She works as a dancer at the Nile Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas; her onstage partner and offstage pet is an ostrich named Bolero.

Phil Winslade's cover painting for NEVADA #2. To visit the NEVADA Cover Gallery, click here.

She doesn't talk much about her past. Her professional future is in doubt. And her present, already plagued by a stalking ex-boyfriend, is due to take a turn for the decidedly weird.

It happens in the pages of NEVADA, a 6-issue VERTIGO miniseries by genre-bending writer Steve Gerber (Howard the Duck), with stunning pencils and painted covers by Phil Winslade (Wonder Woman: Amazonia), and interior inks by Steve Leialoha (Chronos).

At VERTIGO, Gerber's witty, gritty vision, pioneered twenty years ago in the ahead-of-its-time Howard the Duck, has found an ideal home. Says Executive Editor Karen Berger, "Steve's approach to reality is unique, even for VERTIGO." Nonetheless, a number of VERTIGO writers count Gerber as a strong influence on their own projects. As NEVADA takes its place alongside them, it elevates both Gerber and the VERTIGO imprint to a new level.

In this pulp-fiction fable, a series of bizarre murders strikes the Nile Hotel. Nevada worries that she'll lose her job if the casino's revenues suffer -- but that may be the least of her troubles. She's about to be drawn into a series of events involving dismembered corpses, accidental time-travel, a homeless man who becomes a seer when he drinks, and a would-be Godfather whose head is in a very strange place.

And it's all escalating into something literally cosmic.

NEVADA is a 6-issue VERTIGO miniseries in the Rebax Format, suggested for mature readers, and is edited by Karen Berger. NEVADA #1 arrives in comic-book stores March 25, 1998, with a cover price of $2.50 U.S., and each chapter follows monthly thereafter.

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