THEREFORE REPENT! Copyright © 2007 by Jim Munroe and Salgood Sam. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA. No Media Kings 10 Trellanock Ave. Toronto ON M1C 5B5 Canada www.nomediakings.org
[email protected] Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Munroe, Jim, 1972Therefore repent! : a post-Rapture graphic novel / Jim Munroe ; illustrations by Salgood Sam. ISBN 978-0-9686363-4-3 I. Sam, Salgood II. Title. PS8576.U5747T44 2007 C813’.54 C2007-904714-9 An excerpt from this book appeared in Taddle Creek Vol. 10, No. 1. Distributed through Insomniac Press <www.insomniacpress.com> in Canada. Published by IDW <www.idwpublishing.com> in the United States. We can publish a novel independently, but we can’t do it alone. Thanks to our editing team: Suzanne Andrew, Carol Borden, Susan Bustos, Claudia Dávila, Todd Dills, Shannon Gerard, Nancy Johnston, Carma Jolly, Guy Leshinski, Hamish MacDonald, Craig Macnaughton, Joe Meno, Marc Ngui, Matthew Shepherd, Jef Smith, Conan Tobias, Scott Waters, & Jessica Westhead. Thanks also to Peter Birkemoe, Chris Butcher, Terry Grogan, Michel Lacombe, Terry Lau, Mike O’Connor, & Cassandra Witteman. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada.
Salgood Sam is Maxim Douglas backwards: Toronto-born, Montreal-based artist and author. Since the early ‘90s he’s worked professionally for Marvel, DC & other commercial comic publishers as well as in the alternative world of zines and underground comix. In recent years his work has appeared in a variety of comics, such as Terminator 3: Before the Rise (Beckett Comics), the bloody swashbuckling Sea of Red (Image Comics), & Revolution on the Planet of the Apes (Mr Comics). In 2005 he was nominated for the Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent for his self-published book RevolveR, and in 2006 he received a grant from The Canada Council for the Arts to complete another graphic novel currently in the works. He’s also worked in animation and as an illustrator, but his first love has always been pictures that talk with balloons. www.salgoodsam.com
Jim Munroe had his first novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask published by HarperCollins. Despite their interest in his second book, he was uncomfortable with the corporate ownership and went back to his indie press roots. He founded No Media Kings, named in dishonour of right-wing media magnate Rupert Murdoch, and published his next book in Canada himself — it sold just as well, made him more money, and drew attention to the issues of media consolidation and the alternatives to it. His do-it-yourself publishing resource website created an international network of people through which he was able to start The Perpetual Motion Roadshow — a volunteer-run circuit that sent a hundred people on seven-city tours. He recently released a lo-fi sci-fi no-budget movie he wrote and co-produced called Infest Wisely. www.nomediakings.org
For Raven and Mummy’s origin story, read Jim Munroe’s An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil. For a bonus prequel to this novel, check out Jim Munroe and Michel Lacombe’s 24-page online comic at www.nomediakings.org/BE.htm
What if the religious right... are actually right? Without warning, a multitude of Christians float bodily up into the sky. For the immoral majority, life goes on pretty much as usual. Except that after the Rapture, magic works — for those willing to risk demonic mutations. And an angelic army appears to have been deployed to mop up the sinners. But through it all, outsiders Raven and Mummy face the possibility of a bigger problem than the end of the world: the end of their relationship.
“Therefore Repent! is great. Loved the conflict between the old and new religions, plus it’s got Jesus and mutants.” — Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned “It’s an excellent book — a funny, cool riff on superpowers and twentysomethingness.” — Neil Gaiman on Jim Munroe’s Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask
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