Assist an old enemy in breaking into a highly restricted, heavily guarded, famously classified government facility? It’s not exactly the freewheeling road trip Raphael had in mind, but with Pepperoni’s life in the balance, he’s diving in headfirst. It’s the point of no return as Raph and Metalhead breach Area 51! Surrounded by the E.P.F.’s coveted technology, Metalhead’s motives come to light. He’ll stop at nothing to commandeer the secrets of this dimension! Time is running out for Raph to find Pepperoni and use his strength for good…but a clean plan is off the table when old friends call out for help. Last Ronin co-writer Tom Waltz and artist Vincenzo Federici continue Raphael’s desert detour in Part II of “Attack on Area 51”! Then, in Erik Burnham and Mateus Santolouco’s heart-pounding backup story, Casey Jones endures Karai’s grueling test of loyalty—and a run in with Bebop and Rocksteady gives him an idea…
Erik Burnham is a Minnesotan writer and artist that first broke into comics with a series of humorous short stories in the Shooting Star Comics Anthology. These stories featured his original creation, Nick Landime, and culminated in a one-shot: Nick Landime vs. the World Crime League, published by Shooting Star in 2005.
Off and on, in this same time period, Erik also produced a short run of an online strip, The Down Side, until technical issues wore him down. He aims to return to the strip one day.
In 2007, Erik found produced work for two other anthologies – a short humor piece for History Graphics Press’ Civil War Adventures #1, and a horror story for Gene Simmons’ House of Horror #3, produced by IDW Publishing.
This lead to several other projects for IDW, up to and including his critically acclaimed run on the ongoing GHOSTBUSTERS comic book.
Erik has worked on other projects not related to comic books, and hopes one day to share those with the public at large. In the meantime, he still lives quietly in Minnesota; any rumors about this being because he’s completely afraid of the forty-nine other states (and Canada) remain unverified at this time.