500 years after monsters wiped out the human race, a quiet calm has settled over the population of nightmare creatures that go bump in the night. They work their monster jobs, raise their monster families, tend to their monster homes, and generally enjoy the peace and prosperity of life without their sworn enemies, the human scourge, that so blighted the land for so many centuries. In fact, the only inhabitants of this new monster world that even still speak of human kind are the children who share hushed secret fairy tales about evil humans coming up from underneath their beds, pulling the...

While the Machines ravage humanity in a horrific, prolonged and violent genocide, the survivors of this nightmare apocalyptic world spend their short, violent lives hiding and running, doing their best to avoid the giant torture robots and man-sized retrieval units. That is, until they find Computerface, a man with an iPad grafted to his face. This bizarre disfigurement confuses the robot retrieval units, giving the human survivors an upper hand against the robots for the first time since their uprising. But will Computerface become the hero this decimated world needs, or will he remain the...

Welcome to Issue 2 of Broadswords and Blasters In this issue, you will find stories from our new favorite authors. You'll read about a Hawaiian hero fighting off sea demons, a hard-case detective and his sassy artificial intelligence friend, a stone-builder with serious ethical conundrums, an alien farmer and his strange crop, and the conclusion to Island of Skulls, the story of siblings in-over-their-heads that started in Issue 1. You'll also meet the retired, grizzled war veterans you see on the cover, a tough bounty hunter in a newly purloined dress, Spanish conquistadors who meet an...