STRAY BULLETS SUNSHINE & ROSES (2015)

"STRAY BULLETS CONTINUES WITH THE BEGINNING OF A BRAND-NEW ARC OF STORIES! SUNSHINE AND ROSES is about violence, love, and really bad decisions. The Baltimore underworld is falling apart at the seams and blood has been spilt. Where and when things went to hell in a handbasket can be traced back to a time a few years earlier, when a man named Harry ran the city, Spanish Scott and Monster enforced the rules, and an insecure young man named Orson met a wild and crazy girl named Beth. The two together cooked up the boldest, most outlandish, and just about the stupidest plan ever devised-a plan to steal a whole lot of Harry's money and drugs and get a little revenge along the way. While every issue of STRAY BULLETS presents a complete story, the start of each new arc is the perfect place to jump on board and see what everybody else is talking about."

"You'll never find a happier person than Rose. A single mom living among the worst killers, thieves, and drug addicts in the city, she's never had a down thought cross her mind. Not until her least favorite person hooked up with a boy she was more than sweet on. The day Rose saw Beth and Orson together something broke inside her, and now this air-headed, happy-go-lucky, highly promiscuous, fake-blonde is out for blood-and she doesn't care whose or how much is spilt. Can this buxom bombshell's heart be 'fixed' before she blows up Baltimore and ruins Orson and Beth's own revenge plans, or will the next bouquet of flowers she gets be the ones on her grave?"

"Not a tougher, colder, more feared killer enforces the streets of Baltimore than the man they call Monster. Break the rules and the last thing you're likely to see is what's pressed hard up against the inside of his steady black eyes-rage...the true monster, trying to rip and claw its way out from the inside. With an ironclad will and a robotic efficiency, Monster has never let the beast out unchecked. Today, though, his supreme control is going to be tested. The Finger has taken down one of his people, he's lost a vital shipment of Harry's drugs, his neighbor's dog is on its third week of dying loudly, and the one girl who's seen his other side and come away unscathed-the girl that made the monster-is about to walk back into his life and twist his head around once again..."

"A new player has hit the streets of Baltimore. His name is Kretchmeyer, and with a single shot, he's turned the city's underbelly inside out. Now with a manhunt underway, war threatening, and Monster roaming the city imposing his own brand of law and order, Kretchmeyer is ready for the second part of his Master Plan...find a girlfriend. Finding the woman of his dreams is not a problem, but keeping her will prove far harder than any assassination. Kretch, though, is a young man not to be deterred, and as the manhunt closes in and the noose tightens around his neck, he's hell-bent on seeing through his grand scheme...even if it sends both of them to the grave."

"Nina: Spoiled, a user, undeniably beautiful. The perfect femme fatale. A tragic past has left her a prisoner in a prison without bars. Now all she has is a brief window of freedom to find the only person who can help her escape and exact her revenge. But as the clock ticks toward her approaching doom-the only person who can help her can barely help himself..."

"Just mere days before Beth, Orson, Nina, Rose, and Kretchmeyer are about to pull off the crime of the century, Orson discovers a fatal flaw in their carefully laid out plan: It's convoluted, confusing, ill-conceived, and riddled with more holes than a can of Spaghetti-O's! Something needs to change and change fast, or they're all going to wind up dead...or worse. But with a gang of partners driven by their own agendas, inner rages, raging hormones, and self-medicating supplementation, that's easier said than done. As he traces the plan through the underbelly of Baltimore, Orson begins to suspect that Spanish Scott may be on to them, and that no matter what they do, it may already be far too late..."

"To be announced."

"Kretchmeyer must fix his shattered family or risk losing his own carefully constructed sanity."

"To be announced."

"As Beth, Orson, and Nina plot the downfall of the gangster Harry, their ally, the surgical killer Kretchmeyer, realizes he's being played.... Major Plot Point: The turning point of the Sunshine & Roses story arc. "

"Three days from pulling off the crime of the century, Beth must confront the realization that she's about to get everyone she's ever loved killed ."

"With Kretchmeyer forcing their hand, the heist is happening tonight whether Beth and Orson like it or not, and they must come to terms with the fact that they're likely to be caught, subjected to unimaginable torture and pain, then die."

"STORY / ART / COVER: DAVID LAPHAM Monster has figured out Beth, Orson, and Nina's master plan, and now the only thing standing between them and certain death is...well...Orson."

"Spanish Scott must make a fateful decision on who he wants to kill more."

"Orson, Beth, and Nina have to get out of Baltimore before it's too late."

"As Orson, Beth, and Nina try to figure out how to get away from Kretchmeyer, the connection between an unwanted stowaway and a strange motel clerk may prove even more deadly."

"Meet Annie Chesswick, the 'Queen of Palm Court.' To know this forty, thirty-five, thirty, twenty-six-year-old, foul-mouthed beauty is to love her right up to the point that you're dead."

"Beaten, battered, and running for their lives, Beth, Orson, Nina, and Joey learn that sticks and stones can break bones, but words can get you dead."

"After everything they nearly died for is suddenly gone, Beth, Orson, and Nina must become Other People or risk losing their minds."

"When the mob threatens her mom's life, Beth makes the most absolutely, completely, and totally awful decision of her life...She tries to help."

"On the run, used, abused, and taken for all they're worth, Beth, Orson, and Nina are just hoping to live through the night, but three little numbers and a comic book just might make that impossible..."

"Things fall apart for Annie, as they often do...but as they say, it's not how many times you fall down that counts, but how filthy, stinkin' rich you get when you pick yourself back up."

"Before the Cock's Crow heist, there were the good ol' days, when love filled the air and murder was something done to...other people."

"You never saw this pair coming, but now, the world of crime will never be the same again."

"An unholy (and objectively quite icky) union leads to a massacre in a small town."

"Kretchmeyer takes a trip down memory lane and finds himself on a bloody stretch of bad road."

"Annie unleashes her inner ugliness, shoots a gun, and finds love. "

"The Derek cannot be stopped... at least until he gets everybody killed but good."

"Lil' B's been separated from Boris and sentenced to a reform school run by her hated mother...and her other hated mother."

"Take a trippy trip down the road to hell with a man who would be lost without his banana."

"Bumbling, bullets, and bottles bring old enemies back together...and together again."

"Kretchmeyer and Annie make a drastic decision after realizing that their lives just suck without enormous amounts of money and power."

"Back in Baltimore, Kretchmeyer has a fateful encounter with Spanish Scott, and it's sunshine and roses overkill for Vic."

"Vic's nightmares get worse, and as they bleed into reality, he realizes their origin may be extraterrestrial...or something."

"Kretchmeyer hatches a plan to find Beth and finally get revenge, but Vic's impending wedding may upset his plans."

"As battle lines are drawn, a semi-psychotic psychedelic philosopher king named Love Yourself suddenly finds himself the most popular man in the city."

"Meanwhile in Arizona, it's blood on the highway as a problem is located and a fateful decision must be made by Beth and Orson."

"Lil' B and Boris are on the run from everybody. With no one to trust they take a gamble on a remote, off-the-grid station that may be full of insane people, but hopefully insane people who have never heard of them "

"An ill-advised phone call may spell the end for Beth and Orson. Their only hope might be an in an urgent message from an imaginary character."

"'LOVE AND ATTENTION' Beth, Orson, and Nina are in the hospital, and they find that, for the first time, their lives-and deaths-are completely out of their hands."

"The fate of Baltimore and beyond rests in the hands of the rapidly unraveling Kretchmeyer."

"It's a beautiful day on the open road. Plenty of sunshine, plenty of roses and a little murder."