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A Dummy’s Guide to Danger: Lost at Sea, Issue 1, written by Jason M. Burns, illustrated by Joe Eisma, lettered by Gary Scott Beatty ($3.25, 32 pages). This is the first issue of the second Dummy’s Guide to Danger series, published by Viper Comics. In this issue, “After surviving the maniacal onslaught of The Flesh Collector in the first critically acclaimed series, private investigator Alan Sirois and his paraplegic ventriloquist dummy partner, Mr. Bloomberg, return in this action filled and humor laced sequel that finds the mismatched duo aboard a mystery cruise where a real mystery has started to unfold.”

Kaleidotrope is a twice-yearly small press zine. The 48-page issue #4 (April 2008) contains fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The magazine is available for $4 per copy; two-year, four-issue subscription for $16 (US/Canada), $25 (elsewhere) from Fred Coppersmith, PO Box 25, Carle Place, NY 11514; www.unreality.net/kaleidotrope. Fiction authors in this issue: Andrew Howard, Ashley Arnold, Bill Ward, Mark Rich, Adam Lowe, Mike Driver, Brendan Connell, Kurt Kirchmeier, G.W. Thomas, Flavian Mark Lupinetti, Paul Abbamondi, Alex Dally MacFarlane, and Michael Obilade. Poetry by: Bonite Kale, Thomas Zimmerman, Beth Langford, Alyce Wilson, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Miranda Gaw, Dana Koster, Franz K. Baskett, Jason Huskey, and Aurelio Rico Lopez III. Nonfiction: an interview with Marc Schuster & Tim Powers, by Betty Ragan; “The rise of the Fembots: A Brief Introduction to Female Android Sexuality in Film” by Eric Borer; and Horoscopes. Art by Remi Treuer, Rod Walker, Lisa Willis, and Fred Coppersmith. Cover art is by Remi Treuer.