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After the death of her father in 1983, Sara Erie vowed to embark on a life-long journey to discover the causes of the disaster inside the National Supercollider Project. Now, after twenty years of coping with painful memories, Sara’s opportunity has arrived.

Two stories. Two creative teams. Two covers. One dynamic preview issue.

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Two stories. Two creative teams. Two covers. One dynamic preview issue.

Created exclusively for San Diego Comic-Con International 2003, the Captain Gravity/PARA Preview Issue is now available for the first time to all readers. Featuring character and concept sketches, preliminary page layouts, two beautiful covers by animator/penciler Ryan Woodward (Spiderman 2: The Movie, The Iron Giant, The Invincible Ed) and Hollywood concept illustrator Stephan Martiníere (Battlefield Earth, The Time Machine, Red Planet), and a flip-book format, this issue gives fans a sneak peek of upcoming titles Captain Gravity and PARA.

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Since the death of her father in 1983, Sara Erie has embarked on a life-long journey to discover the causes of the massive disaster inside the National Super Collider Project that killed her father, Dr. William Erie, and several of the most gifted nuclear physicists in the nation.

Now, after twenty years of coping with painful memories and an overwhelming sense of loss, Sara convinces her father’s best friend, nuclear physicist, Dr. Jonas Andersen, to allow her to accompany a research team into the abandoned super collider to discover what went wrong.

What Sara finds surpasses all the rules of physics and launches the team into a terrifying voyage through a world haunted with both real and imagined evils.

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Sara’s encounter with a terrifying creature deepens her resolve to discover what happened to her father, and her determination is met with hostility. But despite Agent Sanchez’s efforts to bar her from the research team, Sara’s determination drives her back into the supercollider where a fateful event threatens her future happiness. The second thrilling issue of Stuart Moore’s PARA is not to be missed.

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Continuing the high-tech paranormal thriller by Stuart Moore and Pablo Villalobos! Deep in the bowels of the world's largest particle accelerator, Sara Erie and the investigating team finally come face-to-face with the alien life form that's already killed two of their friends. But it's eccentric UFO expert Doctor Z whose own "close encounter" may prove the key to the mystery.

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Penny-Farthing's high-tech thriller explodes with revelations! What catastrophic accident really hit the Supercollider particle accelerator, twenty years ago? What deal did the U.S. government strike with the devil? And just who are those darn aliens, anyway? Sara Erie will learn the answers if she can survive her first trip to another world!

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First, learn the true history of the universe–and then see how it might end! Deep in the bowels of the Supercollider, Sara Erie and her team finally learn the real nature of their enemy. But can they save two worlds from annihilation? The high-tech sci-fi thriller continues!

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High-tech meets sci-fi in the explosive conclusion to this thrilling miniseries! To save the world, Sara Erie must run a twenty-eight mile gauntlet of unknown machinery and radioactivity in record time. But that's only the warm-up for a fierce battle in the Para-World and the end of Sara's quest to find her father!

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Deep beneath the heart of Texas it lies: the Supercollider, the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator. But a horrific disaster in the mid-‘80s left it highly radioactive, killing everyone including the project’s head scientist, Dr. William Erie. Now, twenty years later, Sara Erie -- the doctor’s daughter -- is determined to find out the real story.

Compiled for the first time into graphic novel form, Penny-Farthing Press’s popular science-fiction title, Stuart Moore’s Para™, will be available for purchase in late 2005.

The graphic novel features:

• A new cover by award-winning artist Stephan Martiniére

• A new short story by Stuart Moore

• Supercollider schematics by Langdon Foss

• Issues 1–6 of the original Stuart Moore’s Para™ mini-series

David LeBlanc reviews Stuart Moore's PARA TPB	Full Story
"Like all the comics from Penny Farthing Press you can expect the best production values in every aspect. The art is flawless page to page."

Paul Dale Roberts reviews Stuart Moore's PARA TPB	Full Story
Discovering a new story like Para is like finding buried treasure, the more you dig into the story, you get fistful of dobloons and jewels that fall into your lap! Para is a must read!

Ray Tate reviews PARA #6	Full Story
Ray Tate of Silver Bullet Comics rates PARA #6 a "perfect" 5 bullets (Para is one of those rare comic books that did not need to be a comic book. Para could have been a science fiction novel.)

David LeBlanc reviews PARA 4 and 5	Full Story
David LeBlanc posts rave reviews for PARA #4 and 5 on digitalwebbing.com "...Like all the comics from Penny Farthing Press you can expect the best production values in every aspect. The art is flawless page to page."

Ray Tate reviews PARA #5	Full Story
Ray Tate of Silver Bullet Comics rates PARA #5 a "perfect" 5 bullets (Para continues to surprise and delight, and though we appear to be nearing the end of the tale. It does not seem to be running out of steam any time soon.)

Ray Tate reviews PARA #4	Full Story
Ray Tate of Silver Bullet Comics rates PARA #4, 4 out of 5 bullets "One thing that is obvious is that part of Para's success lies in the accomplished artwork. The characters look realistic and move naturally through a strongly realized set based on a little something that more authors should invest in: research."

Craig Johnson reviews PARA #3	Full Story
Craig Johnson of Silver Bullet Comics rates PARA #3, 4 out of 5 bullets (...it’s a gorgeous book, coupled with a real sense of menace a few pages from the end, and you really couldn’t ask for better in that department.)

David LeBlanc reviews PARA #2	Full Story
David LeBlanc posts rave reviews for PARA #2 on digitalwebbing.com "...Everything down to the colors and letters is fine tuned and Pablo's pencils are terrific. I have yet to see a bad comic from PFP and this one is among the best."

Randy Lander reviews PARA #1	Full Story
Randy Lander posts rave reviews for PARA #1 on TheFourthRail.com. (As with many of Penny-Farthing's books, Para looks gorgeous.)

PARA Creative Team Announced	Full Story
Penny-Farthing Press recently announced the creative team for the upcoming series PARA, a sci-fi creation by Eisner Award-winning editor Stuart Moore (Lone, Zendra).