Description
Exclusive Bundle: The Adventure Bundle, featuring the graphic novel Gun Street Girl, the graphic novel Hungry Ghosts, and Hungry Ghosts the prose novel with entirely different adventures and a different narrating main character
Format: paperbacks
Genre: spooky samurai / urban fantasy / action
Ideal for: fans of SHOGUN and SUPERNATURAL
Dive into these exciting stories with our exclusive bundle offer, featuring an unique mix of:
- A graphic novel with spooky samurai action!
- A graphic novel with a young woman coping with an urban fantasy world on the streets of London!
- A prose novel with a young warrior under a bloodthirsty curse and the friends working to help him overcome it!
Overview:
- The graphic novel Hungry Ghosts is the story of Isogai Heidazaemon Taketsura, a samurai who renounced his old life and became a wandering priest… but the dangers of his war-torn era meant that he couldn’t entirely leave his old skills behind him…
- The graphic novel Gun Street Girl is the story of Liz Pendragon (not her real last name– she picked a new one when she first ran away from home), who– after meeting her girlfriend Prana– teamed up with Eddie Caution, a hard-luck magician and supernatural investigator. The two of them investigate ghosts, rescue those kidnapped by monsters, try to stay out of trouble (often difficult), and generally enjoy life!
- The prose novel entitled Hungry Ghosts is about Takeshi Ito, a young warrior who’s under a curse that he thinks surely no one can help him with—until he finds out that his new monk friend used to be the legendary samurai Taketsura, wielder of the sword Lightning-on-the-Water…
Praise:
“HUNGRY GHOSTS has it all if you’re looking for action, adventure, and skillful sword fights. It’s also built over a nice, healthy skeleton of supernatural horror drawn from Japanese mythology (Buddhist and otherwise) . . . The artwork is gorgeous, reminiscent of 28 DAYS OF NIGHT and the moody, noir-ish images of Kurosawa, the writing is perfectly paced, and the mythology is so well-researched and finely crafted that it doesn’t get in the way of the marvelous story. I found delightful surprises on every page.”
–Jai Sen, author of THE MALAY MYSTERIES
“Our current rave [for digital graphic novels] has to be Gun Street Girl . . . Sassy, smart, and socially subversive…”
–Diane Anderson-Minshall, Curve Magazine
“In the prose novel HUNGRY GHOSTS . . . a group of unsuspecting individuals becomes entangled in a sinister curse. Drawn together by their shared pasts and nightmarish encounters, they must confront their deepest fears and battle the insatiable hunger of malevolent spirits. As the boundaries between the living and the dead blur, these desperate souls will be tested to their limits in a gripping fight for their very lives. Will they conquer the ghosts that haunt them, or will they succumb to the all-consuming darkness? Find out in this hauntingly addictive thrill ride. The authors (Barb Lien Cooper & Park Cooper) crafted a thematically-rich yet breezy read that entertains and inspires.”
–Michael Stinson, writer, BITEMARK
About the Authors
Barb is originally from Minnesota. She was a radio DJ for a while in college, and then she grew up to become a guitarist/singer-songwriter and got an album put out on the Imp label. However, she also had health issues: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and fibromyalgia and extreme environmental sensitivities and allergies. (She also has Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder due to issues involving her family of origin.)
For a while, brain fog from the CFS and the fibro made it harder for her to read long and involved works of fiction… So (since she’d always loved them in her childhood) she got into reading comics and graphic novels, particularly the comparatively avant-garde work coming out at that time from DC Comics.
Then someone in the letter columns of a certain comic book announced that they were doing a fanzine for readers of that comic. Barb and Park both wrote in… Park liked the writing Barb submitted to the fanzine, and he wrote to Barb, and they began writing to each other. Then they started talking on the phone… they fell in love… they started visiting one another… and then they got married! (To each other!)
Barb co-founded and wrote for the award-winning website Sequential Tart, made by women about comics and other popular culture things. Then Barb started writing her comic Gun Street Girl… A little after that, they started adapting and editing manga for major American publishers importing manga (and sometimes their South Korean and Chinese counterparts) from the far side of the Pacific. Near the end of this, Barb and Park wrote the manga pitch The Hidden for TokyoPop, perfectly timed to appear the week that that company fell apart. Then Barb and Park wrote the sci-fi vampire graphic novel Half Dead, Park successfully completed his Ph.D. in literature, and eventually Park started writing his cyberpunk comic Swipe for Angry Viking Press.
These days, Barb and Park have written many more things, and they live happily together in Austin, Texas.
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