Pete the P.O.'d Postal Worker (Paperback)

Break out your Kevlar! Pete the P.O.'d Postal Worker is gonna give you both barrels of full metal jacket, full auto, no prisoners taken, in his first Trade Paperback of Pete adventures. All Pete lives for is to deliver mail, but his boss fears him, hates him, and sends him to neighborhoods that will kill him. These are the first five issues of Pete that drew raves from Previews, Comic Retailer, Wizard, Comic Buyers Guide, and postal workers nationwide. You get a full 142 pages of art that will make you respect your local postal worker—if not fear them. "Going Postal" is what Pete does on a good day. The explosive first issue finds Pete relegated to mail sorting to keep him away from the public. A postal worker gets shot when a gang robs him the day Social Security Checks are delivered. NO ONE wants to take over the route, yet "the Mail-Must-Go-Through" (based on an actual occurrence in Washington, D.C.). Pete is the only one who will take it, and he hits the streets after years of sorting mail. What happens next is all the mail gets delivered, but the gang, a pit bull, and miscellaneous other incidents result in Pete's incarceration in a maximum security prison. In Issue 2, his incarceration is short-lived, as are the lives of his fellow inmates. He scares the inmates so much that he gets back on the streets for unforgettable deliveries to a militia group, terrorists, and carnivorous invading aliens escaping from Roswell, New Mexico. They are also obstructing mail service, which makes Pete very, VERY ANGRY. It takes both Issue 3 & 4 to finish them all off. Issue 5 finishes with a well-deserved vacation in England, complete with girlfriend, heartbreak, knighthood, and an international incident. Says Previews Small Press Snapshot, "Imagine Quentin Tarantino directing Il Postino." "Going Postal" is what Pete does on a Good Day; on a bad day... You don't want to know. Great gift to give that United States Post Office (USPS) postal worker to take the edge off his day.