Somewhere out West is a town no one knows about - a desert town whose inhabitants wait for the day a great earthquake will bring them beachfront property. Here, two young lovers on the run from the Mob will learn that love is more than just another four-letter word. A once-beautiful, now-broken woman will let the demons of her past pull her down into a thick soup of depravity and death. A betrayed little girl running from everything will decide to help someone and be scarred forever. And a big lug with big dreams will achieve fame and glory and then throw it all away. These are just some of the people whose tales will stick in your gut for the rest of your days.

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The fictional world of Lapham's Harvey Award-winning comics series, Stray Bullets, is populated by an iconoclastic collection of cold-blooded thugs, hapless dope fiends and smart kids running from bad homes. This volume, sequel to Innocence of Nihilism, focuses on good-looking, utterly criminal Beth, her ineffectual boyfriend, Orson, and her drug-addled best friend, Nina, the former girlfriend of a mysterious gangster named Harry. On the run after stealing a load of Harry's cocaine, the trio is lying low in the absurd little town of Seaside, founded 100 miles from the coast by an earthquake-fixated developer who expected the next big tremor to bring the ocean to him. Seaside residents are a hilarious group of losers and sleazeballs, yet Orson decides the town is the perfect place to hide from homicidal drug dealers. Lapham's comical pulp-crime stories are thoroughly entertaining, full of heart-stopping action and over-the-top violence. Beautifully illustrated in black and white, they are rescued from empty sensationalism by the author's extraordinary draftsmanship; his quirky, unsentimental sense of comedy; and the genuine interactions he generates between his irresistibly flawed characters. The book also includes early drafts, sketches and supplementary material about Lapham.
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