In the spirit of grindhouse, two female bounty hunters raised in a kung fu orphanage must navigate dangerous jobs on the streets of L.A. Money Talks! Val and Cassie are two women trying to make it in L.A...but instead of attending an elite university or acting studio, they are graduates of a kung fu orphanage who now make their living as Freelancers - solving unsolvable problems for a price. In a city where loyalty only runs as deep as one's bank account, Val and Cassie take the most dangerous gigs, and learn what sacrifices are necessary to make Hollywood dreams come true. Red-hot newcomers Eric Esquivel and Joshua Covey deliver a smash hit series full of raucous nights, beautiful dreamers, and heartbreak in-between trips to the newest food trucks. This volume features a bonus story by FREELANCERS creators Matt Gagnon (DAY MEN) and Felipe Smith (ALL-NEW GHOST RIDER)!

"Narrative and Culture" draws together fourteen essays in which leading scholars discuss narrative texts and practices in a variety of media and genres, subjecting them to sustained cultural analysis. The essays cross national borders and historical periods as often and as easily as they traverse disciplinary boundaries, and they examine canonical fiction as well as postmodern media--photography, film, television. The primary subject of these pieces, notes Janice Carlisle, is "the relation between the telling of tales and the engagement of their tellers and listeners in the practices of specific societies."
Contributors: Nina Auerbach, Thomas B. Byers, Jay Clayton, Marcel Cornis-Pope, Mary Lou Emery, Colleen Kennedy, Vera Mark, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Paul Morrison, Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey, John Carlos Rowe, Daniel R. Schwarz, Carol Siegel, Felipe Smith