a post rapture
graphic novel

Written by Jim Munroe
Drawn by me! Salgood Sam

What if the religious right... are actually right?

Without warning, multitudes of Christians float bodily up into the sky. For the immoral majority, life goes on pretty much as usual.Except that after the Rapture, magic works -- for those willing to risk demonic mutations.

And an angelic army appears to have been deployed to mop up the sinners.

But through it all, outsiders Raven and Mummy face the possibility of a bigger problem than the end of the world: the end of their relationship.

Critically acclaimed and poplar with readers, Therefore Repent! is an unconventional apocalyptic page turner.

Praise for Therefore Repent!

"Therefore Repent! is great. Loved the conflict between the old and new religions, plus it's got Jesus and mutants." -- Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned

"Therefore Repent! is impressive, layered, and in places surprisingly funny. I didn't think it would be my sort of thing, but I enjoyed it." --Jim Ottaviani, author of FALLOUT: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb

"Now, just dealing with the Rapture might be enough of a hook, but Jim and Salgood do a great job of characterization from the very beginning. The two protagonists are so interesting that I had to keep turning page after page to see what and who they were. And yes, Salgood can draw like nobody's business... I give this book two thumbs up." --Chris Pitzer, AdHouse Books

"The tale's offbeat anarchy and peculiar, parodic charms will win you over. It's like one of those church pamphlets about salvation gone terribly, terribly wrong." --John Burns, The Georgia Straight

"Therefore Repent! is an absolutely boundless piece of fantasy that he wisely grounds in very human relationships... to say it's an imaginative work would be an understatement: 'unhinged' is probably more accurate. I can't wait for more."-- Robert J. Wierseman, Quill & Quire

"The art is extraordinarily fluid and the storyline ingenious and sharply intelligent." --Jeff VanderMeer, Realms of Fantasy

"It's completely nuts... It's a book about what if the Rapture actually happened, and that's all I'm gonna tell you." --Junot Diaz, 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction

Joe Shuster Award Nominee for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer 2008

More press and reviews.

Available now in stores,

Amazon, Chapters/Indigo & more.

And via the publishers,

NMK & IDW

FREE DIGITAL COPY: If you want to preview Therefore Repent! it's available for download via the NMK site here along with info about the squeal, Sword of My Mouth.

& now it can be read or downloaded @ archive.org!; The long time web geek that i am, that's pretty cool. Nice streaming reader interface too. Enjoy, if you like it please consider buying the paperback for a friend or you're own shelf; or subscribing for Sword of My Mouth. :) It's a pretty cheap damned good read and worth the $. +++

Update: A lot of shops returned surplus stock when the rescission started in late '08. I've heard from some readers that it was a little hard to find our book, If you haven't seen it locally try and ask your retailer about ordering you a copy or two of Therefore Repent! for their shop. 

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Ted at IDW just sent us some scans of Best American Comics 2008, where Therefore Repent was listed as one of the "Notable" books to read of 2007!

Pretty cool, I'll have to pick up a copy - looks like it's worth it anyway, some impressive names in it. :)

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So i heard this song recently - Dogs by Michelle Breslin! - i've been planing to do a trailer for Therefore Repent! for a while and this song just fit so perfectly.

You can download the original file here. Quality : 45.0 MB WMV file.

For more of Michelle and her music, check out this site, this one, and this one.

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Damn it's Damn sweaty. I tell you, I have a beautiful lady with me and we can even stand to touch each other in this - that's just wrong.

So big news! A little while ago the first quarter update for the IDW edition came in the mail, and I'm very pleased to say we had a very respectable first go at the plate - with book and direct markets combined; the book market pulling over twice the numbers; Therefore Repent! has moved 3216 copies! Add to that NMK's 1000 so far, and you get 4216 post-apocalyptic graphic novels, ha ha ha!

Cool. As I have been reminded, the book market orders can boomerang on you, but in a lot of the shops that had it that I've been in, it seems to be moving pretty good so I'm optimistic about that.

Also was talking to a Literary agent recently when I mentioned this, and he thought there was a good chance 4000 was an ideal middle number - not so many that sending them back in most store's cases would be worth it - a lot of single units left over not worth the hassle - and still big enough to result in us getting a decent first royalty check.

At any rate they hold back half our checks right now in case they do come back, and even with that I'm pretty pleased.


So, hey, if you have been thinking about getting it, well I'd sure love to see those numbers stay hi so don't hesitate on our behalf ;)

If you want to get one signed by Jim you can order from NMK here, & IDW makes it available on their site too.

I have a list of shops I know carry it here, and it seems to be in most of the mega book shops i've checked out. And most of the web based book retailers like Amazon carry it too.

But hey, if you want to help us a bit, look for shops that don't carry it, and ask them about it! Tell them Junot Diaz thinks we're nuts and loved it, that'll get their attention. ;)

Read the press.
Buy the book.

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Got a note about this just before leaving for NY, which was cool; when i told folks like the literary agent i talked to at the con that a Pulitzer Prize winner name dropped my last project they tended to take notice. So yeah, Junot Diaz was interviewed by THIS RECORDING April 10th, and when asked about what he's reading lately this is what he said...

In terms of genre fiction, are you getting to do any reading for pleasure?

I've have been reading tremendously. I'm sort of recovering from book-novel-whatever... right now, I'm reading this book called THEREFORE REPENT! (Laughs)

Does it have an exclamation mark at the end?

YES! YES!

What's it about?

It's completely nuts. Of course you haven't heard of it. It's by a guy named Jim Monroe and it's put out by a small press. It's a book about what if the rapture actually happened, and that's all I'm gonna tell you.

Cool. Much thanks to Junot! So I'm going to have to go find some of his work and have a look, I'm told he's an amazing author, as the Pulitzer would tend to suggest.

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Ok, so you've heard about the book, and you want a copy for yourself.

If you want to support your LCS, and get it from a brick and mortar shop, here's a spring of 08' list of shops that ordered it. If your local shop is not stocking it the Diamond catalog number was # NOV073660.

Online:
You can get it directly from Jim Munroe via NMK here on his site, and that way you'll get your copy complete with his signature!

Order the US edition direct from the IDW site here.

Amazon.com, Chapters.Indigo, and other sites cary it, just search the title.

ISBN's are 1600101461 for the IDW us edition,
and 0968636349 for the NMK can edition.

Hope that helps and let me know what you think of the book when your done!

cheers - Max

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It's in this November Previews!
published by IDW in the US.
Diamond # NOV073660


Very important info;
There was an error in the listing,

the cover price will be $14.99 us, Cheep!

not $24.99!

Here's the info off of the IDW site

Therefore, Repent!

Jim Munroe (w)
Salgood Sam (a)

What if the religious right... are right?

Therefore Repent! is a graphic novel set in a Chicago neighborhood after the Rapture. Once the Christians have floated bodily into the sky, life goes on pretty much as usual for the immoral majority... except that magic works, if you're willing to risk demonic mutations. CNN reports that Mr. Christ and Mr. Bush are on a speaking tour of the red states. And an angelic army appears to have been deployed to mop up the sinners. But through it all, outsiders Raven and Mummy face the possibility of a bigger problem than the end of the world: the end of their relationship.

In the tradition of The Book of Revelations, Therefore Repent!, courtesy of novelist Jim Munroe (Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask) and acclaimed artist Salgood SamSea of Red) is a lurid, dark fantasy tale. By taking the apocryphal scripture as literal truth - as the American powers-that-be claim to do - the story also explores the political and spiritual ramifications of God abandoning humanity.

TPB-FC
6" x 8"
$14.99
160 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-60010-146-1

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Jonathan Ellis @ PopImage

"...the type of book that will have you flipping through it again and again."

"...sure to be one of this years highly regarded Original Graphic Novels."

Victor Schwartzman @ the Guild of Outsider Writers

"Unfortunately, I opened the book and looked at the first page....this is the damn problem with this damn book - you're screwed if you read the first page.... ....then have to read the second. And the third..."

"This is a novel about the magic within all of us, about what stops us from realizing we have that magic, and how we can find that magic again and use it."

Based on charicters established in his novel
An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil and set in Chicago, after the Rapture.

In the tradition of The Book of Revelations, Therefore Repent! is a dark fantasy tale, but Jim also says he's always been a fan of the kookier parts of the bible ;). Expect healthy doses of magic realism, some demons, taking animals, angels, mummies and ravens made of ash. You can real a preview of the book here on ComicSpace. And all the news posted on the blog about this book is here for your easy reading pleasure!

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This was done for Festival, the FCBD giveaway profiling creators participating in TACF this August. The books been out for a bit so i figured it was ok to post it now.

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