Xenophobic Knives and Other Love Songs, pt. 1

First published by Starhead Comix in Seattle, 1985. The comic was trimmed so that it was a centimeter shorter than the standard minicomic size at both length and width.

The 1st Danger Room Reprint Ed. of June 2005 had 5 copies with red cardstock covers and yellow and orange guts. It was standard minicomic size. In the Danger Room Ed., the pages inside the covers (which were blank in the Starhead printing) had text explaining the history of the series.

And what was that history? Michael Dowers of Starhead always liked my Cranium Station DMZ-Eternities of Darkness-Hungry Stairs to heaven trilogy, long before he included it in the recent Newave anthology published by Fantagraphics. He asked me to create another one. Xenophobic Knives was planned to be the first of three in a metamorphosis loop series.

For some reason I never really got much steam behind this one. I don't even remember drawing either one of the two issues. The 5-year gap between parts 1 and 2 should tell you something. Part 3 has yet to appear.

To show you how much I've forgotten, I didn't know this minicomic had a secret message until I started scanning it. Then I had to struggle for a few minutes to decode it!