By day, Detective Blank is a cop on the trail of a vicious serial killer in the year 1949. But when she sleeps, Blank lives a different life—two hundred years in the future. Is Detective Blank next on the killer's list? Her dreams may hold the key to the case, if only she can remember them in time. The danger mounts and the suspense builds as the detective closes in, in this genre-bending sci-fi noir thriller. For Detective Blank, to catch the killer will mean facing her greatest mystery—herself. Collects the entire story of PAKLIS: 1949, as originally published in PAKLIS #5-7

(W) Dustin Weaver, Jeremy Barlow, D.J. Bryant (A/CA) Dustin Weaver ADVANCE SOLICIT A dreamy and?haunting?collection of standalone tales where perception unravels, identity fractures, and reality bends?delivered with visionary style by Dustin Weaver. A twisted town in the Old West sacrifices one of its own every twelve hours at the demand of a demonic gun. A man finds his mind is trapped in the brain of an insect, and believes the normal world he sees is a delusion. An abandoned roadside motel is home to an entity that has captured the imagination of a passing comic book artist and is drawing him back. The Juniper Lodge?is a self-contained collection of five stories from the pages of Dustin Weaver's anthology series PAKLIS. Unpredictable, idiosyncratic, and original, each story explores themes of perception, memory, and identity while expertly moving between genres with a dynamic style. The psychological and surreal become alluring through Weaver's engaging characters and vivid worlds, while never failing to get under the skin. Collects stories previously published in PAKLIS: #0