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It is a truth universally acknowledged that when your particular brand of mad science involves cloning 100 girls with different superpowers and conditioning them to be weapons, you more or less deserve what happens when they wake up, find out, and get really, really angry.

The teenagers-constructed-to-be-weapons idea isn’t itself original, but 100 Girls has some interesting twists, which I don’t intend to spoil overmuch. In this first installment of what I hope will expand on the promise it shows, Sylvia Mark discovers her amazing acrobatic powers during a fight with a bully. Running away from her adopted parents, she’s accosted by some men in black, and takes them down with breathtaking ease.

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Velvet Rope, the horror anthology from Arcana Studios, is in this month’s Previews and Mark E. Poulton stopped by to show off a preview of the book.

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Playboy.com recently featured Arcana’s Eve: Vampire Diva in their Girls of Comic-Con Gallery. Portraying Eve is model Ruby Rocket who appeared at the Arcana Comics booth, July 26th, at the San Diego Comic Con:

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“Greatest American Hero” Franchise Reborn at Comic-Con 2008

Join the original cast of the “Greatest American Hero” television series on Thursday, July 24 at 12:30-1:30pm in Room 7AB at the 2008 Comic-Con Convention in San Diego. After twenty-five years, this beloved cult series is being re-introduced to the world as a comic book series. In addition, two special announcements will be made regarding the resurrection of the “Greatest American Hero” franchise.

A videotaped introduction from the show’s legendary creator STEPHEN J. CANNELL, who has remarked that “The Greatest American Hero” is his best-selling series of all time, kicks off the panel.

Panelists include the original stars:

**WILLIAM KATT
**CONNIE SELLECCA
**ROBERT CULP
**DENNIS “DANGER” MADALONE -Stuntman

The Panel will be hosted by Pulp Secret stars Justin Tyler, Pete LePage and Alex Zalben from the comic book show “The Stack.”

Also in attendance will be Christopher Folino, director of the motion picture “Gamers”; Derek McCaw, editor of Fanboy Planet; and Arcana Studios’ Sean O’Reilly (“The Clockwork Girl”) and artist Clint Hilinski (The Justice League) All four are collaborating with William Katt to create the new comic book series.

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Helen Killer is the book that has made me take a look at more of the material coming out from Arcana and a new project that will be with another company being announced in San Diego will continue to keep my focus on this company.

My idea is that the Tuesday post is so overwhelming in its size and the number of books that many comics can get lost in the shuffle, so I want to occasionally do what I’m calling a spotlight review, which will either be a preview of a book soon to hit the stands or one that just hit the stands.

For Penance: Trial of the Century the premise is that a super-hero is involved in a hostage situation and the girl taken hostage dies as does the bad guy who is killed by the super-hero.

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Luke314pi is one of the most well-known and prolific of all the customizers who work in the Minimate medium. To date he has created over 100 Minimate customs, the most recent of which are characters from Arcana Studio’s book entitled Tales of Penance!

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Itty-bitty blondie Sylvia Mark doesn’t look like much. But piss her off, and she’s liable to go all Hulk on you. Except, not green—just really, really strong. Meangrrl Colleen finds that out when she tries to warn Sylvia off her fine boyfriend, and ends up in a Colleen-shaped locker dent with a broken arm for her trouble. While Sylvia at first chalks up her overnight might to puberty-gone-wild, her disturbing dreams of bio-vats and rivers of blood hint at a dangerously different reason. Meanwhile, in a secret government lab, Dr. Tabitha Carver looks over her collection of super-girls in jars, awaiting the return of the missing four so she can activate her army of baby goddesses. Four girls were kidnapped from the lab at the start of Carver’s precious cloning project. Now one of those girls is beginning to manifest her powers. And due to an instinctive impulse that is leading her closer and closer to her test-tube origins, Sylvia is rounding up the other three for a final violent confrontation with Carver that could end up rocking the entire world. My teenage friends, you have no idea how much serious ass-kicking is contained in this lil’ GN.

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THE CLOCKWORK GIRL #1 (OF 4) is from the Arcana Kids division of Arcana Studios and writers Kevin Hanna & Sean O’Reilly and artists Grant Bond & Kevin Hanna.

With all the talk about getting kids back into comics - and I know there are members of the iFanbase who read some of their comics with their kids - it’s always nice to find more books for the younger set. The Clockwork Girl is set in a fantastical world of almost magical science. We find that there are two schools of science - those who deal with the natural realm and those whose genius is put to use building fantastic machines and robots. Both factions come together every year for The Haraway Fair, where the mad (but not evil… so far) scientists can show off their newest creations in hopes of winning the grand prize trophy for the greatest creation. There are scientists who have bio-engineered new animals, scientists who have made new kinds of rocks, scientists who have made growth potions for crops, and there is Wilhelm the Tinkerer who regards any scientist who works on anything but robots to be beneath him. His entry into the fair might yet be his greatest creation of all - he has created The Clockwork Girl, a living robot.

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Many tales have tackled the theme of Man versus Machine, with man typically being the winner. In the 19th century, the character John Henry fought against the steam engine and triumphed. Modern versions of this story have man battling Terminators and Cylons and, naturally, man gets to win in both of these situations as well.

But how about a man and machine love story?

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Friend of AICN Comics Grant Chastain has a trade coming out soon from Arcana Comics called CORRECTIVE MEASURES. I had a chance to read the first few issues of this miniseries and I loved it. It places a hard-nosed security guard into a correctional facility for super-criminals. Check out our extended 15 page preview featuring Chastain’s tough-as-nails writing and Fran Moyano’s fantastic art!

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