Runemaster Studtios, Inc. has announced that it is severing ties with Alias Enterprises effective immediately.  Runemaster initially published its hit all-ages series Lions, Tigers and Bears through Image, but took the title to Alias last April (see 'Lions, Tigers and Bears Trade in July') for the publication of a trade paperback collection.  In addition to the Lions, Tigers and Bears trade paperback Alias has also published the first issue of Runemaster's The Gimoles.

 

According to Runemaster President Mike Bullock, the second issue of The Gimoles was delivered to Alias in mid-July for August publication, but has yet to appear.  Bullock indicated that Runemaster has already found a new publisher for Lions, Tigers and Bears and that the first issue in a new LTB mini-series should be out in early 2006, but he did not reveal what would happen to The Gimoles except to say 'the story will be finished, one way or another.'  Bullock indicated that the Lions, Tigers and Bears trade paperback published by Alias was out of print, but Alias's Mike Miller contends that copies are still available.