THIS IS NOT A DRILL!  I REPEAT, PRINCELESS FANS, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

New Princeless is in Previews TODAY!  Your comic shop got Previews magazine, from which they order all of their comics TODAY and in that hefty volume is the advertisement for:

PRINCELESS:  SHORT STORIES FOR WARRIOR WOMEN #1

The order code for your comic shop is JUL120704

It is written by Jeremy Whitley (Princeless, Order of Dagonet)

It features an awesome cover by Jules Rivera (Valkyrie Squadron, Hard Graft, Marsh Rocket)

It has amazing interior artwork from:

Nancy King and

Quinne Larsen

and beautiful pinups by:

Tressa Bowling,

Janet Stone-Wade,

Elsa Kreose,

and Laura Guzzo!

AND

AND

Your first look at the first four pages of Princeless Book 2, with art by 

Emily C Martin

and colors by 

Kelly Lawrence

comicmaven:

“Once upon a time, in a castle full of plot-holes there lived the princess Adrienne… who thought fairytales were hogwash and could take care of herself.  Who needs a prince?  Adrienne is happily princeless.”

Great comic - even if I already know about the happy ending that’s sure to follow.

Read the full review here.

Everybody ready to have your mind blown?  This picture, soon to be colored, is titled “Princeless T-Shirt Pencils”.  Take from that what you will.

Every week or so, I want to feature real women who kick butt on the Princeless page.  There are a lot of women worthy of this title, so I’m going to start where it seems most natural:  The Two Jens!

Jen Kling has been a friend of mine for some time.  We met through a friend of a friend and I noticed pretty quickly that Jen would show up places with pretty serious looking bruises.  Finally I decided to ask about it and she said “Oh, that’s from the saber match I won.” 

 Jen was a varsity fencer at UNC and has continued past college to fence competitively and completely destroy any concept I had that I might be good at fencing after two semesters of fencing class.

Only recently have I gotten to know Jen Oldham at all.  Jen Oldham runs the Mid-South Fencer’s Club and she does so with style.  In fact, thanks to her the Mid-South Fencer’s Club should be appearing at the first signing for the Princeless trade at Ultimate Comics in April (more details to come).  In addition to fencing herself, Jen also teaches and organizes several classes for various ages and skill levels of fencers in the Carolinas.

It’s no accident that these two make the list first.  They kick butt in a very literal sense.