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EIGHT WAY BANDITS

Copies of Eight Way Bandits #1 can be ordered by mail.

The cost is $4.00 for the U.S. and Canada.  The cost is $6.00 to Great Britain and Western Europe, and $7.00 to Japan and Australia.  We accept personal checks and money orders for U.S. buyers - made out to Leroy Douresseaux.  Orders outside the U.S. must use PAYPAL or make other arrangements.

To pay by mail, use the following address:

Eight Way Bandits

PO Box 231

Lawtell, LA 70550

There is a short preview of #1 at the website Comic Book Bin here.

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The World of Eight Way Bandits

by Vincent Van Hustle

The future is tomorrow… 7 years from now… or just another day around the corner.

The cutting edge in science, the first waves of every new technology, the lead in avant-garde computer software, the blinding edge of new medicines and cures – all of it developed and owned by super corporations.  Patent law and intellectual property law has given them sole ownership of their creations.  That also includes humans whose genetic structure was created by corporate research.  These "new humans" or "Eightmen" are slaves to the holder of the patents on their unique genes.

One of these eightmen is a man named Bounyoy Pfau, who prefers to be called "Boy."  Boy is a slave to MegaGen, who holds that patent on his genetic makeup.  Physically, Boy is 10 times faster, stronger, and more intelligent than even the most physically gifted normal humans.  With some limitations, he can also slowly alter his physical appearance by skin color, weight, height, etc.

MegaGen hired Boy out to The Gramercy Agency.  Gramercy is a Q company – essentially a private police agency that specializes in hunting and finding humans.  Boy is the best QMan ("Q" as in quarry) – a kind of bounty hunter.

The opposite of the law-abiding Q-company is the criminal "bandit house."  Bandit houses are well-financed criminal organizations that employ the best-trained thieves, soldiers-of-fortune, mercenaries, assassins, espionage agents, and liars.  They are totally amoral, and through theft and murder are the best providers of the classified information and new science, technology, and weapons on the black markets in the world.

Eight Way Bandits the comic books finds Boy becoming something of a double agent, who infiltrates a bandit house to capture the leader, Auguste Carlos Winter, but Boy falls in love with Winter's daughter, Anisha, a killer with multiple personalities.  Deception becomes Boy's life, doing whatever it takes to attain the most dangerous prize he's ever had his eye on, a woman whose love will cost him his freedom and turn him into bandit.  Anisha's most murderous personality, the Rose Assassin, puts everything on the line, all her training, and fealty to her family for the love of a man – a love she cannot understand.  He finds himself at odds with his profession, and she finds herself assisting him on the odd occasion.  They won't die a romantic death like two star-crossed lovers.  They may just make sure everyone else dies instead of them.

8 Way Bandits mixes Romeo and Juliet, Blade Runner, Akira, and Frank Miller's Daredevil in a gumbo of bullets, blades, and two-faced suckers.

UPDATE (12-06-2006):  We've received our fifth review from movie rumor and fan site, Ain't it Cool News.  You can go here to read the short review by AICN regular Dan Grendell, just below the middle of the page.

UPDATE (11-04-2006): We've received a review from popular website, Silver Bullet Comic Books.  You can go here to read the review by Steve Saville.

This is the first installment in what promises to be an interesting and complex title.

UPDATE (10-22-2006):  We've received our third review and first good one.  Blogger Josh Hechinger of the blog Desperate Irrational Exuberance gives us the OK sign here.

It has potential, is the main thing, and you wouldn't go wrong checking it out. - writes Josh.

UPDATE (10-17-2006):  We received our second review.  This one is from Greg Burgas of Comic Book Resources at their blog "Comics Should Be Good.  This review is also negative, but more thoughtful and detailed about the reviewer's problems with #1.  Read it here.  His closing paragraph:  So I can't really recommend Eight Way Bandits. I wish the guys luck, though, because it's nice to see anyone making comics, even if I don't like it . - G. Burgas..

UPDATE (09-29-2006):  We got our first review from comic writer and critic Kevin Church (Cthulu Tales: The Rising and the web comic strip Nitroglycerine on WebComicsNation) of BeaucoupKevin.com here.  He takes us and our little comic to the woodshed - "It's been a long time since I've read a comic that's as thoroughly inept as Eight Way Bandits #1 ."  And it gets harsher...