Awesome Tales #10

Just a few months after the previous issue, Awesome Tales #10 (Summer 2019) came out recently from Bold Venture Press and Black Cat Media. We get four stories this time, two sequels and two connected stories. For the sequels, we get the second part of the Domino Lady story by Rich Harvey that started in #6, which is featured on the cover that uses some interior artwork from the original pulp stories. Here the Domino Lady continues her fight against a blackmail scheme in New York by the Procuress. The story also involved the Black Legion, a group the Domino Lady faced in one of the original pulp tales. The story will be concluded in a future issue. The other sequel is a tale featuring Luther Kane by Quintin Peterson, who first appeared in the last issue. Luther is a P.I. who lost both lower legs and wears high-tech prosthetics. He again deals with the Russian Mafia, and while this is a standalone story, I am sure story lines from this one will continue in the future. The final two stories are “connected stories.”. While by two separate authors — John L French and Aaron Rosenberg — the stories deal with the same events: the theft of a set of gold playing cards from a tournament, but told from different perspectives. French gives us the perspective from the crooks, similar to watching a “caper film” and rooting for the bad guys to win. Rosenberg tells of how the cops are trying to setup a trap and prevent the theft. It’s another good issue of this zine. I look forward to the conclusion of both the Domino Lady and Fantomas stories. I doubt we’ll get both in the same issue. And I expect we’ll see another Luther Kane story as well. Regardless, the next issue should be good whatever it has. I look forward to it.