Stray Bullets (comics)
| Stray Bullets | |
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Cover to Stray Bullets #1 (1995). Art by David Lapham.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | El Capitan Books, Image Comics |
| Schedule | Irregular |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | March 1995 – present |
| No. of issues | 41 - Original, 8 - Killers, 28 - Sunshine & Roses |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | David Lapham |
| Written by | David Lapham |
| Artist(s) | David Lapham |
| Letterer(s) | David Lapham |
| Editor(s) | Deborah Purcell |
| Collected editions | |
| Innocence of Nihilism | ISBN |
| Somewhere Out West | ISBN |
| Other People | ISBN |
| Dark Days | ISBN |
| Hi-Jinks and Derring-Do | ISBN |
| Killers | ISBN |
Stray Bullets is an independent American comic book series published in black and white (with color covers) by El Capitan Books. It is written and drawn by David Lapham.
The story deals with the often criminal and sometimes tragic misadventures of a large cast of characters and takes place from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s.
The first issue was published in 1995 and followed an irregular publishing schedule through its fortieth issue, which was published in 2005. In a 2007 interview with Michael Lorah for the Newsarama website, Lapham revealed that the series, including the final issue of the current story arc, is on hold indefinitely:
DAVID LAPHAM : It kills me to put Stray Bullets on hold like it's been. Maria and I both put a lot of years and a lot of hard work into the company and the book. And I still have one issue left in the current arc, left dangling. But the reality the last few years has been that it's faster and pays more to work freelance right now. The reality is I have a family and I can't just say stop everything and let's do Stray Bullets for love. I do love Bullets and know I will complete it, and the sooner the better, but I just can't commit to anything firm.
In 2009, a new ten-page story titled, Stray Bullets: Open the Goddamn Box appeared in Noir: A Collection of Crime Comics, an anthology book published by Dark Horse Comics.
In March 2014, Image Comics ended the hiatus of Stray Bullets with the publication of the final issue of the HiJinks and Derring-Do arc, and the simultaneous launch of a new arc entitled Killers. A giant-sized softcover trade paperback edition (The Uber Alles Edition) collecting all forty-one issues of the original series was also released by Image Comics.Killers ran for 8 issues throughout 2014, then after a brief hiatus, Lapham returned in early 2015 with Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses. Lapham plans to continue publishing Stray Bullets in this fashion at Image, with each arc treated as a discrete miniseries.
There has been an assortment of volumes reprinting the original comic books.
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