Months prior to that exchange, however, an independent auditor raised serious concerns about Platinum's future in the company's annual 10-K filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. An auditor with HJ Associates & Consultants, LLP, wrote that Platinum "has incurred significant losses which have resulted in an accumulated deficit of $9,465,595 as of December 31, 2007. The Company plans to seek additional financing in order to execute its business plan, but there is no assurance the Company will be able to obtain such financing on terms favorable to the Company or at all. These items raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern."

Torres's husband, Eddie, started work at Cantor Fitzgerald in the World Trade Center on September. 10, 2001. The next day, Alissa became one of the "terrorist widows" of 9/11. American Widow chronicles Alissa's first year without Eddie—including the birth of their child, two months after his death. It also traces their courtship, marriage, and the last few days of Eddie's life. This deeply personal book is at times raw, angry, bleak, and lyrical. The best prose comes out of Torres's moments of pure, lonely grief, which punctuate her confusing and at times horrifying experiences with various aid agencies, family members, friends, and strangers. Choi's art is reminiscent of the work of Andi Watson and Craig Thompson, and complements Torres's writing by emphasizing the ordinary in Alissa's extraordinary circumstances. Torres and Choi do best with the confusion and shock that come with a sudden death, laying out scene after scene without quite connecting them—just as events seem to go on and on without meaning when one has lost someone important. What this book lacks in technique and narrative drive, it makes up in its heartfelt look at the universality in one woman's loss. (Sept.)

Last year, Perry Bible Fellowship creator Nicholas Gurewitch published The Trials of Colonel Sweeto, a Dark Horse hardcover collection of his Ignatz Award–winning Web comic. The response shot the cult favorite humor strip up the Amazon.com charts, and three printings later, Gurewitch is planning an even bigger and broader compilation.

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