Brian Beatty's jokes, poems, and stories have appeared in numerous print and online pubs, including Alba, Conduit, elimae, Gulf Coast, Hobart, Juked, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, MicroHorror, milk, Monkeybicycle, Opium Magazine, Phoebe, The Quarterly, The Rake, Seventeen, and Yankee Pot Roast. He lives in Minneapolis.
Issue 5...WRAPS A SCIENTIFIC CORE WITH OUR MOST ECLECTIC SELECTION TO DATE—including two mini graphic novels and a script that will have you bubbling over with mirth.
Phoebus is a good, simple-minded backwoods kid who idolizes his big brother Kenny. Kenny, not much brighter, is full of spunk, full of himself, and full of plans. His plans generally revolve around getting away from the small town he grew up in and "being someone". His father (but not Phoebus') was a small-time crook, and Kenny dreams of being more, of pulling off something "big".
