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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 15/07/2026

BATWOMAN #5 out today! Questions answered! Noses bloodied! Asses kicked, and not just physically! Art by the amazing DaNi, colors by the amazing @matthollingsworth.com, letters by the amazing Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou!

DaNi’s cover to Batwoman #5, colored by Matt Hollingsworth. The cover depicts what appears to be a POV shot from Batwoman, her hands reaching out in their red gloves, to either side of the cracked reflection in a mirror. The crack splits the reflection, bisecting Batwoman and Alice.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 20/04/2026

FOC for THE FORGED issue 10 is today! You can pre-order with Lunar Code: 0326IM0325. By @mercuryeric.bsky.social, @mikeshenderson.bsky.social, @nolanwoodard.bsky.social, @airy.bsky.social and myself, edited by @alejandrobot.com, published by @imagecomics.com!

The Eternal Empress, armored and regal, extends a hand over a glowing map of the galaxy, asserting her control, while a fleet of battleships float behind here against a starfield of rich green and blue. Screamer text reads:
WITNESS the many millennia of the Eternal Empress!
WEEP for the fate of a fallen friend!
WHOA! CrazyJo grows a CLAW!

Art by Mike Henderson, colors by Nolan Woodard; designed by Eric Trautmann. From Image Comics.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 26/03/2026

Hey! I'm signing at Gabi's Olympic Cards and Comics in Lacey, Washington on Saturday! And THEY TAKE PHONE ORDERS!!!

A skyline in black silhouette, with blue sky gradiating to black stars at the top, with text reading: Guest Signing, Greg Rucka, writer of BATWOMAN. March 28th, Noon - 4pm.

To pre-order signed copies, customers can email OlympicCardsandComics@gmail.com

Gabi's Olympic Cards & Comics, 4230 Pacific Ave, Lacey, WA 98503 - phone: 360-459-7221

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 20/03/2026

Signing for BATWOMAN #1 tomorrow, Saturday 21 March, at @cosmicmonkeycomics.bsky.social in Portland, noon to 2pm! I'll be the guy behind the table with all the Sharpies!

Cover image of Batwoman in red and black, surrounded by negative space skyline and a fluttering of bats. Art by DaNi, colors by Matt Hollingsworth. Text reads: Batwoman #1 with writer Greg Rucka, Saturday March 21st, noon - 2pm.

Portland Oregon's Cosmic Monkey Comics, 5335 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland, Oregon 97213, 503-517-9050, cosmicmonkeycomics.com

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 18/03/2026

Reminder that I'll be at @bwp-eug.bsky.social tomorrow - Wednesday - signing from 5:30 to 7:00pm!

A fairly out of date and honestly unflattering photograph of author Greg Rucka against DaNi's cover to BATWOMAN #1. Details for the signing read: Books with Pictures Eugene, 296 E. 5th Avenue, Suite 224, Second floor of the 5th Street Public Market. Website: linktr.ee/bwp_eug

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 12/03/2026

New BATWOMAN signing, 28 March at Gabi's Olympic Cards and Comics in Lacey, Washington! Wooooo!!!

Image of a city skyline advertising a signing at Gabi's Olympic Cards and Comics at 4230 Pacific Ave, in Lacey, Washington. Text: Guest Signing Greg Rucka, writer of Batwoman. March 28th, noon to 4pm. To pre-order signed copies, customers can email OlympicCardsandComics@gmail.com.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 10/03/2026

Day and date signing for Batwoman #1 in Eugene, Oregon, at Books With Pictures ( @bwp-eug.bsky.social )! Wednesday, March 18, from 5:30 until 7pm!

A very unflattering and old picture of me against the Batwoman #1 cover by DaNi and colored by Matt Hollingsworth. Details printed: Signing in store, Wed, Mar 18, 5:30 - 7:00. 296 E. 5th Ave, Suite 224 (Second floor of the 5th Street Public Market), linktr.ee/bwp.eug

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 10/03/2026

Portland! Batwoman #1 signing at Cosmic Monkey! Saturday, March 21st, from noon until 2pm! Weeeee!!!

Batwoman stands with cape billowing, bats fluttering around her. Art by DaNi, colors by Matt Hollingsworth. Signing information is printed: Saturday, March 21st, noon - 2pm, at Cosmic Monkey Comics, 5335 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97213; phone 503-517-9050

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 07/01/2026

Tomorrow! Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #6! Answering the question EVERYONE has been asking: Just how strong IS Featherweight? Art by @nicolascottart.bsky.social, colors by Annette Kwok, lettering by Troy Petreri, from @dc.com !

Solomon Grundy tries to take the VERY HEAVY and IMPRESSIVE LOOKING Power Bank from petite Featherweight, in her pink cat-eared hoodie, who is holding it one handed. Cheetah and Black Adam face each other in foreground.

In panel 2, Featherweight has opened her grip and Grundy is flying backwards, smashing into a tree. Cuz he's a big stupid dummy who should've known better.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 04/01/2026

So having listened to “Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan” for a fourth time straight through, I think it might be a masterpiece.

Album cover of The Mountain Goats album referenced, a matte black background, on the left half a vertical image of a fishing boat at sea, the coast visible past it; on the right, in white/tan lettering, the name of the band and beneath it the title of the album.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 24/12/2025

Out today, for those seeking last minute stocking stuffer type stuff, or just, yknow, have been waiting for the trade! Collecting LAZARUS: FALLEN 1-6! By @michaellark.bsky.social @airy.bsky.social @mercuryeric.bsky.social @richardhowe.bsky.social @alejandrobot.com and Santi Arcas.

Cover to the 8th Lazarus trade, depicting Forever Carlyle in black, holding her bloodstained sword, with a bullet wound in her forehead that she doesn’t seem to have noticed. Forever is depicted against a yellow-gold background. Credits read “Rucka, Lark, Arcas, Maher” across the top.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 03/12/2025

Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #5 is out tomorrow! WITNESS THE GLORY OF @nicolascottart.bsky.social and Annette Kwok and Troy Peteri! Variants by Gerald Parel and Elizabeth Torque!

Elizabeth Torque cover featuring Cheetah, Klarion & Teekl, Hazard, Cheshire, and Featherweight! They're all looking down on us meanly!

Nicola Scott's cover, featuring Cheetah on all fours on the Watchtower, lurking towards us, unaware that Wonder Woman stands sternly behind her. The words "Sticky Fingers, Sticky Situations..." are printed to the left.

Gerald Parel's variant cover, showing Featherweight. She is looking at us being extraordinarily cute, in a pink hoodie with cat ears and a rose-pink bow at her collar.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 17/11/2025

This week, LAZARUS: FALLEN #6, the conclusion of "Rise" -- the first of our four final arcs. There are... developments.... By myself, @michaellark.bsky.social, @airy.bsky.social, @mercuryeric.bsky.social, @richardhowe.bsky.social, Santi Arcas, edited by @alejandrobot.com. From @imagecomics.com!

Sonja Bittner, a tall lady Lazarus wearing silver armor with a red cape, stands on a piece of rubble overlooking a North African landscape, her longsword in one hand.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 04/11/2025

Renee gets me. CHEETAH & CHESHIRE ROB THE JUSTICE LEAGUE 4 is out tomorrow! Cats, rats, and capers! Art by @nicolascottart.bsky.social ! Colors by Annette Kwok, lettering by Troy Peteri!

A very tired and still waking up Renee Montoya stands at her bathroom mirror trying to get Red Tornado to shut-up about the morning briefing because she hasn't had coffee yet. Renee wears a white ribbed tank and black shorts, her hair tied up and back. We've all been there, even if we haven't given up coffee. Art by Nicola Scott, colors by Annette Kwok, lettering by Troy Peteri.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 22/10/2025

Tomorrow, LAZARUS: FALLEN 5, by myself and @michaellark.bsky.social, Santi Arcas, @airy.bsky.social, @mercuryeric.bsky.social, and @richardhowe.bsky.social, edited by @alejandrobot.com Tired of a world ruled by billionaires? Join the Free!!

A woman lies on an exam bed undergoing an agonizing procedure that seems to give her great joy.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 18/10/2025

Lot of good energy. Lot of community. Lot of honking horns. Liked this sign in particular.

Young man dressed as a founding father holding a sign that reads, “We’re not asking for much. Just follow the constitution.”

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 01/10/2025

Out tomorrow, Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #3. Klarion has a crush. Art by @nicolascottart.bsky.social with colors by Annette Kwok, lettering by Troy Peteri!

Klarion the Witch Boy, with his familiar Teekl on his shoulder, screws up his courage to talk to a (gasp!) girl!

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 29/09/2025

This week!! CHEETAH & CHESHIRE ROB THE JUSTICE LEAGUE #3! Heisting ensues!!

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 16/09/2025

Very saddened to hear of Robert Redford's passing. He seemed a man who walked his talk as best he could, and his work both in front of and behind the camera brought much joy. Some favorites, in no order:

Redford in 3 Days of the Condor, about a CIA analyst who inadvertently becomes an assassin.

Redford and Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, one of my all time favorite films.

Redford in Jeremiah Johnson, depicted in his mountain man garb standing against the snow-covered Rocky Mountains.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 15/09/2025

Out next week! LAZARUS: FALLEN #4! Art by @michaellark.bsky.social, colors by Santi Arcas, letters by @garbagedracula.bsky.social, design by @mercuryeric.bsky.social and artifacts by @richardhowe.bsky.social. Edited by @alejandrobot.com and published by @imagecomics.com!

A female figure hides against a backdrop of a stained-glass window in red light, her form blurring against the background. Art by Michael Lark.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 01/09/2025

This week! The issue EVERYONE has been waiting for! And then, after you pick up Batman #1, grab a copy of Cheetah & Cheshire #2 by @nicolascottart.bsky.social and myself! 😂

The Cheetah and Cheshire stand before a wall covered with mugshots of various DCU villains. Art by Nicola Scott, colors by Annette Kwok.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 27/08/2025

Lazarus: Fallen #3 out tomorrow! Treachery! Intrigue! Violence! Nudity! Everything you want in a comic!

Sir Thomas Huston, a handsome black man raising a longsword over his head, prepares to bring it down upon Forever Carlye, on her back and bloodied. The sun shines brightly behind Thomas. Art by Michael Lark.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 08/08/2025

I am now reliably informed that Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #1 IS available from a certain online digital service that was not able to get it to your hot little hands yesterday. So what’re you waiting for, hmm? @nicolascottart.bsky.social wants to know!

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 06/08/2025

Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #1 drops today! I am legit excited to share this with folks. It’s a lot of fun, and I’m really hoping people will come along with @nicolascottart.bsky.social and I for the ride!

The Cheetah and Cheshire peek through a shredded-by-claws Justice League emblem, each grinning. Art by Nicola Scott, colors by Annette Kwok.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 31/07/2025

It lives!! It’s so pretty! Out next week!

Image of The Cheetah by artist Gerald Parel.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 29/07/2025

LAZARUS: FALLEN issue 2 is out this week, in which Forever and Infinity try to make nice with the Free of Paris.

Two young women with swords in their hands walk away from a burning inferno, apparently satisfied with whatever it is they may have done to start the fire and erode the plutocracy that now rules the world. Art by Michael Lark.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 19/07/2025

Hey! @nicolascottart.bsky.social cover to Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League #3 is live! Meet the crew!

Gathered apparently watching tv or something, Cheshire, Cheetah, and Hazard behind Lian Harper with a bowl of popcorn, Klarion the Witch-Boy and his familiar Teekl, and someone you’ve never seen before named Featherweight.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 13/07/2025

Just woke up. What’d I miss?

Superman speaking to a group of boys and girls telling them to be more woke and that not being woke is un-American.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 28/05/2025

Reminder that LAZARUS: FALLEN #1 final order cut-off is MONDAY! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (inhales) OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Lunar order code: 0425IM294

Forever Carlyle dressed in black against a golden yellow background stands with her bloody sword ready to cut up fascists. Art by Michael Lark.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 09/04/2025

Hey all! FOC for LAZARUS: The Fourth Collection HC is this coming Monday! Get your pre-orders in with your LCS! Lunar code: 0325IM428! Collecting ALL of Lazarus: Risen plus 2 uncollected issues of the original series, all in prep for the return of Lazarus in June!

Michael Lark's cover to LAZARUS: The Fourth Collection, showing Forever standing in front of an exploding Carlyle Family emblem. She looks very at peace with this.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 27/03/2025

LAZARUS: FALLEN #1 is also available for pre-order now, Lunar Code: 0425IM294 (again, that's an "i" for @imagecomics.com). By myself, @michaellark.bsky.social, Santi Arcas, @airy.bsky.social, @mercuryeric.bsky.social, @richardhowe.bsky.social and @alejandrobot.com! The first of our final 20!

Forever is annoyed by the bullet hole in her forehead. She holds her bloody sword, ready to decapitate fascists and plutocrats. Certainly a book for our times. Art by Michael Lark.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 27/03/2025

Hey! Some comics I wrote are available for pre-order! The Old Guard: The Immortal Edition, Vol 1 collects "Opening Fire" and "Force Multiplied". By myself, Leandro Fernández, Daniella Miwa, Jodi Wynne, and @alejandrobot.com! Lunar Code: 0425IM466 (That's an "i" after the 5, for @imagecomics.com!)

Andy holds her labrys and is ready to cut off the head of any fucking fascist who gets in her way. Be like Andy.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 26/02/2025

A reminder that, in advance of the start of the final series, LAZARUS: FALLEN, in June, the 4th HARDCOVER is available for preorder! You can preorder from book and comic book stores -- Lunar Code: 0325IM428 (that's an "i" in the middle, not a 1!)

Cover for Lazarus: The Fourth Collection, hardcover, featuring Forever on a white background, holding her sword, surrounded by an exploding Carlyle crest. Art by Michael Lark, design by Eric Trautmann.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 09/02/2025

Time to share! Cover to LAZARUS: FALLEN #1 by Michael Lark! Coming in June from @imagecomics.com! First of the final 20 issues!

Forever Carlyle stands with her bloody sword ready to take on all comers. Forever is dressed predominantly in black against a yellow-gold background. Credits in the lower left.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 23/01/2025

No. No. No. No. No, fuck you, no, never. And fuck you for making this apparently impossible for me to turn off, Microsoft. Am glad I have canceled my subscription.

Microsoft Word blank page with text telling me how to use their fucking AI "Copilot" with no way for me to turn this feature off, the bastards.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 06/01/2025

This is Marlowe. She does not feel we love here enough all the time.

A black haired Airedoodle is wrapped in a burgundy comforter.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 01/01/2025

@rincewind.run figured you’d appreciate this: genuinely one of the things I look forward to in the new year. #paulkidby #discworld

Photo of the front of the Discworld calendar for 2025, art by Paul Kidby. Cover depicts the many MANY characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 11/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20

Cover to Loren D. Estleman’s Sherlock Holmes pastiche, Dr.Jeckyll and Mr.Holmes. Cover is in a sickly green with retorts and other such bubbling mad science devices, with a Jeckyll/Hyde duo in the background. Low in foreground is a very traditional rendering of a Rathbone-influenced Holmes wear deerstalker and smoking a pipe. Holmes looks mildly concerned at us.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 10/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19

The Surgeon’s Mate, by Patrick O’Brian. Cover is a shot of the helm on a sailing ship in storm-tossed seas, the helmsman and scattered officers in oilskin slickers and hats hoping the vessel stays true.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 09/12/2024

The long-awaited 4th HC collection of LAZARUS, collecting all of Lazarus: Risen and issues 27 & 28 of the original series, is out this May. Over 400 pages of comic storytelling and extras! Cover art by Michael Lark, book design by @mercuryeric.bsky.social! From @imagecomics.bsky.social!

Forever Carlyle stands defiantly in the FG, her hair blown about as if in an explosion, while behind her fragments of a DNA strand are blown to pieces. The title, Lazarus, is at the top of the page, in iridescent purple shifting to blue-green. The color reflects on Forever as she stands, one hand in a fist, the other holding her sword. She does not look like someone to fuck with right now.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 09/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18

The cover to Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel A Wizard of Earthsea. Sunlight cuts through stormclouds in the sky, while over the water before us the shadow of a dragon in flight is visible. Green hills on a distant shore are lit in the shafts of sunlight through the clouds.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 08/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17

Cover to John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. The image shows Lenny and George as small figures walking along a road with denuded trees on either side towards the mountains that frame the Salinas valley.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 06/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 16

Cover to Stuart Kaminsky’s novel, Murder on the Yellow Brick Road, featuring a man dressed as a munchkin lying on his back, with a knife in his chest, on the set of the yellow brick road, lit by a stage lamp.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 05/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 15

The novel Flood by Andrew Vachss. The cover features a man in a 40s style hat, illuminated in a circle, bisected blue and red-orange, on a black background. A figure in silhouette past him appears to be performing a martial arts kata.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 05/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 14

The cover to The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Illustrated in black, grey, green, and white, the cover shows Mirkwood giving way to the Misty Mountains. The image is bordered by Dwarven runes I believe.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 04/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 13

Cover to Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress, featuring a blonde woman in a blue dress surrounded by art deco-ish images of jazz and booze.

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