BURLINGTON, VERMONT October 8, 2007 – Mike Luoma proudly announce the release of Issue Two of Panthea Obscura on October 17th, 2007!  Panthea Obscura is a four-issue comic book mini series created and written by Vermont’s Luoma and illustrated by Argentine artist Juan Carlos Quattordio. Panthea Obscura is published by Luoma through the revolutionary online print on demand provider [LINK: http://Lulu.com]
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Panthea Obscura tells the story of the old gods, now returned. The gods of ancient myth actually existed, still do exist, but they made humankind forget they were real over two thousand years ago. In issue #1, the gods revealed themselves to the modern world, once again let humankind remember they were real. In Issue Two the gods deal with some of the darker ramifications of their decision.

Led by The Deep, once known as Poseidon among other names, most of the gods act like heroes, but Troy, once believed to be the gods of War and Death, now lurks in his underworld palace and possesses human beings made newly vulnerable to him by the other gods’ revelation. The other gods are doing their best to try to stop those Troy possesses when they run amok, kill people, and mindlessly mouth Troy’s mantra, “Too Many Morons!”

Panthea Obscura will be available online at [LINK: http://stores.lulu.com/mikeluoma] http://stores.lulu.com/mikeluoma and locally at Earth Prime Comics in Burlington, Vermont.

Mike Luoma broke into comics with 2006’s critically acclaimed Holy Shit: Or Pat Robertson Is The Anti-Christ written, illustrated and published by Luoma. He’s the author of the science fiction adventure novels Vatican Assassin (2005) and Vatican Ambassador (2007), and is currently hard at work on the third novel of the trilogy. Luoma is also a long time radio personality in Burlington, Vermont. He’s currently the afternoon drive host on "The Point." His website, with links to reviews and writings: [LINK:
http://www.glowinthedarkradio.com/] www.glowinthedarkradio.com.

Juan Carlos Quattordio has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He got his start drawing comics for rock magazines, also working on Fierro for La Urracca publishing house in his native Argentina. Juan Carlos has worked on Pin 8, Vessel, Fated, and Robin: Sisterhood. He also teaches workshops on the art of graphic storytelling. His work can be seen at:  [LINK: http://jcquattordiocomicsandillustration.blogspot.com/]
http://jcquattordiocomicsandillustration.blogspot.com/