If you haven’t tried W&B yet, this is a good issue to sample. This expanded, 32- page issue contains two short stories: “I Married a Snivelling Blob of Jelly” and “The Man with His Own Personal Laugh Track.” These stories are sandwiched into a wrap-around series of scenes featuring “Strange Bedfellows”: Toby and Mavis, Alanna…

Satan. Religious fundamentalists. Abortion. Yes, its another wacky, hilarious issue of Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre. In this takeoff on Rosemary’s Baby, a small-town girl discovers she’s carrying the devil’s child and decides to get an abortion. The fundamentalist townspeople get wind of the abortion plans and strongly voice their opposition. But then…

Psychic phenomena…alien abductions…unexplained coincidences…these are things Alanna and Jeff can deal with. But when two FBI agents show up and start trampling on Wolff & Byrd’s otherworldly client’s rights, things really get spooky. The story involves UFOs, espionage, invasion of privacy, and, of course, illegal aliens! “I see this parody of The X Files as…

Mavis stays home and minds the office while Jeff and Alanna go off to San Diego for the Bar Convention. Mavis ends up tangling with that pesky Toby Bascoe and “Th’Lulu,” a creature conjured from an ancient tome. Meanwhile, Wolff & Byrd encounter convention shenanigans, including costumers, huksters, and boring panels, at a more “informal”…

Like issue #3, this issue is a collection of interrelated short stories. First up is “I, Sodd,” in which we learn more about this vegetative character, from his own point of view. Then Jeff Byrd tells his own personal story — “I Turned My Dream Date into a Nightmare” — of a night on the…

Monster shows are springing up all over the city, each claiming to have the “original” dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, and Wolf-Man. One show promoter attempts to prove that he has the “real” Dracula — without thinking about the consequences. Soon the streets of lower New York are filled with vampires, werewolves, and fabricated monsters — and…

Supermodel Dawn DeVine wants to get out of her contract with the Greatbody Agency, but the agency’s head, Jake Panache, has a magical hold over her. The supernatural nature of his control is revealed when Dawn is unable to appear in court because of her unusual “condition.” Part of the story is told in fairy…

When 1950’s horror host “The Bier-Meister” is tapped to host a new show on EEK!, the All-Horror Channel, parents’ groups try to get the program squelched. Wolff and Byrd end up having to spring the Beir-Meister from jail, deal with the spirit of a 1950’s anti-horror crusader, battle do-gooders from the present, and endure the…

In this change-of-pace issue we go behind the scenes at the law offices as well as see Alanna and Jeff tackle three separate cases. In “The Zombies Strike at Midnight,” workers at the voodoo doll plant consult W&B in their labor dispute with their black magic-wielding boss. Sodd, the Thing Called It, is back in…

Kim Curtis, an old friend of Jeff Byrd’s, comes to him with a big problem: the house she and her husband, Tom, bought turns into a haunted house whenever the moon is full. Now Tom’s boss is suing for personal injuries incurred when the house attacked him, the neighbors are up in arms over the…