Heroineburgh Comics Issue #2 now available!

[shevek]

We've been busy!

The second issue of Heroineburgh Comics is now available to order online at the link below:

http://www.heroineburgh.com/comicbook-two/

Heroineburgh Comics #2 features:

Incredible front cover by Jason Wright - colorist for DC Comics whose latest work is from the Metal Men series (#1-#12)
working with writer Dan Didio (ex- DC editor in chief!) and artist Shane Davis (Starlight Cats!). Character art by Jason Wright inside.

Eight page story featuring Savanna, Panthyra and Chlorina drawn and lettered by Benjamin Zeus Barnett.

Eight page story featuring five Heroine League members, four supervillains, and a swarm of flying robots,
drawn and lettered by Wayne Brown (of the comic Like Father Like Daughter).

18 comic strips reprinted from our six-month run in the local alternative newsweekly, drawn and lettered by Benjamin Zeus Barnett
and Wayne Brown, featuring six Heroine League members and several supervillains.

Our first letter column, featuring fan art of the superheroine Arogya the Healer.

And four color pinups on the back cover by Marcel Walker (Chutz-Pow! Heroes of the Holocaust); Howard Bender (DC and Archie
Comics), Anne Strongman, and Benjamin Zeus Barnett.

24 full-color pages on very sturdy high-gloss magazine paper with a cardstock cover.
Battles with robots! Savage combat! Transformation scenes! Peril panels! Sexy costumes! Lots of superpowers! Scheming villains galore!

$9.99 including shipping anywhere in the US and Canada. $19.99 including shipping worldwide.

Get your copy today!

And please note: Issue #1 of Heroineburgh Comics is still available to order online at www.heroineburgh.com/comicbook-one/
and also in more than 90 stores across North America and the world, as listed below!

Jason Wright's cover for #2

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Benjamin Zeus Barnett interior page from the Savanna vs Panthyra story.

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Wayne Brown interior page from the flying robots story.

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Benjamin Zeus Barnett comic strip from the Cybrina / Red Gina team-up story.

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Wayne Brown comic strip sample from the Arogya / X-Machina team-up story.

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Back cover pinup of Poderosa by Marcel Walker.

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You can buy Heroineburgh Comics #1 at the following comic shops. Even more stores to come!

5280 Comics (Littleton, CO)
901 Comics (Memphis, TN)
AA Comics and Cards (Lebanon, PA)
A Comic Shop (Winter Park, FL)
Adam’s Action Figures & Comics (Edinburg, OH)
All-American Comics (Warren & Boardman, OH)
Amazing Heroes (Union. NJ)
Android’s Amazing Comics (Sayville, NY)
Anyone Comics (Brooklyn, NY)
Antiquarium (Jefferson City, MO)
ArkhamGift Shoppe (Allison Park)
Atomik Pop! (Oklahoma City, OK)
B & L Comics (Parma, OH)
Big Bang Comics (Sewickley , PA)
Bill & Walt’s Hobby Shop (Downtown Pittsburgh)
Black Cat Comics (Salt Lake City, UT)
Books Galore (Erie, PA)
Captain Bengal’s Comic Cove (Pocatello, ID)
Captain Blue Hen (Newark, DE)
Carpe Diem Comics (McKinney, TX)
Codex Comics & Collectibles (Ebensburg, PA)
Columbus Comics (Columbus, GA)
Comic Lair (Trenton, NJ)
Comic Town (Columbus, OH)
Comics Elite (Indianapolis, IN)
Comics Paradise Plus (Fairmont, WV)
Comics Paradise Plus 2 (Westover, WV)
Comic Store West (York, PA)
Comics and Friends (Mentor, OH)
Comics and Geeks (Montgomery, AL)
Comics World (Windber, PA)
Comikaza (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Copacetic Comics (Polish Hill - Pittsburgh)
Cosmic Comics (Belleville, IL)
Cutting Edge Comix (Red Lion, PA )
Docking Bay 93 (Mt. Vernon, WA )
Emerald City Comics (Clearwater, FL)
Fantastic Comics (Berkeley, CA)
Friendly Neighborhood Comics (Bellingham, MA)
Funny Business (Nyack, NY)
Geekadrome (Brookline - Pittsburgh)
Gotham Underground (Ramsey, NJ)
Ground Zero Comics (Strongsville, OH)
Gutter Pop Comics (Buffalo, NY)
Haven Comics Etc (Madison, AL)
Heroes for Sale (Auckland, NZ)
Heroes Ink (McKees Rocks / Robinson Township - Pittsburgh)
Illusive Comics (Santa Clara, CA)
Impossible Dreams (Bridgeville , PA)
Impulse Creations (Tulsa, OK )
Infinite Realities (Tucker, GA)
Inner Circle Comics (Idaho Falls, ID)
JAF Comics (Bethlehem/Easton, PA)
Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash (Red Bank, NJ)
Jesse James Comics (Glendale, AZ)
Jetpack Comics (Rochester, NH)
JHU Comic Books (Manhattan and Staten Island, NY )
Kaboom Comics (McAllen, TX)
Kapow Comics (Sherwood, AR)
Kingdom of Comics (Melbourne, FL)
Lemon Juice McGee’s Comic Cavalcade (Somerset, KY)
Level Up Entertainment (Mays Landing, NJ)
Little Shop of Heroes (Listowel, ON)
Main Street Games & Comics (London, KY)
Mile High Comics (Denver, CO)
Mustang Comics (Regent Square - Pittsburgh)
New Dimension Comics (Butler , PA)
New Dimension Comics (Cranberry , PA)
New Dimension Comics (Homestead Waterfront , PA)
New Dimension Comics (Pittsburgh Mills - Tarentum, PA)
Nico’s Comics (Baytown, TX)
Nirvana Comics (Knoxville, TN)
North Coast Nostalgia (Parma, OH)
Paper Asylum (Beverly, MA)
Phantom of the Attic (Greentree - Pittsburgh)
Phantom of the Attic (Monroeville , PA)
Phantom of the Attic (Oakland - Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh Comics (McMurray, PA)
Pulp 716 Coffee & Comics (Lockport/North Tonawanda, NY )
Rick’s Comic City (Nashville, TN)
Ron’s Comic World (Mt. Holly, NJ)
South Side Comics (Brentwood - Pittsburgh)
Space Cadets Collection (Oak Ridge North, TX)
SSalefish Comics (Winston-Salem & Greensboro, NC)
Stormwatch Comics (West Berlin, NJ)
Studio 9 Bandes Desinees (Montreal, QC)
The Collective (Altamonte Springs, FL)
The Comic Book Store (Glassboro, NJ)
The Comic Store (Lancaster, PA)
The Comics Vault (Altoona, PA)
The Geekery (Matawan, NJ)
Top End Gaming, Comics & Collectibles (Tuscumbia, AL)
Two Kings Comics (Victor, NY)
Variant Edition Comics (Edmonton, AB)
Vinyl Remains (Mt. Lebanon, PA )
White Dragon Comics (Tannersville, PA)
White Rabbit Comics (Attleboro, MA)
World’s Greatest Comics (Westerville, OH)

[shevek]

We accomplished a lot today with the distribution of Heroineburgh Comics #2 to a dozen shops in the Pittsburgh region.
They will all have the comic up on shelves within the next few days.

Here are our regional outlets: Copacetic Comics, Mustang Comics, New Dimension Waterfront, Phantom Monroeville,
Bill & Walt's, Phantom Oakland, Geekadrome, Heroes Ink, Phantom Greentree, Big Bang Comics, Pittsburgh Comics,
and South Side Comics.

Next step - get this book out all over the continent! We already shipped to a few stores in the US and Canada today, including
new additions Rhino's Comics in Rochester NY, Golden Memories in Long Island, and Kapow Comics in Little Rock AK..and within
two months we'll have them shipped to about 100 shops. (It takes a bit of time since we print them in batches of 100)

Mauricia (as Vendetta, the Italian spirit of vengeance) taped a promo today for our Youtube channel.



And Bridget (as Arctica, mistress of the frost) looks fetching in this photo she posted yesterday on Instagram. Arctica just can't control her passion for the other heroines in their tight spandex..we'll have to see where that gets her in Episode 19!

[shevek]

More new stores join the Heroineburgh family. We only lost a handful after Issue #1 but we gained about a dozen more, so we're well above 100 comic shops in North America now carrying the comic book. Here are our newest additions:

Alternate Reality (Las Vegas NV)
Bell's Comics (Grove City PA)
Comic Book Palace (Haverhill MA)
Comic Collection (Feasterville PA)
Comic Heaven (Willoughby OH)
Comics Adventure (Portland OR)
Fanfare (Kalamazoo MI)
Maverick's (Dayton OH)
Gateway Comics (Fredericksburg VA)
Paper Street Trading Company (Cincinnati OH)
Trouble's Little Sister (St Cloud FL)
Vault of Midnight (Ann Arbor MI)

If you know a comic book shop in your area (anywhere in the world!) and would like us to contact them regarding stocking the comic book, please let us know, and we'll be happy to pursue the lead. Thanks!

[batgirl1969]

Nice job getting this in Israel, The girls there need some kink to keep them in check, last time I was there trust me they need the stress breakers

[IMSancho]

More new stores join the Heroineburgh family. We only lost a handful after Issue #1 but we gained about a dozen more, so we're well above 100 comic shops in North America now carrying the comic book. Here are our newest additions:

Alternate Reality (Las Vegas NV)
Bell's Comics (Grove City PA)
Comic Book Palace (Haverhill MA)
Comic Collection (Feasterville PA)
Comic Heaven (Willoughby OH)
Comics Adventure (Portland OR)
Fanfare (Kalamazoo MI)
Maverick's (Dayton OH)
Gateway Comics (Fredericksburg VA)
Paper Street Trading Company (Cincinnati OH)
Trouble's Little Sister (St Cloud FL)
Vault of Midnight (Ann Arbor MI)

If you know a comic book shop in your area (anywhere in the world!) and would like us to contact them regarding stocking the comic book, please let us know, and we'll be happy to pursue the lead. Thanks!

Sweet, I just moved a few towns over from Haverhill.

[shevek]

Comic Book Palace (Haverhill MA)

Sweet, I just moved a few towns over from Haverhill.

Great, Sancho! Say hi to Glenn at Comic Book Place there, and tell him Heroineburgh sent you!

Nice job getting this in Israel, The girls there need some kink to keep them in check, last time I was there trust me they need the stress breakers

Yes indeed. Well, Comikaza on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv has our first issue. Haven't been able to send them our #2 issue yet because of covid lockdowns. But I'll be checking with the owner Ori next week to see if things have loosened up a bit.

Here are some more new stores carrying our issues as of the end of next week.

Alternate Universe (Milford, CT)
Bell's Comics (Grove City,PA)
Gateway Comics (Fredericksburg, VA)
Jersey's Comics (Hayes, Hampton and Yorktown, VA)
KaPow Comics and Coffee (Colorado Springs, CO)
Mazz's Comics (Bridgeport, PA)
The Portal Comics (Bethlehem, PA)
Trouble's Little Sister (St Cloud, FL)

[shevek]

Want to talk about comics? How about indie comics from Pittsburgh featuring spandex-clad superheroines?

Leaving no stone unturned....Heroineburgh and Marvin Wynn (creator of The Edge, a 90s-style superhero action series, now published
by Second Sight) are the two Pittsburgh comics creators on the morning show "Coffee and Comics", hosted by experienced comics creator and publisher Don Chin on his self-titled Youtube channel. We'll be talking comics this Wed Feb 24 at noon Eastern Standard Time (or 9 am Pacific).

Don Chin is the king of parody comics: he achieved major success in the 1980s with Adolescent Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters (a TMNT parody), and has been active ever since with his titles on Parody Press. He's currently running an Indiegogo campaign for 'X-Farce: Reloaded', an X-men parody with art by Bill Maus. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/x-farce-reloaded-1#/

Tune in and say hello in the chat!

[shevek]

Great comic-related news: in between doing colorist jobs for a rather famous crowdfunded comic, our cover artist Jason is working on the 4th "Anti-Heroineburgh" character sticker. These character stickers (of which there are seven so far - this would be the 8th overall) display both the heroine and villainess rosters of Heroineburgh, and are free inserts inside every comic book sold at stores around the country or at Cons.

The sticker will debut at Three Rivers Comicon (probably the only Comicon to be held in Western PA in the spring, since the others
have all been postponed to the fall due to Governor Wolf's current 25% capacity rule) on May 22-23. The Con will be held outside,
under large and sturdy tents, in the parking lot of the Homestead Waterfront near New Dimension Comics.

We also have another new round of stores to add which are carrying Heroineburgh Issues #1 and #2:
Linebreakers Comics (Victorville CA)
Famous Faces and Funnies (West Melbourne FL)
Galactic Comics (Florence SC)
MyComicShop.com (Arlington TX) formerly known as Lone Star Comics
BAMF Comics & Coffee (Maitland FL)
Doombrowski's Comics (Winter Haven FL)
Benders Cards and Comics (Hampton VA)
Empire's Comics Vault (Sacramento CA)

And now for Jason's newest character drawings....

Meet sexy super-criminal Fenneca the Silver Fox! Penelope "Penny" Fuchs is part of a "second-story team" with her husband, Dwight (aka Canis the Hound). She's got super-strength, steely sharp claws, and many tricky gadgets, as well as the smarts to pull off daring thefts in broad daylight. She debuted in Heroineburgh Episode 13 (played by Lara), and escaped being captured by Frija, even though her partner was taken into custody. Fenneca will be returning to live action in Episode 2 (portrayed by new actress Tara) and will make her comics debut in Issue #3 to come out later this year.

Also on our new sticker is the energy succubus from another dimension...the malevolent Morphia. She has no secret identity, because she is a scientist from another universe who was trapped in Pittsburgh due to a quantum cryophysics experiment conducted by Dr. Greta Bjornsdottir (Arctica) and Dr. Katrina Spector (formerly Spectrina, now Dark Spectra) in Episode 6.
Morphia (played by Sam Ivy) escaped the confinement that the heroines built to contain her, and she has been hiding out in the shadows of the Steel City ever since. Since she needs energy to survive, she has been consuming the life forces of vagrants and drawing electrical power from transformers...Issue #2 of Heroineburgh Comics confirms that she often retreats to the Allegheny Cemetery graveyard to avoid the Heroine League. Later this year, actress Krissy will take over the role of Morphia as she exacts
revenge from Arctica and the other heroines for having trapped her in this alien dimension. Because she is from a different universe with different physics, the color of her costume keeps changing!!

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[shevek]

Heroineburgh and our fellow Pittsburgh comics creator Marvin from The Edge (Issue #1 in stores now all over the US through Diamond)
both appeared this past week on SciFi4Me TV, a Youtube channel network run by the inimitable Jason Hunt. One of the most courteous, organized and professional Youtubers we've met!



Also...Ben Schwartz, the owner of Empire's Comics Vault in Sacramento, gave Heroineburgh a nice showcase in his new arrivals
of last week! Look for Heroineburgh #1 and #2 at 3:03 .



We added three new stores this week carrying both Heroineburgh issues. I think we'll be adding yet another one tomorrow in California, but I don't want to jinx it.

Superscript Comics (Lakewood, OH just outside Cleveland)
Spider's Web Comics (Yonkers, NY)
Olympic Comics (Lacey, WA just outside Olympia)

And finally, here are Jason Wright's completed comic book renderings of Dyna and Indarra! They'll go on our website soon, as well as
on the "Anti-Heroineburgh #4" stickers inserted in some of the comics.

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[shevek]

We are continuing to kill it with these super-fun live streams. We continue to blow the minds of the "crowdfunding clique" on Youtube as we prove that you don't have to give up on direct market distribution: I'm selling direct to stores while Marvin from The Edge is going through Diamond, and we're both doing just fine (although we'll see what happens to Diamond now that Marvel has jumped ship). Although by no means do I have any problem with crowdfunding - I've backed over a dozen fun and sexy campaigns on both IndieGoGo and Kickstarter (not the least of which is the Arachna cosplay cover!).

Here's our appearance on Joe Catapano's channel. He's got a great crowdfund comic on IGG called Star Circuit - if you're into 1980s retro neon, street-bike racing, and androids, plus a helping of Akira, Tron, Bladerunner and Speed Racer, it should float your boat.
The "Lady Satan" comic, with whom we shared the spotlight, is by a UK creator named Lucifer Storm and features a stripper taking
revenge on her sex traffickers. He uses the name of the Golden Age character Lady Satan, but not the backstory.



Also, Jason has finished the "Anti-Heroineburgh #4" sticker which will be going in some of the next round of comics to be shipped out to stores. Here it is below. And we added three more outlets:

Comics, Cards & Brew (Cape Coral, FL online retailer)
Comic Warriors (Keller, TX in Dallas-FortWorth)
North Coast Roleplaying (Eureka, CA)

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[shevek]

Heroineburgh and our friend Marvin Wynn (of The Edge) will be getting very Pittsburghese on a Steel City-themed episode of
Comic Book News hosted by the estimable Dan Shahin. That will be this Thursday at 3 pm Eastern Time. Post in the chat!



Also we continue to add more and more stores to the Heroineburgh shop lineup.
Here are seven more:

Arkham Comix (Rocky Mount, NC outside Raleigh)
Krazzy Comics (Gahanna, OH outside Columbus)
Comic Hero University (Fullerton, CA)
Holeymoleys (Northampton, MA)
Star Comics (Lubbock, TX)
The Hive Comics (Odessa, TX)
The Comics Closet (Shrewsbury, PA near York)

[shevek]

We had some great Youtube interviews this month promoting Heroineburgh Issue #2 and Episode 19.

I spoke with Rod The Rican (from Florida) and special guests Mauricia (aka Vendetta) and Marvin Wynn (aka Cor'Von) joined in.



Mauricia (Vendetta) and Josalynn (Vaporia) talked with Brian Sikes, from the Steel City's Start the Beat Podcast.



Youtuber Apex Comix (from Texas) did a nice review of Heroineburgh Comics for his channel.



And comics creator Keith Gleason (Mighty Mascots) interviewed me and our artists Benjamin Zeus Barnett and Wayne Brown
for his Youtube channel Indie Comics Relay.



We also added a ton more stores. You can find Heroineburgh Comics in lots of new places!

Dewey's Comic City (the Kubert School's comic shop in Dover NJ)
Dead Dale's Comics (Cortland OH)
The Box Entertainment (Leesville LA)
Million Year Picnic (Cambridge MA)
Comic Signal (Grand Rapids MI)
Cosmic Monkey (Portland OR)
Action City (Federal Way WA)
Augusta Book Exchange (Augusta GA)
Queen City Comics (Cincinnati OH)
Drawn To Comics (Glendale AZ)
Wild Time Comics (Attleboro MA)
Rubber Chicken (Bellingham MA)
Mayhem Comics (Ames IA)
Heroes Are Hard to Find (Charlotte NC)
End Zone Hobby Center (Clearfield UT)
Mellow Blue Planet (Rock Island IL)
Four Horsemen (Morgantown WV)
Guns N Knives N Comics (Longwood FL)
Asylum Comics (El Paso TX)
Trilogy Comics (Virginia Beach & Norfolk VA)
Torpedo Comics (Las Vegas NV & Orange CA)
Maude's Paperwing Gallery (Millvale PA)
Bill's Books & More (Canton OH)
Red Planet Comics (Albuquerque NM)
Main Street Comics (London KY)
Hypno-Tronic Comics (Staten Island NY)
Creamer & Cache Comics (Hunstville AL)
Dragon's Lair (Fayetteville NC)

and two more packages going out after this weekend to:

Keith's Comics (Dallas/ Garland / Denton TX)
The Cellar Tabletop Games & Comics (Bartlett TN)

So yes...that's what we've been doing for the past month. New goal is to reach 200 stores (we're at 170 now).