ELEPHANT MAN
Greg HOUSTON
Baltimore has a great hero. He’s always there just when he’s needed to thwart crime! This marvel is Elephant Man. Yes, none other than the deformed and hideous man himself! But such power and the adulation that follows it begets much jealousy. Before you know it, one of the city’s best known TV anchors, ‘handsome’ Dick Denton and another hideous being fused by some radioactive accident: the Priest, The Rabbi and The Duck, come together to seek his demise and ridicule him in public! Will Elephant Man overcome this new challenge? Another hilariously silly exercise in grotesquery, spoofing superheroes, from the acclaimed brilliant artist of Vatican Hustle.
"As a broad parody of Superman, I thought this first issue was spot on. My favorite side characters were the Big Hair Tough Girls. Grade: 7 out of 10." -Sequential Tart
"Houston’s line work, which crackles with just a little bit of genuine crazy on top of the rigorously enforced wackiness, is a frenetic and occasionally grotesque delight."
-Gutter Geek at The Comics Journal
"Come for the art, stay for the derangement." -SF Site
"Cheerfully grotesque. Has its sweetly offensive moments."
-Blogcritics
"Houston draws like the deranged love child of Ralph Steadman and Kevin O’Neill and writes like Bob Burden after a particularly substance-filled long weekend with Hunter S. Thompson; Elephant Man will be published by NBM, and there’s no way that anything stranger will be on your local shelves at that point."
-Andrew Wheeler, Antick Musings
6x9, 80pp, B&W trade pb., $9.99, ISBN 978-1-56163-588-X

VATICAN HUSTLE
Greg Houston
NBM launches a stunning new talent whose art is a hilariously grotesque cross between Ralph Steadman, Basil Wolverton and Chester Gould’s bad guys in a resolutely lowbrow sendup of blaxpoitation films. When a crime boss’ daughter turns up missing, who’s he gonna call? Boss Karate Black Guy Jones, that’s who, chump!! The two-fisted, karate chopping, crime solving machine is kicking ass and taking names from the gutters of Baltimore all the way to the streets of Rome. No dog’s too big for this cat to take down! Mimes, clowns, drunks, pizza, donkeys, pornography, gambling! Vatican Hustle has it all!
"a uniquely comedic explosion of tightly-constructed gags and funny drawings."
-Rob Clough- The Comics Journal
“This is definitely the work of a unique talent, and there isn’t anything else like it. Vatican Hustle is like no other book you will read this year, and that’s damn impressive.”
-Andrew Wheeler, ComicMix
“A love letter to the blacksploitation genre penned in the only manner such a note can successfully be executed: way the hell over the top. Houston clearly had a blast writing and drawing Vatican Hustle, and his joy is infectious.”
-Brian Heater, The Daily Cross Hatch
“The art looks kind of Ralph Steadman-y. Nice and messy and whorl-y. I like it a lot. Recommended. Blaxploitation parodies are definitely played out, but Houston has an alternative enough edge to his work that this book is visually and structurally interesting. I’m looking forward to seeing more work by him.”
-The Stranger
“You can’t get enough of these characters from page to page; you want to read what other sick s**t the Holiest of Holies has gotten himself into lately. You want to see the Boss Karate Black Guy Jones tap some tail and kick some fat ass. Houston’s art is just as exaggerated and over-the-top as his stories, and every character receives the royal and perverted treatment. Tits are huge, wrinkles and saggy jowls are pronounced. Jones’ outfit of platform heels, pin-striped bell bottoms and UFO style afro alone helps make the book massively amusing.”
-Comics Waiting Room
6x9, 132pp., B&W trade pb.: $11.95,
ISBN 978-1-56163-571-9

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