Welcome to Tales From Variant Earth 13, a source of stories based in the world that the various heroes, villains, and other assorted nutjobs here inhabit. Most of these began as 'online comics' I wrote for my good pal Crowe, who hosts one heck of a large online literature repository, www.lit.org, but they've evolved a bit past that. For one thing, I seem to have a whole bunch more to write.

I began with just one story, that of a group of intrepid investigators attempting to catalog various oddities for a cross-time agency that viewed their world as a great nexus of multiversal causality. The stories waiting to be told in Variant Earth 13, as the timeline has come to be identified by said cross-time agency, have multiplied exponentially, though, so I figured I'd try this, a sort of 'universe' of titles.

I've decided to go with four titles for the time being, though this may fluctuate as things progress. For one thing, I may have bitten off more than I can chew, and may need to cut back. Or, I may simply cease one title for a time and begin another story, either on a temporary or permanent basis... but we'll only find out by going there. Before you go any further, though, I must give you a disclaimer or two.

For once thing, regular (or even irregular) Technohol 13 visitors may notice that I, Firebomb, tend to restrain myself in the face of bad language and otherwise questionable material. However, some of these stories are incredibly violent, and feature more than their fair share of foul-mouthed characters, both good and bad. If this is a problem, I would recommend that you do not actually read any of these tales.

I assure you that nothing X-rated will be occurring in these stories, but I figured I should warn you in advance that this isn't necessarily 'family friendly' literature, here. I suppose that's the only real disclaimer I need to share with you all, so I'll stop going on about that now. So, to stop keeping you all in suspense, here's the current issues of Tales From Variant Earth 13 for your reading pleasure:

The Universal Squad # 1 - A Beginning: all teams tend to have a beginning, instead of just spontaneously springing into existence, and this is the chain of events that eventually causes the formation of our very own Universal Squad - not that anyone involved would really have a clue at the time just how weird things were going to get once they put on the spandex...

The Universal Squad # 26 - Switchback: in the fallout of the Universal Squad's utter defeat at the hands of Roy Shijitzu's Calamity Conspiracy, we begin to pick up the pieces by first looking in on what happened to poor Firebomb after the team was scattered all about space and time willy-nilly. Of course, Roy tracks our hero down before too long, and naturally, hijinks ensue...

Agency 13 # 15 - Not Quite a Swamp Thing: following his rebirth last issue, the environmental mystic George Baker starts a rampage in the Florida suburbs. Heading there to check out strange reports of his doings, Sticks McLellan and Chase Storey are troubled not by Baker so much as two earlier antagonists who have more than one bone to pick with them...

Hate Ball #1 (the Crazy Hate #25) - Rebirtheded - a failed super hero, Russell Barnett has gone by many aliases: Gunner, 8-Ball. But it takes the threat of a truly insidious secret society to finally awaken the true nature of his super human abilities, and to finally become the man he always knew he could be - even if it involves giving in to the mindless hate required to fully activate his inherent technopsionic potential...

the Reincarnator #1 (Seven #13) - A Crowd of One: meet Robert. At least that's what his current name is. Robert is a nigh-unique individual in that he's been reincarnated over and over at least as early as the dawn of the human race - if not before. Of course, in his current state he's but a seemingly normal high school student, trying to change the world with the weight of History on his side...!

In the event that you're starting from the beginning, or perhaps missed an issue or so of your favorite Tales From Variant Earth 13 series, this is simply a listing of each title that's either in production, coming soon, or currently 'out of print' for the sake of convenience.

Agency 13: these are the tales of six or so intrepid investigators assembled by Mike 013 and the so-called Jensen Congress to investigate strange happenings on Mike's world. This because Mike's timeline, known as Earth 13, is a nexus of sorts, where events that take place echo forth on a countless number of timelines - and studying events here can predict them elsewhere...

the Crazy Hate: these are the stories of eight (of course) heroes who start out all by themselves, but ultimately wind up getting together to form a team unified by its members' outcast status in society. Having nobody else to lean on, these eight heroes fight injustice on their own terms, and rarely have dealings with official law-enforcement types - except when such folks are hunting the Hate down...!

the Universal Squad: similar to Seven, the Universal Squad starts out somewhat slow, in that the group doesn't begin as a full-blown hero team. They don't wait twenty eight issues to reach that point, though, so there's that. At any rate, this is a team started by the heroic Firebomb, after his pal Mike inadvertently grants him great powers - not that the team's very good at super-heroics...