''The Perhapanauts'' is an

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series created by writer Todd Dezago and artist Craig Rousseau in 2005. The first two

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, "First Blood" and "Second Chances", were published by

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, but later in 2008, the Perhapanauts comics were published by

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. The Image Comics series began with an annual in February

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, "Jersey Devil", followed by what may either be numerous then-upcoming mini-series or an ongoing series. The first series is "Triangle" taking the team into the

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, which started publication in April 2008.The Perhapanauts #1

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, April 16, 2008 Besides their own title, the Perhapanauts appeared in 2008's ''Image Monster Pile-Up'', a one-shot anthology comic that also featured

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, and Firebreather.

Plot

The story follows a team of

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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 whose

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powers include

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and

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; Big, a super-strong

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whose intelligence has been artificially evolved to genius level; Choopie, a feisty little

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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 teenage

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still getting used to being dead. Other characters in the series include Joann DeFile,

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turned BEDLAM's Resident Psychic Advisor and self-appointed "den mother"; Peter Hammerskold, a former Marine 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, a

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-winged Irish water-sprite with

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powers who is part of Red Team; and Karl, a lonely, goodhearted

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exiled by his fellow

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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 of nightmarish

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-inducing fear when he feels threatened. Although their recurring arch-foe is the large, vicious and incredibly ancient shapeshifter the

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who has proven extremely difficult to contain or destroy, Blue Team has also fought the

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, sharp-tongued Filipino

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the

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, 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.

Collected editions

The series have been collected into

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: * ''First Blood'' (128 pages, Dark Horse, September 2006, ) * ''Second Chances'' (128 pages, Dark Horse, June 2007, ) * ''Triangle'' (Image, 2009, ) * ''Dark Days'' (Image, 2010, ) * ''Treasure Obscura'' (Image, 2012, ) * ''Danger Down Under!'' (Image, 2014, ) A

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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 sufficient

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tier. It has since been made available for purchase through the store of the official Perhapanauts website.

Notes

References

External links

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Todd Dezago's "Perhapablog"
2005 comics debuts Dark Horse Comics titles Image Comics titles {{Image-Comics-stub

Plot

Collected editions

See also

Notes

References

External links