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VS.
The Versus Anthology
edited by Josh Woods

9 x 6 paperback, 178 pages
ISBN 978-0-9824416-1-9

$16.00
A uniquie blend of literary and graphic stories from some of today's edgiest, genre-bending writers!
CONTENTS

My Father VS. The Soap Lady, by Alexander Lumans

The Six Million Dollar Man VS. Jaws, by Brad Vice

Orgo VS. The Flatlanders, by Pinckney Benedict

The Devil’s Advocate: Moe Howard VS. Mother Teresa, by John McNally

Emile Griffith and Muhammad Ali Inhabit the Bodies
of the Last Roosters to Legally Fight in Louisiana,
August 15, 2008
&
Peleas de Gallo: Hector Velazquez, 32, Caesar Julius’s
Cocker, Pumpkin Center, LA,
August 15, 2008, by Michael Garriga

Wrestling with Andy Kaufman, by Margaret McMullan

The 103rd Story, or How Murph Jr. Beats Murph to the Top
of the Sears Tower, by John Flaherty

Theodore Roosevelt VS. Spring Heeled Jack,
an Interviewings by Me, El Pollo Diablo,
Dead Pirate of the Netherworld, by El Pollo Diablo

Dragonfruit VS. Dragonfruit:
The Versus & The Verdict, by Matt Guenette & Michael Theune

Amy VS. Herself, by Danielle Girard Kraus

Kyle Minor VS. Else Richter, by Kyle Minor & Joshua Archer

Amelia Earhart VS. The ’Burbs, by Susan Woodring

The Dark Saint, by Curtis Smith

Arthur Miller Walks into a Bar, A Five Minute Screenplay:
Arthur Miller VS. Joe DiMaggio, by Andrew Scott

The Girl I Thought I Would Marry When I Was Six VS. The Woman I
Did Marry When I Was Twenty-Six, by Michael Kimball

The Impossible Division by Zero:
Hulk VS. Hel, Goddess of the Underworld, by Okla Elliott

Barbie VS. Stalin, by Stacey Richter

Lynch VS. Dali, by John Dimes

Love VS. Lust, by Laura Benedict

Dorothy Gale VS. Alice Liddell, by Becky Hagenston

Fighting Bull, by K. H. Solomon

Jesus VS. Thor, by Josh Woods

Panel from Orgo VS. The Flatlanders, by Pinckney Benedict
From the Introduction
by Josh Woods, editor

Let’s pick a fight. And not just any fight, let’s pick a fight between our most iconic characters and forces, or even between extraordinary, original characters, or with people from our very real pasts. Anything goes. Some of today’s most innovative writers and artists did just that in this book: each picked a conflict, made it come to life, and now present the aftermath to you here in the first anthology to take up this challenge, Versus.
SOME FIRST LINES...

"Both my father and the soap lady have only their right arms." -- My Father VS. The Soap Lady, by Alexander Lumans

"When I was first asked to interview two great antagonistses, I balked at the idea." -- Theodore Roosevelt VS. Spring Heeled Jack, an Interviewings by Me, El Pollo Diablo,
Dead Pirate of the Netherworld, by El Pollo Diablo

"What happens when you run out of gas while hopping across the Pacific Ocean in a scrappy twin-engine cloud buster is you fall from the sky, crash into said ocean, and float about, clinging to a bit of wreckage for the better part of a century." -- Amelia Earhart VS. The ’Burbs, by Susan Woodring

"Dear Kathy Granger,
"Do you remember when I used to stand on the sidewalk outside of your house and yell out your name until you came outside to play with me?" -- The Girl I Thought I Would Marry When I Was Six VS. The Woman I Did Marry When I Was Twenty-Six, by Michael Kimball

"My sister Vickie sat on the burnt-orange couch in the living room, talking into the phone, as Dr. Doom’s faceless, pink-and-gunmetal-gray doombots closed in on the house."
-- The Impossible Division by Zero:
Hulk VS. Hel, Goddess of the Underworld, by Okla Elliott

"In the matter of Barbie v. Stalin, a troika of judges will render a final decision." -- Barbie VS. Stalin, by Stacey Richter

"Lust pierced the veil separating her from the children of Adam, touching them with her face, her palms and fingers, causing their skin to ripple and shiver, distracting them from their Noble Thoughts." -- Love VS. Lust, by Laura Benedict

"A girl couldn’t stay here forever, in a podunk town in the middle of nowhere, and thank God Jason agreed with her."
-- Dorothy Gale VS. Alice Liddell, by Becky Hagenston

"Now it came to pass, under the sign of Pisces, that a vision was opened & was given." -- Jesus VS. Thor, by Josh Woods