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	The Sunny South By Chris Muessig Art by Ron Chironna Jake was losing touch with his feet, so he began to tromp his boots hard against the frozen ground. Each impact brought out a word or two of prayer for deliverance from his misery. He kept his voice low so as not to wake the men in the tents or tip ambushers like the louse who had knocked off his hat with a snowball earlier in the evening. In spite of his supplication, the wind picked up, sent snow hissing along the ground, and then up into his face like a shovelful of sand. He turned his back to wait out the onslaught, thankful his mother had sent along earmuffs. The regiment’s move from Vermont to North Carolina in search of milder conditions had been a pipe dream, considering that the region was now enduring its coldest, wettest, snowiest winter since the Ice Age. . . Read more.

	O'Nelligan and the Lost Fates By Michael Nethercott Art by Tim Foley It was the endgame of 1956. On the world stage, Hungary was reeling from an attempted revolution, the Suez Canal Crisis had ground to a halt, Fidel Castro led a guerilla band into the Cuban mountains, and a young rock-and-roller named Elvis had his hips banned. In the midst of all this, Mr. O’Nelligan received a call from a woman named Diamond Lang, an old friend from his theater days, who had an unusual problem. It involved wealth and destiny and untimely death. While I was the one with private investigator embossed on his business card, I had no illusions as to where the talent lay in our partnership. Mr. O’Nelligan could deduce like the dickens (forgive me for that), whereas my own skills were pretty much limited to neat penmanship and a knack for organizing notes. I’d inherited the business from my rough-and-tumble father, whose death over a bowl of stew in the company of a crony named Muleface had thrust me into frontline sleuthdom. Luckily, Mr. O’Nelligan had traipsed into my life to lend his insight and Irish-born wit to the cause. Annoyingly, he wouldn’t accept a single dime for his troubles, no matter how integral he’d been to the success of a case... Read more.