Where High Octane Muscle-Car Mayhem
And Trigger-Happy Cigarette Girls Meet

No doubt you've already heard about Black Diamond, the whiplash-inducing high-octane adventure that takes place on quasi-futuristic elevated interstate system by muscle-car aficionados Larry Young and Jon Proctor. And you've certainly already heard about Smoke And Guns, the original story about warring gangs of heavily armed girls who sell cigarettes for a living and buy bullets for protection from rival districts by Brazilian artist Fabio Moon and the Isotope's own Kirsten Baldock, who just so happens to be a former cigarette girl herself.

Sure you've heard about it, but have you seen it?

Well now you can! Find out what the buzz is about for yourself thanks to this massive 16 page PDF preview of AIT/PlanetLar's most hotly anticipated book of the summer the Black Diamond/Smoke & Guns Flip Book.

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With orders for this book due in just over a week it's not too late to call your local retailer and demand a copy of this book. You can reach the Isotope's Black Diamond/Smoke & Guns Flip-Book Hotline at (415) 753 - 3037. For more information click here.

That Pop Culture Gadabout, Bill Sherman, totally gets the scope and context of Filler and reviews it thusly. Me, I much prefer reading reviews of comics where the critic looks at what is and what's attempted instead of what he wants the work to be. Much more satisfying for everyone concerned: "Part of the pleasure of stories like this rests in our watching the protagonist take steps that we and they know are gonna get them in trouble – but they take those steps anyway. Filler remains true to that formula."

The Black Diamond: On Ramp artist Jon Proctor loads up and fires in his interview over on The Pulse.

This is the artist, his missus, and TBD fan Thora Birch. If I had any sense I'd write a sassy waitress part into the book pronto.

Johnny B waves his martini glass at Filler: "Of course, the most obvious comparison to make, especially at this moment in time, is that this is just a knockoff of Sin City or even 100 Bullets - but that's both true and not true. Sure, this occupies the same territory, but writer Rick Spears and artist Rob (The Couriers) G don't give us the pervasive cynical negativism that Frank Miller brings to nearly everything he does, and that's a big plus for me. Still, John's situation ends up reminding us of Marv and Goldie, and the events depicted certainly do follow that bloody-noir template."

JK at Trash Heap uses a honkin' big scan of the Filler cover to tout this week's new releases, and writes simply: "Rick Spears and Rob G are awesome."

...and longtime Dunkin' Donuts pusher August De Blieck, Jr. calls Filler "a deceptively simple and gripping story... Rick Spears' script is sparse, but packed with punches... Rob G's art relies much less on the action-packed manga-oriented style that he usually uses... simply put, Rob G's finest artistic moment."

Filler is in finer comic stores everywhere tomorrow.