Tales from the Ragged Edge

“A Newer Shade of Blue” by Michaela Hutfles – Pre-Colombian Period

“I Blame Management” by S. Aarron Kemp – 1587

Cobalt City founded – 1723

First Appearance of The Huntsman – 1775

“Daddy’s Little Girl” by Dawn Vogel – 1890

Simon Floyd murdered and reanimated – 1931

“Girl’s Night Out” by Jeremy Zimmerman – 1935

“Claws of the Dragon Queen” by Rosemary Jones – 1949

“The War at Home” by Nathan Crowder – 1976

Mysterious Five Founded – 2003

Icons leave for space, leaving The Keep vacant – 2003

Extra-Dimensional Breach invasion stopped at Lafayette Park – 2004

The Protectorate founded to replace Icons – 2004

Chanson Noir - The Protectorate, with the help of Doctor Shadow, battle the Queen of the Black Sigh across multiple universes. – 2004

“Old Root from a Sinister Vine” by Nathan Crowder 2004

“Masks: A Gato Loco Story” by Nathan Crowder – 2004

“Nutcracker” by Angel Leigh McCoy – 2004

“Vengeance on the Layover” by Erik Scott de Bie – 2005

Cobalt City Blues - Senior members of The Protectorate are swapped with their evil duplicates from a mirror universe, leaving the defense of Cobalt City in the hands of junior members and reserve.  Meanwhile, the exiled Protectorate have to reunite on a hostile world and find their way home before time runs out. – 2005

“Hollow Offerings” by Nathan Crowder – 2005

“A Very Panda Christmas, Everyone!” by Rosemary Jones – 2005

“Silent Nights” by Nathan Crowder – 2006

“Home for Christmas” by Nicole Burns – 2006

Requiem of Ash – The Protectorate face their doom as they discover their most dangerous adversary may be one of their own.  When the dust settles, win or lose, The Protectorate will be no more! – 2007

Greetings From Buena Rosa - Snowflake, the hyper-evolved panda mechanic, helps Manuel de la Vega try to save his  cousin from a murder charge in a Mexican factory town.  But the evil and corruption runs deeper than either hero expected, forcing the now crippled vigilante Gato Loco to come out of retirement. – 2008

Ride Like the Devil – Once a year, thirty racers gather from all over the world to compete in an illegal cycle race from Mexico to Canada. Big money and bigger bragging rights go to the winner of the Devil’s Run International. Some would do anything to win — even murder.  It falls to Manuel de la Vega and his vigilante alter ego Gato Loco to find this murderer among madmen. Or his friend Xander Tesla might be the next victim. – 2008

“Ghost of Christmas Past” by Jeremy Zimmerman – 2008