CHANNEL 10 BREAKING NEWS: FIFTEEN YEAR OLD KIDS BECOME INTERGALACTIC TRAVELERS: ALL THOSE ON THE RUSSELL SPACE CRAFT LAUNCHED LAST WEEK SAFE. NASA RESEARCHING. One is ingenious kid astronaut Gillie Miller, one is ardent space liker Nara Kagome, and the boy, Taro Akachi, says he was a little drunk.

Screen burn: "Where a permanent mark is burnt into the mask of the TV screen due to prolonged display." If Jake's life is a TV show, the set that plays it is afflicted with screen burn, forever displaying his character in a frozen state, unable to change. He is the nice guy who always finishes last. He is stuck being the boring, straight, white male. Mateo is a bisexual, biracial troublemaker and everything that a girl wants. Jake aims to rewrite his character to win the girl of his dreams, and Mateo is going to help him (willingly or not). #45 in Humor. [Cover by: redblacklady]

"AN ANECDOTE is a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature. Late 17th century: from French, or via modern Latin from Greek "anekdota", meaning 'things unpublished'." Collection of short stories that is added to on a horrifically infrequent basis.

WHAT IT TAKES TO RESCUE THE PLANET: one very potent unseeing sorcerer, one botanist doubling as a syndicate branch affiliate, one particularly curious, fair human sidekick, and a knack for magical ass kicking.