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Published by No Media Kings (www.nomediakings.org) in Canada.

SWORD OF MY MOUTH © 2010 Jim Munroe and Shannon Gerard. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Munroe, Jim, 1972-

Sword of my mouth : a post-rapture graphic novel / Jim Munroe ; [illustrations by] Shannon Gerard.

ISBN 978-1-60010-604-0

I. Gerard, Shannon, 1973- II. Title.

PN6733.M85S86 2010 741.5’971 C2010-901341-7

Digital Painting: Scott “Secret Weapon” Waters

Editor: Alison Kooistra

Valuable Feedback: Suzanne Andrew, Carol Borden, Susan Bustos, Jhon Clark, Nicholas Di Genova, Greg Dunford, Sarah
Gwisdalla, Nalo Hopkinson, Josh Kostka, Guy Leshinski, Adam Morris, Liam O’Donnell, and Tate Young.

Character Models: Atique Azad, Willy Brown, Rick Conroy, Adrienne Costantino, Luke Dickerson, Emma Gerard, Robyn Gerard, Sue Gerard, James Greer, Doug Harvey, Dajuan Holbrook, Justin Labine, Eric Mathew, Gideon Naef, Erin Nims, Colin Rogers, Ayako Shimizu, Simone Sicard, Shaheer Szazai, Hayden Thomas, and L’il Gee as the baby. Many thanks, also, to
countless O-kids for stepping in as background characters. Special thanks to those who were willing to stand in as characters with completely different personalities from their own.

We would also like to thank the people behind some of the Detroit projects that inspired this story, and hope they don’t mind us referencing them: Catherine Ferguson Academy, detroityes.com, the Heidelberg Project, Hamtramck Disneyland,
sweet-juniper.com, and Trumbullplex. Thanks also to Chris Butcher, Mike O’Connor, Max Douglas, Terry Lau, Carolyn
Leadley, El-Farouk Khaki, Curtis McGuire, Gayla Trail, and the Ontario Arts Council.

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The IDW logo is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. Printed in Korea. IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork.

Writer/Creator Jim Munroe is an indie culture maker and community organizer. He’s spent the last decade making lo-fi sci-fi movies, teenage outcast videogames, and a half-dozen novels. As a byproduct of this medium-hopping he’s provided DIY publishing resources, delivered presentations like Time Management for
Anarchists, and helped start Toronto’s videogame coalition, The Hand Eye Society. Find out more and contact him via his website, nomediakings.org.

Illustrator/Letterer Shannon Gerard works in a variety of media. She writes and draws comics, crochets soft sculptures, binds books, and makes prints. Two current projects are the online illustrated serial Unspent Love (or Things I Wish I Told You) for Top Shelf Productions and the conclusion of her autobio series Hung. Sword of My Mouth is Shannon’s first collaborative graphic novel. You can see more of her work online at shannongerard.org.

$14.99 US / $15.99 CAN

“It’s completely nuts.... It’s a book about what if the Rapture actually happened, and that’s all I’m gonna tell you.”

— Pulitzer Prize Winner Junot Díaz on Therefore Repent!

Ella’s baby isn’t quite right. But since the righteous floated into the sky and magic started working, not much is.

A stand-alone story continuing on from the acclaimed graphic novel Therefore Repent!, Sword of My Mouth moves the focus from Chicago, under siege by angels with machine guns, to the urban prairie of Detroit. Folks in the D have banded together to turn land with burned-out crackhouses into farming tracts, and seem to be on a road to self-sufficiency... until Famine rides into town.

“Jim Munroe’s done for the Book of Revelation what Ronald D. Moore did for Battlestar Galactica.”

— Peter Watts, author of the Hugo-nominated Blindsight

“If you love tales of the apocalypse but want something smarter and more character-driven... you must read this comic.”

— Annalee Newitz, io9.com

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