy Gunnerkrigg Court, a very British boarding school that has robots running around alongside body-snatching demons, forest gods, and the odd mythical creature. The opening volume in the series follows Antimony through her orientation year: the people she meets, the strange things that happen, and the things she causes to happen as she and her new friend, Kat, unravel the mysteries of the Court and deal with the everyday adventures of growing up.

THE DEVIL’S PANTIES, VOLUME 2 (Creator: Jennie Breeden, ISBN:  1-932386-36-X, Diamond Order Code: FEB083471, $19.95, 296-page hardcover, black-and-white, Mature Readers). The Devil's Panties is NOT in fact, satanic porn.  It is actually an autobiographical online comic strip about a girl in flame boots who works at a comic shop and occasionally hangs out with a pirate. Follow Jen as she goes kilt hunting at conventions with her leaf blower and discovers sparkly butterfly toys that no child should play with.  When her boyfriend has LAN parties in their garage, she hits the clubs.

MOUSE GUARD ROLE-PLAYING GAME (Designer: Luke Crane, Writers: Luke Crane and David Petersen, Illustrator: David Petersen, ISBN-13: 978-1-932386-88-2, Diamond Order Code: JUN083656, $29.95, 240-page 8 x 8 hardcover roleplaying game core rulebook). Join the Mouse Guard and defend the Mouse Territories against predators and dangers, in this roleplaying game for the Mouse Guard comic book series!  The game is intended for all levels of game-playing experience by award-winning game designer Luke Crane and is based on a simplified version of his Burning Wheel rules system.  Includes art and extensive background material on the Mouse Territories specially prepared by Mouse Guard creator David Petersen. Ages 10+ (Mild mouse-on-mouse violence.)

Be on the lookout for MOUSE GUARD: FALL 1152 LIMITED EDITION BLACK-AND-WHITE HARDCOVER to hit the shelves in February.

As always, all Archaia titles are available worldwide at finer comic book shops, bookstores, amazon.com, the Archaia Store at Indie Press Revolution (www.indiepressrevolution.com).