John IRA Thomas

BEST OF BOOK SEEKS READERS Candle Light Press acquired the rights to make "The Best of TIRE" books in a derelict IP auction, and here's the first one. Hundreds of previously unpublished classified ads for everything from hokum to bunkum Act now to purchase this handsome volume of thinly-veiled attempts to neg you out of your money or more Each ad is carefully redacted, so that even if you believe any of this stuff, it can't harm you. Comes with illustrations at NO EXTRA CHARGE Act now The Best of TIRE Classifieds is the fourth book in the metafictional TIRE series, by John Ira Thomas. It includes full-page illustrations by Carter Allen, Will Beard, Andy Black, Will Grant, Ben Kirbach, Olive Kirbach-Lewis, Nathan Morton, Jackson Palmer, Morgan Pellett, Lexi Shaffer, Jeremy Smith, Colton Strathman, Scott Twells, and John Ira Thomas.

Welcome to La Tornada, the largest trailer park in Texas It's so big, that they have their own government-issued superteam to protect it--Zoo Force Ding has a six-foot tongue and a crash helmet. Pythagoras is a chicken who claims to be a dead philosopher. Prairie Dawg is a human/prairie dog hybrid who mostly likes to shop for vinyl. And Snowball is a polar bear who can read. Their nemeses? Not supervillains, no. It's another superteam, Not Zoo Force--a guy who can take infinite abuse as long as he stands still; another guy who mind-controls domesticated animals; yet another guy with an unusual tumor that can make you see what you fear, and a hyperintelligent cat that mostly makes minicomics. Join Zoo Force and Not Zoo Force as they struggle with life and each other in this master edition of every volume of the acclaimed Zoo Force series by John Ira Thomas and Jeremy Smith There's even new coloring a puzzle pages, as well as essays and fun.

What are the cues we use to determine humanity? Have we been cutting actual humans too much slack in this department? This work explores notions of identity and AI, but is solely the work of humans. For what is the difference between a human seeking a scripted outcome and a script seeking a human outcome? Also, it's pretty funny.John Ira Thomas takes his metafictional TIRE series into the future and looks back at the same weird beliefs that continue to propel us. It's 2038 and John Ira Thomas is nowhere to be found. A new, legally-mandated issue of TIRE magazine must be written. Corley Tire Company decides to farm the project out to AntiJITBot, an AI programmed with all of Thomas' writings. The result is an entire issue of a New Age magazine, right down to the classified ads. Once again, this was written by actual humans. No mystery digits or nightmare palettes. It's just some good old-fashioned human fun with technological concepts that we're going to have to resolve.

What if I told you there are no vampires in Texas? It's true Legend has it was one of those rangers. Like they say: one riot, one ranger. What if I told you that there's watersands in Oklahoma that will devour a car overnight? Okay, sure, I tell you a lot of things. What if I told you a lot of the railroad was built by mutants created by a hot zone strain of syphilis? Or that there's an unreadable data disc in the Texas State Archives that can unravel the whole thing? It all happens in THE WORLD WEST It's told in four interconnected stories written by John Ira Thomas (TIRE JUNE 2000, PAINGELS), and drawn by Will Beard (DAN CALLAHAN AND THE SAND PIRATES), Jeremy Smith (ZOO FORCE, NUMBERS: A Tale of Shades and Angels), Will Grant (LOST IN THE WASH), and Carter Allen (ECTYRON).