We begin the latest chapter of our story most fowl - four new pages of PELICAN BASTARDS from Michael Aushenker, coming your way!

Today we welcome comics critic Helen Chazan to the SOLRAD fold with an essay on Rumiko Takahashi's "Mermaid's Scar" published in Mermaid Saga #2 from Viz Media.

Tom Lake returns with the latest NEAR DEATH FLYING TURTLE - in which our floating reptilian friend obscures himself, a dancing flame.