The Monsters Meet on Court Street and Other Tales of Supernatural Law

Beware the creatures of the night they have lawyers Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd have an unusual law practice defending monsters and the supernaturally afflicted. In this collection of stories, the attorneys represent a wide variety of clients, from a mad scientist who falls in love with a woman in another dimension, to a gangster gorilla boss, to a tycoon's childhood invisible friend. Readers also learn more about the personal lives of the attorneys and of their intrepid secretary, Mavis, who has her own adventure with a runaway robot. Contents include issues 30, 37, 38, 39, and 40 of Batton Lash's Supernatural Law comic book series as well as Mavis #4 and twenty all-new pages. The Monsters Meet on Court Street is volume 6 in this ongoing graphic novel series that mixes humor, horror, and the law to produce a unique and fun reading experience."

Writer/artist Batton Lash studied cartooning and graphic arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where his instructors included Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. In 1979 he started the Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre comic strip, which ran weekly in The Brooklyn Paper until 1996 and in The National Law Journal from 1983 to 1997. Starting in May 1994, Wolff & Byrd held court in their own comic book series from Exhibit A Press, which Lash established with his wife, Jackie Estrada. Exhibit A has published five deluxe trade paperback collections and two short graphic novels: The Life-Partner of Frankenstein and The Gods Must Be Litigious. Since 2005 he has been producing an ongoing webcomic at www.supernaturallaw.com. His other comics work has included writing Archie Meets the Punisher for Archie and Marvel; the Archie: Freshman Year series for Archie; and the Radioactive Man series and stories for Bongo Comics.