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First of all, to any new readers, welcome. I hope you're enjoying both the comic and the site. Take a look around, read all the back episodes starting with the first. Let us know what you think by commenting on the comics or sending us email. If you really enjoy what you're reading, please consider buying the first issue of the paper comic in the Hellcats bookstore. It's not just what you see here, it's a completely new story featuring the girls and even some of their real photos. Like the one to the right.

Why are there new readers? Well, Max and I made the decision to start advertising. That's brought a lot of new visitors to the site in the last 24 hours and hopefully even more to come in the coming days. 

We're advertising through Project Wonderful. We've also decided to start selling ad space through them. There are now ad blocks available on this site Three square blocks in the ad sidebar all the way to the right of this page, eight button blocks across the very bottom of the page and one featured banner that appears throughout the site. Project Wonderful has a very interesting auction business plan approach to selling advertising. Rather than rotate ads, they're constant until you're outbid or you don't want to pay anymore. It's a pretty good system that I've been pretty happy with. So if you've got a website that you want to promote, please by all means, bid on one of our blocks there and you'll be advertising here in no time.

And on to the "sexy stuff". I had been meaning to put some shots of the girls "out of costume" up here on the site, but I hadn't gotten around to it. It was always our intent to have this site be a little different by featuring pinups of the real girls to go along with their characters, so I decided to add a few today. That's the real Amaya Solace above and below we have pics of the real Sarah Prankha, Chaste and Damsel Reed.

Again, I welcome all the new viewers, and I say thank you to everyone who's been with us since the beginning or anywhere in between. We've got a lot of cool stuff planned so keep coming back.

-Mav

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Sometimes Max and I like to throw little in-jokes or sight gags in the comic. They're actually all over the first issue of the book if you care to look for them (still available, in two different versions, from the Hellcats Bookstore, order yours today! End Cheap Plug). There have been a couple in the webcomic as well. Sometimes they're really subtle or even really really inside and only we'd get them. Other times, they're there for anyone who cares to see them.

There was one we wanted to do today, but no one would ever notice it because we don't publish the webcomics at high enough resolution to make it legible, so I thought I'd point out the warning label on Chaste's giant gun in today's comic. Max actually came up with the text here, so full credit goes to him on this one. I just added it to the gun when I was doing the coloring and lettering. You can see the text more clearly by clicking on this image, but if you still can't read it, it says:

Max and I are going to be appearing at the "Good and Evil" show at Pittsburgh's Creative Treehouse displaying photos from the Hellcats photoshoot as well as the comic.

If you're in Pittsburgh or near here, by all means stop by and buy a print or a signed book. Should be a blast.

This is an 18 and over show, and BYOB. There will be live bands. I've presented my photography at these shows before and they're generally quite fun. So if you're not busy Saturday night then please come on by.

And if you are busy. Well, cancel your plans. We're much cooler than whatever you were going to be doing anyway.

-Max

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Thank you to everyone who came out to visit us at Pittsburgh Comicon this last weekend. We all had a great time.

And a special thank you to everyone who supported us by buying the book and other merchandise. We look forward to many great Hellcat adventures in the future, and seeing the support makes us feel like it's all worth it.

If you didn't make it out to the show, or you did, but didn't get a chance to pick up the book, you can now do so on our new bookstore page. Mav is going to continue working on updating the site in the next few days, so keep coming back. More pics from the comicon will be posted here soon as well as some other news about the future of Cosmic Hellcats.

Again, thank you to everyone for all the support and we look forward to hearing from you soon. In fact, if you've read the book, please write us and let us know what you think. Send mail to Feedback@CosmicHellcats.com, or just comment on this entry and let us know what you think. 

More cool stuff will be up very soon as the site grows and the comic continues. We hope you continue to join us.

-Fluffy

Cosmic Hellcats IX is a comedic science fiction epic. The story of a four woman team of Felinoids on an intergalatic mission of scientific discovery and peacekeeping. 

The characters are based on four gorgeous real life models, Chaste, Damsel Reed, Sarah Prankha and Amaya Solace. All four girls had worked with photographer, Chris Maverick, and inspired him to write a comic featuring him. Art is provided by Mav's longtime friend and collaborator, Maximilian.

Or order the comic online from IndyPlanet. If you'd like something really special order the Portfolio edition from Blurb.com. The Portfolio edition includes the first issue of the comic as well as a collection of pinups (both drawings by Max and Photographs by Mav) of each of the Hellcats as well as photos of each of the Hellcats from other photoshoots they've done with Mav. 

Pick one or both up today. Then come back here, to CosmicHellcats.com for the debut of the Cosmic Hellcats webcomic.