"Ah, hell." - Mickey Malloy, plenty of times.

You ever just go to schedule your hardboiled pulp dieselpunk serial and hit ‘post now’ instead? Everyone just received an out-of-order piece of a future Billy Club Bastard story. Skip it, delete, whatever, just don’t spoil that story because rest assured, Mick and his favorite real-life mad scientist pal will return, but at the right time, in the right order. Keep an eye out for The Case of the Old Wizard’s Woods in March. In the meantime, here’s a preview of an upcoming Vigilance story from Love and War, our steamy romance spin-off:

This amazing cover is by Joe Strela. The second entry in Love and War features a biochemist on the lam and a masked vigilante fighting their way through bounty-hunters, pissed-off mafiosos, mutated alligators, and their own insecurities on and under the mean streets of New York City. The Pacifist and the Professor debuts later this year, first and free on Substack.

Sorry for the confusion, but it’s 2025: we gotta roll with the punches now.