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| The Perhapanauts | |
|---|---|
 Cover to trade paperback edition ofPerhapanauts: First Blood | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dark Horse (2005) Image (2008) |
| First appearance | First Blood #1 (November2005) |
| Created by | Todd Dezago Craig Rousseau |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | BEDLAM |
| Member(s) | Arisa MG Big Molly Choopie Karl |
The Perhapanauts is anAmerican comic book series created by writerTodd Dezago and artistCraig Rousseau in 2005.[1]
The first twomini-series, "First Blood" and "Second Chances",[2] were published byDark Horse Comics, but later in 2008, the Perhapanauts comics were published byImage Comics.[3]
The Image Comics series began with an annual in February2008, "Jersey Devil",[4] followed by what may either be numerous then-upcoming mini-series or an ongoing series. The first series is "Triangle" taking the team into theBermuda Triangle, which started publication in April 2008.[5]
Besides their own title, the Perhapanauts appeared in 2008'sImage Monster Pile-Up, a one-shot anthology comic that also featuredThe Astounding Wolf-Man,Proof, andFirebreather.
The story follows a team ofsupernatural investigators (in that they both investigate the supernatural, and are supernatural beings who investigate) working for a top-secret government agency called BEDLAM, the Bureau of Extra-Dimensional Liability And Management. The organization is dedicated to finding strange and frightening creatures that have crossed over into this world where the fabric of reality has worn thin and sending them back to where they came from. The main focus is on Blue Team, a special unit of BEDLAM operatives.
The members of Blue Team are Arisa Hines, the group's young black leader whoseparanormal powers includetelepathy andtelekinesis; Big, a super-strongSasquatch whose intelligence has been artificially evolved to genius level; Choopie, a feisty littleChupacabra with the somewhat erratic personality of a six year old boy; MG, a mysterious good-looking guy in dark glasses who appears human but possesses otherworldly knowledge and the ability to "slide" between dimensions; and Molly MacAllistar, a cute teenageghost still getting used to being dead.
Other characters in the series include Joann DeFile,housewife turned BEDLAM's Resident Psychic Advisor and self-appointed "den mother"; Peter Hammerskold, a formerMarine with the ability to "read" the history of anything he touches who is the leader of BEDLAM's Red Team and sees Blue Team as rivals; the Merrow, afairy-winged Irishwater-sprite withelemental powers who is part of Red Team; and Karl, a lonely, goodheartedMothman exiled by his fellowtime-traveling harbingers of doom who wants to be a full-time member of Blue Team but is kept back as a BEDLAM reservist due to his clumsiness and barely controlled ability to broadcast waves ofnightmarishhallucination-inducing fear when he feels threatened.
Although their recurring arch-foe is the large, vicious and incredibly ancient shapeshifter theChimaera who has proven extremely difficult to contain or destroy, Blue Team has also fought theJersey Devil, sharp-tonguedFilipinovampire theAswang, and Karl's own cruel clan who want to prevent him from using his ability to navigate the nexus of space and time and all possible realities known as Par-Ha ("The Perhaps") to aid in BEDLAM missions.
The series have been collected intotrade paperbacks:
AKickstarter campaign was organized in 2015 to allow the creators to publish a new graphic novel. The resulting "Into Hollow Earth", a 64-page hardcover story, was released in January 2016 to backers who pledged within a sufficientcrowdfunding tier. It has since been made available for purchase through the store of the official Perhapanauts website.
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