Fantastic Femmes--Ivana Baquero

Looks sweet and innocent, doesn't she?

However, most of multi-award-winning Spanish actress Ivana Baquero's acting career had been in genre films, primarily horror!

Her next genre appearance will be her first American-produced film; New Daughter, with Kevin Costner!

Genre appearances include...

New Daughter (Louisa James)

Pan's Labyrinth (Ofelia)

X-Mas Tale (Moni)

Rottweiler (Esperanza)

Fragile (Patient)

Romasanta aka Werewolf Hunter: Legend of Romasanta (Ana)

Check out...

Ivana's FaceBook Page

Ivana Baquero FanSource (FanSite)

You'll LOVE Love Diaries and Love Letters for Valentine's Day!

Until the intro of texting, blogs, MySpace and FaceBook, the main way people kept track of their love lives was thru Love Diaries & Love Letters!
In fact, they made up one of the most popular sub-categories of romance comics, with literally dozens of titillating titles!

Let our selection of the best of these these kitchy, campy (and very kool) classic comics covers help you express your true feelings on the Most Important of Days--Valentines Day on greeting cards, teddy bears, mugs, and even "naughty" undies!

And, if they can't assist your love-life, perhaps something from one of our other sections at True Love Comics Tales™ including...
All You Need is Love...
Beatrice Fairfax
Confessions
Lovers Lane
School of Love (or is that Love in School?)
WarTime Love
Weddings
Western Love
will help get your point across on the Most Important of Days!

Design of the Week--School Day Romances!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...Combine high school with hormonally-charged teens and you have the ancestor of Beverly Hills 90210...romance comic books!
It's cool!
It's campy!
It's classic!
(And it's just in time to make a GREAT Valentine's Day gift on tops, bottoms, t-shirts, mugs and other goodies!)

The ORIGINAL Miss LonelyHearts Columnist: Beatrice Fairfax...

Comic books aren't just about spandex-clad heroes and heroines in battles of cosmic import!

They also tell intimate tales of heartbreak and joy, betrayal and redemption, and misery and true love.
God knows we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ can relate...

On that note, here are kool, retro, romantic, Valentine's Day kollectibles featuring Beatrice Fairfax!
"Who?" you may ask!
Before Dear Abby, before Ann Landers, Beatrice Fairfax was the original Miss Lonely Hearts, dispensing sage advice in her newspaper column long before the Internet.
Let her help you express your true feelings on the Most Important of Days--Valentines Day with greeting cards, teddy bears, mugs, and even "naughty" undies!

And, if she can't assist your love-life, perhaps something from one of our other sections at True Love Comics Tales™ including...
All You Need is Love...
Confessions
Diaries and Letters
Lovers Lane
School of Love (or is that Love in School?)
WarTime Love
Weddings
Western Love
can help you get your point across!

On Valentine's Day, tell him (or her) "Giddyap, Honey!"

Valentine's Day is almost upon us, and nothing says I Love You like gunpowder, horse blankets, and guys who don't bathe for days, right?
Right?
Someone thought so back in the 1950s, when two of the most popular genres--romances and Westerns were combined into Western romances (or Romantic Westerns) in both prose fiction and comics.
True Love Comics Tales™ has digitally-restored and remastered the best of the comic cover art from that all-too-brief shining period of American literature for a new line of Valentine's Day goodies including greeting cards, diaries, teddy bears, even shirts, tops, and, well...bottoms for men and women at Western Love™
Just the thing for the cowboy or cowgirl in your life!

A Valentine's Day Public Service message from the buckaroos at Atomic Kommie Comics™

War is Hell...but so is LOVE!

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ know that the path of love is not always smooth, especially in wartime.
In tribute to the brave men and women of the armed forces, we've created a new section of True Love Comics Tales™ about military-based love comic books entitled WarTime Love™ just in time for Valentine's Day featuring greeting cards, teddy bears, clothing and a host of other goodies with vintage retro romance comic cover art.
Show your beloved, be they an officer, noncom, or GI Joe (or GI Jane) that you're thinking of them on Valentine's Day.

You'll love...LOVE DIARIES and LOVE LETTERS for Valentine's Day!

Until the intro of texting, blogs, MySpace and FaceBook, the main way people kept track of their love lives was thru Love Letters and Love Diaries!
In fact, they made up one of the most popular sub-categories of romance comics, with literally dozens of titillating titles!

Let our selection of the best of these these kitchy, campy (and very kool) classic comics covers help you express your true feelings on the Most Important of Days--Valentines Day on greeting cards, teddy bears, mugs, and even "naughty" undies!

And, if they can't assist your love-life, perhaps something from one of our other sections at True Love Comics Tales™ including...
All You Need is Love...
Beatrice Fairfax
Confessions
Lovers Lane
School of Love (or is that Love in School?)
WarTime Love
Weddings
Western Love
will help get your point across on the Most Important of Days!

Fantastic Femmes--Nikki Reed

It's hard to follow up a critically-acclaimed movie you both co-wrote and starred in (especially when it's your debut film), but Nicole Houston Reed managed to do so after the success of Thirteen (opposite fellow Fantastic Femme Vanessa Hudgens)!
Better known as "Nikki Reed", the talented lady has received rave notices for playing quirky characters in smaller, intimate films like American Gun and Mini's First Time.

Genre appearances include...

Twilight / Twilight Saga: New Moon / Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Rosalie Hale)

Reaper [unaired version of the Pilot] (Andi)

Check out...

NikkiReedFan (FanSite)

Nikki Reed Central (FanSite)

Nikki Reed Dot Org (FanSite)

N-ReedDotOrg (FanSite)

Other actresses to play Andi include Missy Peregrym (Reaper the series)

Have a LOST Season Premiere party!

Mysteries aplenty await you on February 2, 2010, as you gather around the tv to watch the season premiere of the FINAL season of ABC's LOST!
Among them...
Will the LOSTies be reunited?
If so, WHEN? (In what time period?)
Who lives? Who dies? (Does it really matter on The Island?)

If you're like us, you're gonna gather together to watch the show.
And, like us, you're gonna make it a theme party!

Here's some decor and party favor ideas...coincidentally, all available from us!  ;-)

TO begin with, send out classy invites...
Mystery Tales #40 postcards (8 pack)
Mystery Tales #40 notecards w/envelopes (10 pack)
Mystery Tales #40 notecards w/envelopes (20 pack)
Mystery Tales Logo postcards (8 pack)
Mystery Tales Logo notecards w/envelopes (10 pack)
Mystery Tales Logo notecards w/envelopes (20 pack)

Then, stock up on drinkware and coasters...
Mystery Tales #40 mug
Mystery Tales Logo mug
Mystery Tales #40 tile coaster
Mystery Tales #40 alternate tile coaster
Mystery Tales Logo tile coaster
Mystery Tales #40 rubber coaster
Mystery Tales #40 rubber coaster set of 4
Mystery Tales Logo rubber coaster
Mystery Tales Logo rubber coaster set of 4

Decorations to set the mood...
Mystery Tales #40 wall clock
Mystery Tales Logo wall clock
Mystery Tales #40 refrigerator magnetMystery Tales Logo refrigerator magnet
Mystery Tales #40 9.5" x 14" mini-poster
Mystery Tales #40 throw pillow case
Mystery Tales #40 decorative porcelain plate
Mystery Tales Logo decorative porcelain plate

How about mini-buttons as party favors?
Mystery Tales #40 mini-buttons (10 pack)
Mystery Tales Logo mini-buttons (10 pack)
Mystery Tales #40 mini-buttons (100 pack)
Mystery Tales Logo mini-buttons (100 pack)

If you do a trivia contest, how about giving the winner a Mystery Tales #40 keychain or a Mystery Tales Logo keychain or a Mystery Tales Logo Cap or Mystery Tales Logo Trucker Hat?

Visit our Mystery Tales #40 stores for the complete line of kool kollectibles!
Mystery Tales #40 CafePress Store
Mystery Tales Logo CafePress Store
Mystery Tales #40 ArtsNow Store
Mystery Tales #40 Printfection Store

Fantastic Femmes--Estella Warren

Best-known as a swimsuit (Sports Illustrated) and lingere model (Victoria's Secret), former Olympic swimmer Estella Warren has demonstrated a natural acting talent as well as an ability for doing all but the most demanding stunts!

Genre appearances include...

Ghost Whisperer (Alexis Fogarty)

Law & Order / L&O: Special Victims Unit (April Troost)

Planet of the Apes [2001] (Daena)

Check out...
Estella Warren Info (FanSite)

The NEW Green Hornet series by Kevin Smith

Here's a look at art from the NEW Green Hornet mini-series from Dynamite Comics.

You'll note that Kato is a woman, like the NOW Comics multi-generational series of the 80s.

This is not to say that it is the same character with same backstory.

No doubt, it is a totally different character.

The new mini is based on the unproduced screenplay for the proposed Kevin Smith written-directed film from several years ago.

Interesting note: the promos for the project emphasize that the story and art for the are completed.

This is due to Smith's tendency to take on comics projects and then delay them interminably, if not complete them at all. (To his credit, Smith has gotten better at meeting deadlines.)

The interor art is by Johnathan Lau who's already done some impressive work for other Dynamite titles.
And, Dynamite is pushing hard on this high-profile title, making a variant of issue #1 their contribution to Free Comic Book Day 2010 !
I'm looking forward to it...I hope you are, too!

And, in case you've forgotten, we offer some kool kollectibles featuring the tv version of the heroes, with more goodies with imagery from the Golden Age comics and 1940s movie serials to come, just in time for the new comics and feature film!

Fantastic Femmes--Mary Lou Retton

OK, maybe not the most obvious Fantastic Femme, but Mary Lou Retton does have genre credits, even if it is as herself!

Genre credits include...

Scrooged (as herself playing Tiny Tim in a live tv production of A Christmas Carol)

Naked Gun 33 1/3 : the Final Insult (as herself)

Mary Lou's Flip Flop Shop (as herself)

Check out...

Encyclopedia Britannica's article about her!
US Olympic & ParaOlympic Museum's article about her!

Blank SketchBooks WERE $14.99...now ONLY $9.99!

Due to overwhelming response over the Christmas season, we've decided to reduce the price of our blank sketchbooks in every genre from $14.99 to ONLY $9.99!

They're great gifts for artists, writers, or pop culture collectors!

And now, they're an even better value!

So, ALL the sketchbooks / journals / logs are now reduced by 1/3!

Who says Atomic Kommie Comics™ doesn't give you bang for your buck?

Fantastic Femmes--Daniella Alonso

Note: this page has been updated with NEW info HERE!

Fantastic Femmes--Gina Torres now a regular on Vampire Diaries!

Gina's playing a bartender / witch named Bree on Vampire Diaries starting this month!

(As if I needed an excuse to run more pix of gorgeous Gina!)

Fantastic Femmes PixPost; Jessica Marie Alba: the Sequel