Keif Llama

  KEIF LLAMA
Communications between alien species is easy; understanding is the hard part.  The ability to think like another species is a rare  and galactically valuable gift. Those who are capable of it are called “xenotechs”. KEIF LLAMA is a young girl xenotech who works for the galactic government. 

KEIF LLAMA: XENOTECH by HOWARTH (36pp/6.5x10.25)
Volume One

KEIF LLAMA: GAS WAR...3.00
All new oneshot comic by HOWARTH with Keif struggling to save two alien
species from civil war on a gas giant. (36pp/6.5x10.25) Reserve

PARTICLE DREAMS by HOWARTH (Before Keif got her own series, her other
adventures appeared in this science fiction comics magazine. (36pp/8.5x11)

KEIF LLAMA: PARTICLE DREAMS collection
Welcome to the future. Humans deal on a daily basis with hundreds of alien races. What happens when their reactions are a little too...alien? You call in a xenotech, a specialist in intuiting alien motivations and solving problems. Someone who can get the job done. Someone like Keif Llama.
Collects all the Keif material from the “Particle Dreams” series, including a few stray pieces from other pubs--and features a previously unpublished Keif strip.
96 pages with new color cover by Matt Howarth
All ages.
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ANYTHING GOES 6...4.00
Fantagraphics anthology comic contains a 4 page Keif strip by HOWARTH not found anywhere else.  Reserve

THE DOOMSDAY SQUAD 7...4.00
Fantagraphics comic reprinted John Byrne’s “Doomsday+1” series.  Issue contains a 7 page full color Keif strip by HOWARTH.  Reserve

KEIF LLAMA: ASTRAY
Thousands of Confed technicians have been assigned the task of deciphering the technology involved in an organic Faster-Than-Light spacecraft, and Keif is honored to be among those ranks. The honor doesn t seem so wonderful, though, when the FTL beast escapes with Keif inside it. Add an intrusive team of investigative reporters to the problem, and Keif has her hands full figuring a way to coerce the beast to stop its mad rush to the ends of the galaxy.

Digital 108 page color graphic novel
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KEIF LLAMA: XENOTECH V2.1
Keif Llama never gets the simple assignments. How do a librarian the size of a continent, x-ray emitting structures that may or may not be alive, and a missing eleventh moon add up? And can Keif figure it all out before she's convicted of either sacrilege or incompetence?
32 pages with color cover by Matt Howarth
All ages.
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KEIF LLAMA: XENOTECH V2.2
Keif Llama is an expert at deciphering the indescribable. Then why can't she get a handle on the aliens who've secreted a mysterious structure inside an asteroid ConFed wants to terraform? A curious glowing pyramid is at the center of the structure... and of the mystery.
32 pages with color cover by Matt Howarth
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	KEIF LLAMA: MINDSET A graphic novel by Matt Howarth. Keif's vacation is interrupted when she's assigned to track down her guardian's murderer. But her guardian is still alive...or is he really? Nothing is as it seems as Keif becomes a pawn in a convoluted conspiracy to overthrow the galactic government. Will she survive to figure out what is going on? Digital 97 page full color graphic novel (135Megs) 10.00 download Buy it through $10.00 Order on CD PDF requires Adobe Acrobat 7
	KEIF LLAMA: IN MIND ONLY A graphic novel by Matt Howarth. This version of "Mindset" was done back in the 1970s and has remained unpublished until now. Includes the original unpublished version of "Shark Hunt", the very first Keif story. Featuring vintage artwork by Howarth, this edition is a compendium for avid fans who wish to see the original storyline. Digital 72 page 8.5x11 B&W graphic novel (131Megs) 8.00 download Buy it through $8.00 Order on CD PDF requires Adobe Acrobat 7

KEIF LLAMA: BACKFIRE
The new graphic novel by MATT HOWARTH
Join the plucky xenotech as she takes a trainee out to handle a simple trespassing problem on Pohler. Complicating matters: a reclusive jazz musician who's gone into hiding to compose his master opus. Things get perilous when interstellar terrorists are discovered. Their weapon of mass hysteria has gone rogue and is running the show. Can Keif survive capture and turn the tables on the villainous weapon?
Digital 120 page full color graphic novel
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KEIF LLAMA: RIPTIDE
Alien species are all riled up about an unwanted power station, but before she can solve this political dispute Keif has to babysit a group of visiting bathing suit models. Join the plucky xenotech as she gets lured to the bottom of a green ocean to investigate an illegal genetics lab hidden in the ancient Rhuford Ruins.
Digital 110 page color graphic novel
The CDR contains Low-Rez (for easy load-time) and High-Rez (for quality print-out) versions of the entire graphic novel.
PDF requires Adobe Acrobat 7
Only available in digital format.
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KEIF LLAMA: XENOTECH
Digital Keif Llama comics - Adobe PDF format, available for immediate download, exclusively through PayPal

 The Original Six-Issue Comicbook Series is now a Nine-Issue Series of Graphic E-books! With 3 never-before published issues!

 In a galaxy overcrowded with alien civilizations (some of them so different that communication between them is highly problematic), three things are required for these civilizations to productively interact:

A Faster-Than-Light propulsion drive--you'd be surprised how many of these there are.

An all-purpose translation device--which was achieved nearly a century ago with the development of the Beal Vocoder Unit (popularly known as a xenocoder). This device not only modulates sound waves, but handles a full range of sensory modes (light, olfactory, subsonic vibrations, magnetic and gravitic pulses, and new models even feature quantum motion sensors).

 The ability to comprehend the thought process of wildly exotic alien species. This is the most important thing of all. Communication is easy; understanding is hard. (How can a human really understand the urge to spin that is experienced in the third session by the Nirrur slimemold that grows on the fusionballs of Frolix 8?) The ability to think like other species is a rare and galactically valuable gift. Those who are capable of this are called xenotechs.

Keif Llama is a young girl xenotech. She works for Confed, the galactic government. Her assignments are exotic, bewildering, and often frustrating, for Keif's employers do not always agree with her altruistic solutions.

 These digital editions include new text pages, giving author's insights into the stories.

ISSUE 1 - "Ambitious"

Keif gets lured into a freelance job while she should be on vacation. A galactic cartel wants her to solve a commercial dispute with the aquatic Wahn, and they are not pleased with her startling solution.

 Suitable for all ages.

35 pages.Black & White interior, with full color cover by Matt Howarth.
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ISSUE 2 - "Eyewitness and Document"

Keif has the unpleasant pleasure of chaperoning a group of aliens kids. This picnic explodes when a killing machine tries to assassinate one of the children. Can Keif save her young charges and herself too?

 Suitable for all ages.

33 pages.
Black & White interior, with full color cover by Matt Howarth.
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ISSUE 3 - "The Thorn beneath the Rose"

Keif gets stuck doing guard duty for an interstellar traveling flower show. It's pretty boring duty...until there's a break-in that adds a flower to the exhibit instead of stealing one.

Print version of this issue has been long out-of-print, now it's finally available to all!

Suitable for all ages.

34 pages.
Black & White interior, with full color cover by Matt Howarth.
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ISSUE 4 - "Murder on the O'Brien Express"

Keif gets dispatched to the frontier. She travels on a luxury spaceliner. But while she's distracting herself with an onboard romance, catastrophe strikes. Can Keif figure out what happened before it happens again?

Suitable for all ages.

34 pages.
Black & White interior, with full color cover by Matt Howarth.
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ISSUE 5 - "Down and Out There"

The joy of Keif's frontier duty turns sour when she's assigned to Web-Base Edison-Blue, where everyone's being to taxed to death--quite literally. Things get desperate when Keif finds herself technically unemployed and unable to pay her air tax.

Suitable for all ages.

33 pages.
Black & White interior, with full color cover by Matt Howarth.
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ISSUE 6 - "Relic"

Keif is assigned to ferry some interstellar freight--straight into a cosmic storm! Her malfunctioning ship strands her in a space sargasso. As if that's not bad enough, now she's being stalking by an ancient battle suit that's running on automatic and wants to kill her.

Suitable for all ages.

34 pages
Black & White interior, with full color cover by Matt Howarth.
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New issues of KEIF LLAMA: XENOTECH--never before published!

Three issues that pursue the goal of getting poor Keif unstranded from remote intergalactic regions and returning her to civilized space. That's right--everyone assumed Keif escaped that space sargasso at the end of Issue 6--but she didn't! Her road home proves to be an adventure full of incredible surprises--incredible even for a young xenotech who doesn't surprise easily.

These 3 issues are only available in digital editions.

ISSUE 7 - "Deux Ex Machina"

Keif is still stranded in that space sargasso--until she gets "rescued" by intergalactic slave traders!

Suitable for all ages.

33 pages.
Black & White interior, with full color cover by Matt Howarth.
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ISSUE 8 - "The Commodity Trap"

Sold into slavery, Keif must keep her wits about her to survive the secret schemes of her new employer: Dr Delerius, the quantum scientist. Is he insane or just a misunderstood genius?

Suitable for all ages.

32 pages.
Black & White interior, with full color cover by Matt Howarth.
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ISSUE 9 - "Tightrope Fall"

Keif escapes the clutches of Dr Delerius, only to drop out of the sky on an alien planet where the local inhabitants act as if life is a stage drama.

Suitable for all ages.

33 pages
Black & White interior, with full color cover by Matt Howarth.
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SPECIAL
All 9 issues of KEIF LLAMA: XENOTECH together on one CD...Only $20.00  Order 

KONNY & CZU

KONNY & CZU are a pair of extraterrestrial con artists who roam the galaxy in search of a quick buck. For a number of years HOWARTH and D.M.KISTER did a running KONNY & CZU series for Albedo. Later, these strips were collected together in the KONNY & CZU comic along with new material.  There are no humans or anything remotely terrestrial in the Konny & Czu strips.

KONNY & CZU (32pp/6.5x10.25)

ALBEDO (36pp/6.5x10.25)

ALBEDO (Color comic contains Konny & Czu strips not found elsewhere, 36pp/6.5x10.25)
1, 3...3.50 each  Reserve #1  Reserve #3

MAD EMPRESS
Science fiction tales about a universe where entropy battles for supremacy.
(Some Mad Empress stories can be found in PARTICLE DREAMS issues.)

AFTERNOON IN THE SUN...50¢
Before you can go in search of the Wondrous Possession, you must first survive the Black Hole. HOWARTH’s first graphic novel from 1976, (24pp/5.5x8.5)  Reserve

FIX...3.00
What happens when the galactic city of Phoo becomes a fixed point in the universe? Comic book reprint of two classic mini-comics by HOWARTH. 
(32pp/6.5x10.25)  Reserve

SCAN 1, 2...3.50 each
The Mad Empress’ Empire visits a curious sandworld full of anomalies in this 2 issue series by HOWARTH. (36pp/6.5x10.25)  Reserve #1  Reserve #2

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UNDER THE SKIN
A science fiction novella by Matt Howarth
The Earth is at war with space creatures who are bombing the planet with giant corpses of their kind. The latest flesh bomb has fallen on Rotterdam, crushing the city under a massive mound of rotting space flesh. A secret military mission has been dispatched to recover an important data file from the buried city, and in order to get it, the commando team need to burrow through the corpse to locate the city. Hampered by adverse conditions and local politics, will they succeed?

A total of 67 pages, includes full color cover.
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TUNERS

Afterburn is a pirate radio station struggling to entertain and reunite the post-holocaust human survivors in a savage wasteland full of mutants and crazies. When a Quiet Man attack wipes out their Tribe, a group of orphaned youths embark on a pilgrimage in search of the elusive pirate radio station. Along the way they will encounter a mysterious prairie traveler and his opinionated two-headed cat...and adventure, monsters, romance, and deadly threats.

TUNERS is intended for mature audiences.

TUNERS is 226 pages long (or roughly 98,000 words, depending on how you want to consider it). This novel includes a bonus file: a single piece of B&W art by Howarth, featuring portraits of the tale's main characters.  

A total of 226 pages.
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BEYOND MEAT TIME

Nillers is a deceased hacker who has cheated death as an On-Line Personality in a future cyberpunk society. He becomes embroiled in a high-action intrigue that takes him across the globe and into space. All of his attempts to elude involvement plunge Nillers deeper in a cyberspace crisis that threatens to herald the destruction of mankind.

BEYOND MEAT TIME is intended for mature audiences.

BEYOND MEAT TIME is 218 pages long (or roughly 55,000 words, depending on how you want to consider it). This novel includes 8 B&W chapter heading illustrations and 3 more B&W illustrations by Howarth located throughout the text.

A total of 218 pages.
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