From one of the most popular project channels on YouTube comes a how-to book on building things that go boom. Grant Thompson, The King of Random, has created one of the most popular project channels on YouTube, featuring awesome videos such as How to Make a Laser Assisted Blowgun and Assassin's Micro Crossbow. He currently has almost 10 million subscribers, posts 5 times a week, and averages over 40 million views a month. Partnering with Grant is Ted Slampyak, the artist behind the #1 New York Times bestseller 100 Deadly Skills. 52 Random Weekend Projects: For Budding Inventors and Backyard Builders is a guide that enables ordinary folks to build an impressive arsenal of projects. These crafts combine some of Grant's most popular projects--Matchbox Rockets, Pocket Slingshot Super Shooters, Proto-Putty, Ninja Balls, Mini Matchstick Guns, The Clothespin Pocket Pistol--with many new ones, providing clear instructions on how to build them step-by-step. Broken down into Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced sections, 52 Random Weekend Projects is loaded with truly amazing projects, including: - Mousetrap Handgun - Mini Solar Scorcher - Air Vortex Canon - Air Mounted Skewer Shooter - Paracord Bullwhip - Bottle Cap Party Whistle - Ninja Stress Balls - Tablecloth Parachute - Skyblaster Slingshot And many more!

Meet Christian Savage, vampire hunter in the wildest backlands of the Wild West. Abandoned by his parents at birth and raised by a kindly priest, Savage tried hard to keep on the straight and narrow. But the temptations of the Dark Side proved too strong, and his sins cost him the life of his guardian and only friend, Father O'Toole. Now, with Father O'Toole's spirit to offer support and companionship, Savage roams the countryside ridding the frontier of the supernatural enemies of civilization, making the West safe for god-fearing people once again. Eventually his search for the leaders of this evil scourge brings him to the last two people he ever expected to meet... Also included in this volume is Bounties: The Candy Heiress. When a naive, sheltered young woman goes out West for adventure, she quickly finds more than she can handle It's up to bounty hunter Saddlebag Jones to help her out and get her home.

In 1920s Boston, famed Harvard archaeologist and adventurer Clifton Jennings has a secret sideline as a hunter of the supernatural and protector against unearthly threats. In The Flowers of San Pedro, when a fellow Secret Society member and colleague goes missing in Arizona, Jennings and his unlikely partner, Ace Mifflin, private eye, head out to find what became of him. With flapper Veronica Stone and botanist G.E. McMullin joining them, they soon encounter hostility from the locals and an apparent connection between the colleague's disappearance and the flowers that McMullin has been studying. What exactly are their strange powers, and are they worth killing for? In our second story, A Stranger in Bryn Mawr, while Jennings and Ace Mifflin settle their differences in a heated baseball game, young genius Nora Carlisle uncovers a mystery of her own at college. A rash of thefts and a mysterious figure go from merely baffling to outright dangerous. Why is Nora's friend Amy in the middle of it all? Chronicles, Volume Two continues the exploits of Jennings and Ace and their group of adventurers as they battle forces both human and not. This two-volume set reprints the entire original print run of Jazz Age Chronicles from the late 1980s and early '90s. This second volume has The Flowers of San Pedro, A Stranger in Bryn Mawr and a few extras. REVIEWS ..".a very good period private-eye story... an excellent mixture of the realistic and the fantastic... pick up a copy. Grade: A."-----Don Thompson, Comics Buyer's Guide "Jazz Age Chronicles is an extremely well-crafted detective series.... Jazz Age Chronicles' creator, Ted Slampyak, has filled his comic with references to the era. That's the sort of touch that I appreciate...----Cliff Biggers, Comic Shop News " Ted Slampyak's] backgrounds give a strong feeling of credibility to the plot. I really feel like the characters are in a city that exists. The story comes alive because of it...."----Gene Colan, Hall-of-Fame artist, Daredevil, Tomb of Dracula, Nathaniel Dusk.

Jazz Age, the comic was nominated for an Ignatz Award in the category "Outstanding Online Comic" in 2003 and named one of the best webcomics of 2004 by The Webcomics Examiner. Prior to the webcomic, Jazz Age Chronicles was released in printed format from EF Graphics and Caliber Comics. It's Boston in the 1920s. Famed Harvard archaeologist Clifton Jennings, international adventurer and discoverer of ancient treasures, has some adventures no one knows about. He's a member of a Secret Society, one that guards against supernatural threats and unscrupulous meddlers in the black arts. One such meddler is the Baroness Marlene Von Treska, with whom Jennings shares a history. In The Case of the Beguiling Baroness, when she is rumored to be in town, Jennings and his Secret Society hire seedy private eye Ace Mifflin to keep tabs on her whereabouts. And that's when their troubles really begin... In Vote Early & Often, the detective finds himself unwittingly in the spotlight when he publicly accuses the leading candidate for district attorney of a murder his friend is on trial for Will he get his friend out of jail, or just put himself in? Chronicles, Volume One follows the first adventures of Jennings and Ace and their adventure-seeking gang as they go up against threats both earthly and supernatural. This is the first of a two-volume set that reprints the entire original print run of Jazz Age Chronicles from the late 1980s and early '90s. REVIEWS ..".a very good period private-eye story... an excellent mixture of the realistic and the fantastic... pick up a copy. Grade: A."-----Don Thompson, Comics Buyer's Guide "Jazz Age Chronicles is an extremely well-crafted detective series.... Jazz Age Chronicles' creator, Ted Slampyak, has filled his comic with references to the era. That's the sort of touch that I appreciate...----Cliff Biggers, Comic Shop News " Ted Slampyak's] backgrounds give a strong feeling of credibility to the plot. I really feel like the characters are in a city that exists. The story comes alive because of it...."----Gene Colan, Hall-of-Fame artist, Daredevil, Tomb of Dracula, Nathaniel Dusk.