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Fall of the Ultras

by Carlton L. Scott
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WHAT'S NEW AT HEROIC!

12 February 2010 10:13pm - THE ELECTRONIC EDITION OF FLARE ANNUAL #3 IS HERE! The print version won't be out until May, but you can get the electronic version of this year's Flare Annual right here.

6 February 2010 12:50pm - MURCIELAGA #8 HAS GONE TO PRESS! The first new issue in several years of Dærick Gröss's Murciélaga She-Bat is now at the printer! This issue features the classic adventure, "A Night in the Life," plus for the first time in color Chapter One of "Rings for a Demon"! Act fast, and you can still get the discounted advance order price here.

5 February 2010 2:13pm - HEROIC SPOTLIGHT #0 FOUND! Okay! We also just found a few copies of the rare zeroth issue of HEROIC SPOTLIGHT! Back in 1993, we tried to put together a group of independent comic book publishers, and teamed up with Blue Comet Press and Conquest Press to produce a promotional comic. This issue does feature a Flare story, plus stories featuring characters from the other two publishers. While they last, you can get copies of this issue here, on our back issue order page!

14 January 2010 12:28pm - MR. FIXITT FOUND! For a few years, we'd been thinking we were completely out of stock. But we just came across a few remaining copies of Craig Boldman and Howard Bender's Mr. Fixitt #1. So for Heroic Publishing completists, we've put them up for sale here, on our back issue order page!

10 January 2010 9:57am - FLARE INTERVIEWS SEAN! Flare spent some quality time this weekend with her newest artist, Sean Harrington! Check out her interview with Sean, and see some of the artwork her visit inspired!

11 December 14:21pm - FLARE GOES SPYING WITH LANA! The crossover you weren't expecting is coming your way starting in January! Sean Harrington is not only Flare's regular artist for her Sunday newspaper strips, he also has his own webcomic, Spying With Lana! And sometime around the middle of next month, both here and on the Lana website, we're going to start serializing a Flare/Lana team-up, with two collected print editions (with alternate Lana and Flare covers) coming your way this summer. In the meantime, find out what Lana's all about by checking out her website at http://www.harrington-artwerkes.com/Lana.htm.

10 December 11:26pm - HEY! WILL'S BLOGGIN'! Check out Giant's brand-new blog at http://beejaygiant.wordpress.com! He'll not only be talking about the trials and tribulations of being a teenaged superhero who's been grounded by his mom, he'll be telling you things that weren't in the comics! Including (pretty soon) the scoop on the sensational G-GIRL, the voomy twin sister he never even knew he had! And while you're at it, check out Will's new home page at www.heroicpub.com/giant!

9 December 10:25pm - HOLIDAY SALE AT DRIVETHRU COMICS! From now through the end of the year, DRIVETHRU COMICS is offering a 10% discount on downloads of the electronic editions of all your favorite Heroic Publishing titles! This is a great, inexpensive way to own your own copies of issues you may have missed. Check it out at comics.drivethrustuff.com!

1 December 12:12pm - FLARE IS BLOGGING AND TWEETING! Check out Terri's new wordpress blog at terriflare.wordpress.com for the latest scoop on what's up with comics' glittering goddess of the light. And tweet with her on Twitter at twitter.com/terriferan.

26 November 12:13pm - ICICLE HAS A NEW HOME PAGE! She's still a thief, and still a liar. But now she's all growed up, and definitely ready for some Hollywood action! Check out what's coming your way in 2011 from Icestar's sexy little kid sister, ICICLE. Register as a member of the Heroic Publishing website, and get a bonus peek at an unpublished ICICLE adventure!

12 November 12:51pm - THE SOUTHERN KNIGHTS ARE COMING! The classic six-part crossover between the League of Champions and the Southern Knights is coming your way in 2010. And this time it's in color! Watch for it in CHAMPIONS #47-50 and FLARE ADVENTURES #26-27.

1 November 9:15am - THE WARRIOR RETURNS! Breaking news! Heroic Publishing and Daerick Gross's Studio G have just reached an agreement for a new series of comic books featuring the classic adventures of America's foremost Latin heroine, MURCIELAGA SHE-BAT! It's planned as an eight-part series that begins in February 2010. Check out the first new issue here.

20 October 9:21am - New issues are hot off the presses! Get your copies of League of Champions #13, Flare #38, and the color edition of Adventures of Chrissie Claus #2 today!

26 September 12:43pm - Flare Adventures #23 is here! This one you'll definitely want to order, because there's an all-new adventure in it that takes place when Flare was a girl growing up in the Amazon.

20 September 8:47pm - There's a new color edition of Adventures of Chrissie Claus #2 coming your way in November! Place your order today, and get a special discount off the cover price!

6 September 7:42pm - THE SENSATIONAL G-GIRL has a brand-new home page! Check it out at www.heroicpub.com/ggirl. And while you're there, think about ordering your very own copy of Mark Beachum's Limited Edition [100 copies] 11" x 17" G-GIRL VS OGRE print!

5 September 4:13pm - LIBERTY GIRL fans rejoice! A special five-page preview of her long-awaited fourth issue, by Richard Martin and Mark Sparacio will appear in February in the pages of Flare #39. Check it out here!

5 September 4:01pm - G-GIRL pages from Adam Walters are now visible here!

5 September 2:21pm - Here's FRANCO URRU's cover for the first issue of Heroic Spotlight! Included in this issue is a 24-page DARK MALICE adventure by F. P. Barbieri and Franco Urru, plus the classic six-page introduction of INDIGO, by Dennis Mallonee, Rick Hoberg, and Tim Burgard! Check out a few preview pages here.

24 August 3:28pm - AT LAST! The mystery of LADY ARCANE will begin to unfold in the pages of WITCHGIRLS INC #9, in a story more than sixteen years in the making! It's been that many years since our mistress of magic went missing. Now, in a crossover event that will play out during the summer of 2010 in the pages of both WITCHGIRLS INC and FLARE, with story by Dennis Mallonee and artwork by Duval Stowers, we're finally about to learn where she's been and what she's been doing all that time. (A word to the wise: If you want to get up to speed in anticipation of what begins in WitchGirls Inc #9, you'll definitely want to get hold of copies of Flare #37, and WitchGirls Inc. #4-8.)

20 August 10:45am - WOW! Sean Harrington just turned in PAGE ONE of his story for next year's FLARE ANNUAL. You'll definitely want to check this out. It's a 3-D rendering of Flare and her police officer boyfriend LUCAS MADISON getting ready to do some down-and-dirty police work.

4 August 9:00pm - THE NEXT FLARE NEWSPAPER STRIP!

2 August 1:12am - FULL-ISSUE PREVIEWS! For registered members only! Check it out. We've expanded our full-issue previews for registered members to fully ten different upcoming titles. And this is only the first of many different special features we're planning to give you on the Heroic Publishing website.

30 July 9:56pm - CHAMPIONS PREVIEWS! For registered members only! We've just posted previews of Champions #43, Champions #44, and Champions #45! Registration is free! If you haven't done it yet, do it here!

28 July 10:01am - FLARE VS THE BLACK ENCHANTRESS! You've been waiting for this one! And now you're about to get it! Come November, in the Flare Sunday newspaper strip, it's the long-awaited showdown between Flare and the Black Enchantress, by Dennis Mallonee and Sean Harrington! Check out the November 22 preview here.

27 July 10:48pm - FLARE IN OLYMPUS STORYLINE CONCLUDES! Copies of FLARE ADVENTURES #22 have also just arrived. This is the wrap-up to Flare's very first confrontation with the night-goddess NYX (aka Lady Darkon in her mortal guise), presented here for the first time in color. This issue also includes the eight-page adventure, "Fala," which sets the stage for a new series of stories that take place when our glittering goddess of light was a teenager growing up the rain forests of the Amazon.

25 July 1:34pm - THE REGULAR FLARE TITLE RETURNS! The 37th issue of FLARE is here at last, featuring an all-new adventure, "The Secrets of Lady Arcane," by Dennis Mallonee, Dick Giordano, and Mark Beachum, with a special guest appearance by Doctor Arcane! Also in this first new issue, an untold tale of Dark Malice and the original Giant!

24 July 2:36pm - CHECK OUT PAYVERB! When we're not doing comic book stuff, Heroic Publishing does website programming. And our latest project is about to go live. Payverb is meant to be an alternative to PayPal, less expensive, and with an incentive affiliate program that just might let you make some money on the side!

20 July 11:24pm - THE LATEST FLARE NEWSPAPER STRIP IS HERE! It's by Sean Harrington, and it's scheduled for a November 15 release. Check out the sneak preview at www.heroicpub.com/flare/strips.php.

12 July 4:25pm - FOR REGISTERED MEMBERS ONLY! We've just put up full book-length previews of Flare #38 and Flare Adventures #23. Go to the Flare home page, log in with your username and password, and take an advance look at what's coming yor way in October and November of this year.

12 July 12:17pm - CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW OF NEXT YEAR'S FLARE ANNUAL! It's going to feature a new Flare story by MARK PROPST, a set of 21 different Flare newspaper strips, and a complete seven-page adventure in regular comic book format by her regular newspaper strip artist, SEAN HARRINGTON!

11 July 10:56am - AN ALL-NEW ICICLE ADVENTURE! FOR REGISTERED MEMBERS ONLY! Check out our latest feature! If you've registered on the Heroic Publishing website, you can now get an exclusive look at the all-new unpublished ICICLE adventure, "A Visit from Mother!"

10 July 11:23am - OUR NEW REGISTRATION PAGE is up and functional. If you haven't already registered as a member of the Heroic Publishing website, you'll want to do it now, because we're getting ready to start putting up new members-only features, including previews of upcoming projects, along with as-yet-unpublished adventures of your favorite characters!

10 July 9:40am - NEW FLARE NEWSPAPER STRIP Check out a sneak preview of Sean Harrington's November 8 FLARE comic strip here. It features a guest appearance by none other than the naughty BLACK ENCHANTRESS!

9 July 8:44am - Several new covers for upcoming issues are now on view on the previews page at www.heroicpub.com/previews/default.php.

27 June 12:17am - CHAMPIONS #42 and LIBERTY COMICS #2 are here! Subscription copies have been mailed out. If you haven't yet ordered your copies, you can get them from our back issue page. This issue of CHAMPIONS features the thrilling conclusion to the origin of RAVEN GOLD. And in LIBERTY COMICS, the savage TIGRESS takes on Flare's mother, the legendary GOLDEN WARRIOR!

24 June 8:29pm - THE FLARE COMIC STRIP. Check it out! Sean Harrington just sent us his latest Flare newspaper strip!

24 June 4:22pm - CHAMPIONS #42 and LIBERTY COMICS #2 have just been shipped! We'll have copies within the week. If you haven't ordered them yet, order today!

14 June 5:41pm - LIMITED EDITION HAND PAINTED FULL-COLOR ORIGINAL ART PRINTS BY BEACHUM AND STOWERS!
MARK BEACHUM and DUVAL STOWERS have just put together three new original art prints featuring FLARE and the sensational G-GIRL! And Duval is going to hand-paint limited editions of only 100 copies of each! Check out our new ORIGINAL ART page and order your copy today!

4 June 9:39pm - FLARE ADVENTURES #21 NOW AVAILABLE!
Want to see more LADY ARCANE? Not only do she and the BLACK ENCHANTRESS make a guest appearance in the classic Flare-in-Olympus adventure (presented for the first time in color) in FLARE ADVENTURES #21, there's also a bonus LADY A/ENCHANTRESS back-up feature! All this, plus a beautiful FRANK BRUNNER cover.

2 June 9:48am - GOLDEN WARRIOR VS THE SAVAGE TIGRESS!
This is one you won't want miss. For years, fans have been asking to see Flare's celebrated mother, the GOLDEN WARRIOR, in all-out action. And now, at last, here's your chance! In the second issue of LIBERTY COMICS, Dennis Mallonee and Mark Beachum bring you a blast from the not-so-distant past as the legendary Katrina Feran has a 1947 throw-down with the savage, original TIGRESS. Also in this issue, enjoy the first chapter in the legend of the original GIANT, plus a bonus LIBERTY GIRL featurette. Get a special discount, and place an advance order for your copy today!

29 May 2009 12:57am - THE WITCHGIRLS ARE BACK!
Check out the latest issue of WITCHGIRLS INC! Issue #6 is now on sale, featuring an all-new adventure of the BLACK ENCHANTRESS and DOCTOR ARCANE, by Terrance Griep and J. Adam Walters, plus a classic tale of LADY ARCANE, by Dennis Mallonee and Duval Stowers, presented for the first time in color!

13 May 2009 2:16pm - NEW ISSUES OF FLARE BEGIN IN AUGUST!
New adventures of comics' glittering goddess of the light begin in August in the pages of FLARE #37, with an all-new tale, by Dennis Mallonee, Dick Giordano, Mark Beachum, and Daniel Lauer! In this issue, secrets are revealed, and the stage is set for events that will lead at last to the long-awaited return of Flare's best friend, Donnah Hannah, aka LADY ARCANE.

4 May 2009 2:14pm - THE FLARE ANNUAL IS HERE!
Is your local paper not carrying the weekly Flare comic strip? Find out what you've been missing by ordering this year's FLARE ANNUAL, featuring 44 Flare comic strips by Mallonee, Burgard, Beachum, Purcell, and Propst. Copies just arrived! And though we can (and will) get more, this batch is already almost gone! Oh! And on top of that, we also just got copies of CHAMPIONS #41 and the long-awaited ANTHEM #5!.

29 April 2009 10:31am - FLARE NEWSPAPER STRIP PREVIEW
Want to see what's going on with the FLARE newspaper strip? Check out our preview of SEAN HARRINGTON's first four FLARE strips here.

26 April 2009 8:33am - DUVAL STOWERS ON BOARD FOR G-GIRL
Here's some G-Girl news! Lady Arcane's DUVAL STOWERS has come on board! He'll be working with MARK BEACHUM, providing the finishes and coloring for Mark's magnificent artwork. You can learn more about the sensational G-Girl here.

25 April 2009 12:36pm - PLAYTESTING THE FLARE RPG CARD GAME
Right now, even as I post this, we're getting started on the first playtest of the Flare RPG card game. Game designer Jim Gettman will be here any minute. And we have a few eager gamers on hand to try it out. If you live in the Long Beach CA area and are interested in helping with the next playtest, drop an email to heroicpub@aol.com, with the subject line "FLARE RPG Playtest".

24 April 2009 4:15pm - THE FLARE RADIO SHOW
Okay! Wow! We just finished taping the very first Flare Radio Show! It's a 15-minute broadcast that will be airing on the Kaleidascope Radio Network, featuring an honest-to-goodness adventure of Flare, plus an interview with Faye Mata, the voice actress who portrays our glittering goddess of the light. We're also getting a podcast together; as soon as that's ready, we'll get you the details on how to download it.

22 April 2009 9:35pm - FLARE ADVENTURES #21 AND WITCHGIRLS INC #6 ARE NOW AT THE PRINTER
Check out Flare Adventures #21 and Witchgirls Inc #6. We've just uploaded the files to Ka-Blam. They'll be going to press sometime in May, and will be out on schedule in June.

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