Nova Phase
Written by Matthew Ritter
Art by Adam Elbahtimy
Slave Labor Graphics
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Cover Price: #1 Free; #2 $.99

On a dusty backworld planet, Veronica Darkwater dreams of escaping her desolate city via a starcruiser into space. However, her ambitions don’t quite see eye to eye with her bank account, and in order to get the ticket onboard the shuttle, Veronica takes up bounty hunting to earn a living and save up the required funds. Her fate is set, when after taking in her most recent bounty, Veronica keeps the criminal’s “lucky coin” for herself.

Meanwhile a team member of a ragtag space ship crew, Dillard, has been sent to the same planet to retrieve said “lucky coin”, with a deployment of Confederate soldiers hot on his heels in pursuit of the same coin. As Dillard and Veronica’s paths cross, the stage is set for an unlikely pairing and Veronica dreams of space may just become a reality, though not in the exact manner she expected!