BIO

KIERAN SHEA’s fiction has appeared in dozens of venues including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Thuglit, Dogmatika, Word Riot, Plots with Guns, Beat to a Pulp, Crimefactory, and Needle: A Magazine of Noir ...as well as in some beefy-looking anthologies most of which will make you question the tether of his shiny, red balloon. To his self-deprecating astonishment he's also been nominated for the Story South’s Million Writers Award twice without sending the judges so much as a thank you note. He co-edited the satiric transgressive fiction collection D*CKED: DARK FICTION INSPIRED BY DICK CHENEY and his debut novel KOKO TAKES A HOLIDAY is out now from Titan Books. Kieran divides his time between 38°58′22.6″N- 76°30′4.17″W and 39.2775° N, 74.5750° W.

8/31/09

The Rat That Ate Marvel

Oh man, does this mean we can get our picture taken with Frank Castle and Snow White in Orlando? Loose affiliations and "family" protests have forced the corporate juggernaut to tone down media and wallow in censorship before. Is this the death knell for the Marvel MAX series in all its incarnations? Say it ain't so....

UPDATE: More on this story over at Publishers Weekly's comic blog.