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Brenda Amy Edmonton is a disgraced reporter who finds her world turned upside down when she investigates a wave of disappearances with ties to the occult. Before she knows it, Brenda (B.A.E.) ends up in the middle of an ancient war that might destroy the human race.

A ghostly killer haunts Chinatown, murdering innocent children. Brenda Amy Edmonton, suspecting a connection between this killer and the Exiled Gods she vowed to stop from invading Earth, is on the case. She must use all the skills she learned as a journalist to find out why this killer is targeting children and stop him. But the local cops, especially Detective Amy Hahn, bristle at Edmonton''s interference, even suspecting that she is the real killer. Facing opposition from all angles, even her own self-doubt, Edmonton must solve the case before it''s too late.

Discover the reason comic creators toil away over ink stained pages, even when circumstances don't reward that hard work. This is what happens when comics meet the real world, coming face to face with politics, war, and big business. Witness creators navigate their passion and careers when faced with the intersection between art and commerce. This stellar collection includes these essays: 1) The Cost of Comics: A History of the Comic Book Labor Movement2) Marge Buell and Little Lulu: Women Warriors - America's Early Female Cartoonist Entrepreneur and Her Feminist Creation3) Hector Oesterheld: Comics Own Martyr4) David Mazzucchelli Walks Away from Superheroic Success for Indie Art5) Jeff Smith and Bone: A Little Help from My Friends6) A License to Cartoon: Art and Capitalism in the Works of Schulz, Davis, and Watterson7) Epilogue or Why I Write: A Justification of Rejection, Torture, and Bliss