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The locals started to call their town “Palookaville.” The name stuck, changing from a mark of shame to a badge of pride as more Mob soldiers and the freelance muscle that served the growing ranks of super-villains settled in the town and the town grew to accommodate their needs. They left the struggles of their workaday world in the City for the most part, blowing off steam on the Boardwalk or mixing it up in the roving barfight by the docks and then going home to their families.  They felt secure in Palookaville, knowing that they were as close to invisible and untouchable as anyone could be in a world where the gods walked and titans battled in the skies.  Untouchable and invisible until Gaia of the Five Freedoms was found dead in Buonatesta Park. “PALOOKAVILLE is a wonderfully weird, occasionally violent, often funny, deeply twisted revisionist look at the super hero genre.” –Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Punisher: Naked Kills and Black Panther: Power Palookaville is now available in ebook format on Lulu.com. Watch this space for more distribution news. 

In addition to our electronic offering, Palookaville will be available in print through Lulu.com. Whether in paper or pixels, it’s a rare gem:  Palookaville is a blue-collar supervillain antholology set in the shadows of the superheroic world. Second-string criminals, masked mooks and clued-in henchmen leave the stresses of the criminal world behind and live “normal lives” in the sleepy bedroom town of Powell Heights until the outside world muscles its way in.  Fortunately, the citizens of Palookaville know all about muscle work. Powell Heights has always kept its distance from the City. The town, half an hour away from the Federal Penitentiary and the State Hospital and twenty minutes by train from the City, has made a handy living from crime since Vincenzo “Pretty Vinnie” Buonatesta muscled his way into defacto ownership of the prison during his incarceration and rebuilt the town as a place where his crew and hangers-on could regroup and live out from under the eye of the law. The locals started to call their town “Palookaville.” The name stuck, changing from a mark of shame to a badge of pride as more Mob soldiers and the freelance muscle that served the growing ranks of super-villains settled in the town and the town grew to accommodate their needs. They felt secure in Palookaville, knowing that they were as close to invisible and untouchable as anyone could be in a world where the gods walked and titans battled in the skies.  Untouchable and invisible until Gaia of the Five Freedoms was found dead in Buonatesta Park. “PALOOKAVILLE is a wonderfully weird, occasionally violent, often funny, deeply twisted revisionist look at the super hero genre.” –Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Punisher: Naked Kills and Black Panther: Power

Second anthology is GO. 

“Fast Eddie’s Secret” was acquired during Palookaville’s open solicitation period. Stories will continue to be reviewed until midnight August 15.