New Releases by Bill Morrison

"Originally published as Mars attacks the holidays and Mars attacks: classics obliterated."--Indicia.

**A DEAD P.I. SOLVES HIS OWN MURDER** It''s 1940, and a phony body on exhibit in a carnival sideshow suddenly springs to life and shambles away. Not so phony after all, he is John Doe, radio commentator and archenemy of Detroit''s notorious Purple Gang! But why did he disappear in 1930, and why did the mayor, the mob, and the cops all want him dead? * Perfect for fans of _The Goon_!

Hope your New Year''s resolution was to be terrified, because _Creepy_ is back to start 2012 with a scream! Featuring the latest bone-chilling stories from terror teams Joe and Keith Lansdale and Guus Floor, Bill Morrison and Wilfredo Torres, and Dan Braun and Patric Reynolds, this installment of the abominable anthology is sure to leave you shivering in the corner until next year! "_Creepy Comics_ . . . should appeal to any and all fans of horror tales, not just old-school revivalists." - _The Onion_''s A. V. Club

On Mount Desert Island, Maine, winter can mean six months of isolation and tough times, as year-round residents hunker down through the cold season. Larry Stettner and Bill Morrison vowed to change that. In November 2009, the Common Good Soup Kitchen opened its doors to the public, offering free soup as well as live music and a place for locals to gather, interact, and help each other. In its first winter of operation, the Common Good served over 10,000 bowls of soup to the community. Run entirely by donations, grants, and volunteer labor, the café also runs a distribution program to deliver soup to senior residences and others who cannot make it out to the café. In Cooking for the Common Good, Stettner and Morrison argue that we need to radically rethink the concept of the soup kitchen, emphasizing true community building along with incorporating healthy and locally sourced food. The book includes a lively third-person narrative telling the story of how the Common Good Soup Kitchen was created; the authors'' unique cooking philosophy; some of their most popular soup and salad recipes; and a full appendix with resources and a sample grant application for others interested in starting their own soup kitchen. "Today access to whole foods, local organic foods, and sustainable fisheries is more important than ever for our well-being. But, because of economic inequities, good whole food is once again hard to get. Organic foods are largely available to the wealthiest and most privileged among us. Let us break down the bastions and make natural, whole food—including organically based soups—for everyone." —from chapter 2, "The Soup Manifesto"

The satirical musings of Matt Groening''s Moe Szyslak will be at the tip of your tongue and a fingertip away with ''The Book of Moe'' - part of the wildly popular, critically-acclaimed series ''The Simpsons Library of Wisdom''.

When a former member of the Zoo Crew is murdered, the remaining members reunite to take on the dangerous Frogzilla and other super-powered villains.

"HI-diddly-ho, true believers! Ned Flanders, everyone''s favourite no-nonsense neighborino, is here to lend a helping hand, full of homespun and home-schooled hints. Follow the Nedster as he leads you through the thorny debate over church vs. state, comparing the Commandments to the Constitution; focus on the Flanders'' family tree; get a glimpse of Springfield through Ned''s Neighbourhood Watch, and learn the forbidden words (a.k.a. Neddy No-Nos) in the Flanders'' household. This gospel of goodness also includes a souvenir map to Praiseland, the shrine and amusement park dedicated to his late wife, Maude; Ned''s Comic Book of Virtues; and a sampling of the SharpeN''Edge, a catalogue of the left-handed luxuries available only at the Leftorium.

Luke Coyle had seen a mountain of violence in his young life. He had cared for the wounded and the dying and buried more men than he could remember. Yet he still held a secret doubt as to his own courage.

Drawing pictures of hard cases on Wanted notices was a tedious task for Nick Paget. But when he was asked to draw one that fitted his own description, he resolved to ride back into the storm of trouble he thought he had left behind...

Fry goes to a robot dentist, who discovers that the mercury filling in Fry''s tooth picks up and transmits some strange sort of radio signal. The signal is a message from some alien race, and the Professor tries to discern, via the "Jaws of Death" what the source is. Also Bender wants the tooth, because Mercury is a delicacy for robots, and tries to extract it.

When young Hal Coburn came back from the long and savage Civil War, he hoped for a return to his former peaceful life. Instead he found a deadly homecoming of hostility and subdued anger, and the dark cloud of a memory that still haunted the minds of all who looked at him. No help from the law only the gun can even the score.

When two young gaolbirds were at last released, they had but one thing in mind: to seek revenge against the man who had betrayed them. But vengence is fickle and can spread to where ever resentment is dry. And old wounds are reopened and guns balzed to settle old scores. Many are drawn into the final battle but few emerge unscathed.

When rancher Juan Valdes was found murdered, having been killed by a strange bullet, it lit a trail that burned like gunpowder to an explosion of such violence that the badlands were set aflame. From the shadows, treachery, deceit and cynically planned murder were dragged into the full glare of the desert sun and stretched across the path of the young deputy, Cal Rogers, and his girl. They struggled to find an answer to a mystery which the Law could not solve. Could they succeed?

In this first collection of comic strips based on Matt Groening''s Futurama series, Fry, a shiftless pizza delivery boy, awakens from an accidental cryogenic freezing in the year 3000 and the reader discovers the future of pizza delivery.

Matt Groening, animator of the award-winning television series featuring the dysfunctional Simpson family, describes his work. He explains about Homer Simpson''s doughnut-driven anatomy, the connection between Marge''s mile-high hair-do and bowling balls, and how to draw Bart Simpson.

Peace can be as hard to win as war and nobody knew that as well as Mackie, the military scout, who had struggled to bring peace to the frontier. All was thrown into jeopardy by the criminal ambitions of one man, who thought nothing of unleashing an Indian war, regardless of the consequences. It was up to Mackie to put his own life on the line.

After the Civil War ended young Jerry Bryce headed for the Bakula River where a gold rush was in progres s. Here he found that the bitter legacy of the war burned on and his thirst for justice and humanity was severely put to the test. ''

Essendon will be hoping for a change of fortune on the second day of its two-day match against Dandenong next Saturday. (photo)

Calder Cannons skipper Jude Bolton will start his AFL career with the Sydney Swans. (photo)