Blatant Comics is an independent American

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publisher founded in 1997 by Chris Crosby with Randy Faucheux III and John Waupsh III (who later left to pursue other exploits). Blatant is known for publishing parody comic books such as ''Sloth Park'', ''XXXena: Warrior Pornstar'', and ''Dead Sonja: She-Zombie with a Sword'', and humor comics like ''+EV'' and ''Impeach Bush!''. On May 5, 2007, as part of

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, Blatant ventured into less humorous subject matter with a straight horror comic called '' Last Blood''. Blatant's titles are distributed to comic book stores by Diamond Comic Distributors. Back issues are available through

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List of Blatant Comics titles

* ''+EV'' (2006, collection of the poker comic strip) * ''Anger Grrrl'' (1999, parody of '' Danger Girl'') * ''Busty The Vampire Murderer'' (1998, parody of '' Buffy The Vampire Slayer'') * ''Dead Sonja: She Zombie with a Sword'' (2006, parody of ''

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'') * ''The EboniX-Files/The Ungrammatical EboniX-Men'' (1998 flipbook, parodies of ''

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'' and ''

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'') * ''Gen 113'' (1998, parody of ''

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'') * ''Impeach Bush!'' (2006, political graphic novel) * '' Last Blood'' (2007, zombie/vampire horror comic) * ''Phathom'' (1999, parody of '' Fathom'') * ''Sloth Park'' (1998, two issues, parody of '' South Park'') * ''When Beanies Attack'' (1999, parody of

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toys) * ''XXXena: Warrior Pornstar'' (1997–1999, five issues, parody of '' Xena: Warrior Princess'') * '' Marry Me'' (2007-June 2008, romantic comedy - 1 paperback issue so far. A graphic novel was released in July 2008.)

Sales

* According to the Diamond Comic Distributors Top 300 charts Blatant's highest selling title to date is ''Sloth Park #1'' (1998), which ranked #232 with estimated sales of 5,000 copies. * The 2007

issue ''Last Blood #1'' had a circulation of "about 20,000 copies."

Reviews

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reviewed ''Dead Sonja'' and ''Impeach Bush''. * Salon.com reviewed ''Last Blood #1''.Steal this comic , Salon Books

References

External links

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