ITEM - The Zoom Comics Group is pleased to announce that one of our most popular characters ever created is getting her own title. That's right, you guessed right, no pork, no chicken, no fish - It's Beef Girl! Featuring an all new 20 page adventure, Beef Girl #1 is online for you to read right now! Beef Girl originally debuted as a three page story in Rule The World comics, and that one story has seemed to get more attention than anything else we've ever produced. So now that she has her own title, we're hoping that she'll take off as never before!

ITEM - In my last message to you, reliable readers, I spent some time discussing the refurbishing of many of the older comic book titles available on The Zoom Comics Group. When I created The Zoom Comics Group in 1997, the World Wide Web was less than a decade old, and 640 x 480 was the standard browser resolution. All comic books we published online comformed to this browser resolution, and as time went by, monitors became bigger. The most common monitor resolution used for websites today is 1024 x 768, and many browsers are much larger than that. Eventually, higher and higher browser resolution was shrinking our comics pages until on most browsers today, they fill a small portion of the screen. If had read some of our comics recently, you probably have wondered why they seem to fill such a small portion of the screen. Because we have been publishing since 1997, our initial standards have become antiquated.

So, we set out to rescan, reletter and recolor these older comic titles to fit the new, more spacious design. I am pleased to say that this enormous endeavor is mostly complete. All issues of Rule The World comics have been refurbished, as well as the first issue of Beware. That leaves one more title to rework, that being the first five issues of our flagship title, Johnny Zoom. I would like to say thanks for your patience in this endeavor, as this refurbishing has slowed the pace of producing new comic books for your reading pleasure.

ITEM - Speaking of the refurbishing of Johnny Zoom 1-5, we are going to try something different, and present those older titles in a new format that reads more like a comic book. in the world of online comic book publishing, there are no rules, and if there are, why, I'm sure we'll break them. in any case, the refurbished Johnny Zoom will be online soon, and we're excited to try out a new format for publishing online comic books.

ITEM - Don't forget to let us know what you think of our online comic books! Feedback is important, and we wanna know what you think! Drop us a line at zoom@zoomgraphics.com and tell us what you liked, what you didn't like, and what you didn't pay any attention to whatsoever! This will help make our comc books more fun for you, the reader!

ITEM - We have many new projects in the works, as the current release of Beef Girl #1 shows. Also in the works is the long-awaited Johnny Zoom #6, which will be unlike anything we have yet published. I don't want to give away too much, but it will be the first comic book from The Zoom Comics Group to be published using Adobe's Flash program. And a new comic called Nick and Natalie is being developed, also in a new format that is much different than anything we have done to date. So stay tuned to The Zoom Comics Group - you ain't seen nothin' yet!

Onward and Upward!