Issue Five Online!
After months of stale website material, Issue Five is now available to read online. It's been completed since August (as anyone who saw me at the Canadian National Comic Book Expo will know), but I'm just getting around to a website update now.

So take a look at Issue Five, the best issue yet! If you need some convincing, check out comic book aficionado, Fletch Adams's review.

Avril Lavigne Wins!
At the Toronto comic convetions this summer, I held a poll: "Which famous Canadian would you like to see kidnapped in Issue Six?" Like the CBC's "Greatest Canadian" poll, but with sinister intent. The choices: Pierre Berton (who is not dead, despite people's insistence), Avril Lavigne, Don McKellar, David Suzuki, or a write-in.

A landslide victory ensued. Napanee's pop-punk princess will be the kidnapping victim of Issue Six. Her management has so far shown no interest in getting involved with the project, but we'll see how things progress. The runners-up were as follows: David Suzuki (52), Don McKellar (22), Pierre Berton (9), Don Cherry (7), Ben Mulroney (4), William Shatner (3), Anne Murray (2), Margaret Atwood (2), and Celine Dion (2).

Some other write-ins I found amusing: Geddy Lee, Gordon Pinsent, Lloyd Roberston, Marshall McLuhan (who is dead), God (apparently Canadian), and Sailor Moon (those manga types).

Everybody Loves T-Shirts!
Now available: spectacularly low-budget, homemade A.C.U.M. T-Shirts! The cost: a mere $15 for an incredibly arcane T-Shirt. And like Ford's Model-T, you can get them in any colour, as long as it's black. They come with one of six different phrases ("Spectacularly low-budget", "Waterloo's premier superhero team", "No one cares how you dance", "Everybody beat the hell out of my father", "Eliminate the intelligentsia", I (heart) Dorian"), and four sizes (youth medium and large, and adult medium and large). Contact Evan if you're at all interested.

Toronto Comicon!
June 18-20, 2004, Paradise Comics' Toronto Comicon hits the Queen Elizabeth Building of Exhibition Place, Toronto. And Evan Munday is going to be there, hawking issue four of The Amazing Challengers of Unknown Mystery, as well as all the previous issues. (Tragically, there is no way physically possible to complete issue five for the convention.) So come on down to the Toronto Comicon, buy some comic books, meet celebrity writers and illustrators. Come and chat with Evan (because he will be lonely) about his current loves (Blue Monday, Wildguard, old X-men issues) and his current hates (many Marvel comics, finding a job). See you there! For more information, visit www.torontocomicon.com.

Rave Reviews!
Since Issue Four hit the streets, The Amazing Challengers of Unknown Mystery has been getting some mad ink. The latest issue of broken pencil (#24) features a review of Issue Three, right where the business reply card is stuck in, and they really seemed to like it (though they didn't get the title right). You can check out the broken pencil website, but last I checked, they still had their last issue up there. And Fletch Adams, of Comic Skin News, reviewed Issue Four already, and he liked it, too. Something very wrong is happening.

Beautiful Losers!
Issue Four is done and available for perusal on the site! Thrill to the team sitting around and making small talk! Issue Four is also available in stores in Toronto (The Beguiling, Pages, Silver Snail, Uprising) and Waterloo (Carry-On Comics). And if all goes well, individual pages should be drawing your attention to telephone poles around downtown Toronto. A massive postering campaign has been devised. It will be interesting to see how well it works out.

Posters!
We've recently added a poster section, with the posters used to advertise Issues #1-4 now online. Some of these are a fair deal better than the actual comics, so be sure to check them out.

New Website!
Welcome to The Amazing Challengers of Unknown Mystery website! The black-and-white, low-budget comic book that began as pages posted on bulletin boards around the University of Waterloo is now a snazzy internet site (thanks to the web design talents of Brad Beattie and space and scanning talents of Paul Hoepfner-Homme).

I'm Evan Munday, university student and disreputable illustrator, ordering you to have fun on this site. Read scans of the comics for free. Familiarize yourself with the players in this sordid tale. E-mail your comments and questions or (even better) find out how to order crisp paper copies for yourself and your friends.