Random Happenstance

I didn't think I backed that much stuff on Kickstarter--although, I have to put in the annual Rifftrax pledge for some shorts or something--but then I checked, and um, there were like three more books than I'd thought still coming! Blighter, Alter Ego, and Shelly Bond's Fast Times in Comic Book Editing; the latter of which might be shipping soonish. But, I had recently received the latest Impossible Jones book from Karl Kesel and David Hahn! Cover by Bill Sienkiewicz!

Kesel has had fun runs on Superboy and Fantastic Four (he should've been given that title for a longer run!) but puts it all into his own characters here: the titular Jones is a former crook caught in a traditionally origin-type accident that gives her weird powers and the opportunity to escape her old life. She's not entirely straight-and-narrow, and it's pretty obviously going to bite her in the ass someday, especially when she tries to have things both ways, like with her Christmas-themed crook buddy Holly Daze. When good guy Polecat shows up to bust Holly, can Jones get her friend out of trouble, while still keeping her newfound rep? And that's only the start of her troubles...

They're putting a lot into the packages here, not only with prints, stickers, and an Impossible Jones pin; but also two back-up stories with two-tone vigilante Even Steven by Gail Simone and David Hawhn and Alex Segura and Dan Schkade! The only thing that's not good about this is that they should be on like #28 of a couple hundred issue run by now, since Kesel plots the book like he's in for the long haul. Me too! This issue hasn't yet, but some Impossible Jones has been available in stores, so grab it if you see it. And the new Kickstarter campaign just started, too!