There was a time when paperback racks were full of men’s adventure series. Next to the Louis L’Amours, one could find the adventures of The Executioner, The Destroyer, The Death Merchant, and many more action heroes who were hell-bent on bringing America back from the brink. That time was the 1970s and ’80s—a bygone era filled with wide-eyed innocence, high body counts, and glorious mustaches.
Blood & Tacos brought those stories back. While the dynamic quarterly magazine has officially ridden off into the sunset after a four-issue run, the complete legacy of action, fun, and facial hair remains fully intact.
If you are looking to catch up on the chaos, each of the four individual issues is still available for your Kindle thingamagummer, or you can grab the massive annual omnibus collection, which binds all the original magazine stories together under a traditionally beautifully trashy, snazzy cover. You can also still dive into the archives and read the original issues completely for free on the website.
Furthermore, Blood & Tacos lives on as a dedicated Creative Guy Publishing imprint, bringing you longer, standalone book-length adventures featuring some of your favorite B&T characters, delivered exactly as they were meant to be read, completely untamed by rigid historical formats.
For a hit of nostalgia, or just to read the archives for free, head on over to the official Blood & Tacos website.
Action-packed mayhem discovered by: Johnny Shaw, Gary Phillips, Matthew Funk, Christopher Blair, and Cameron Ashley!
This issue has fist-pounding adventure discovered by: Ray Banks, Josh Stallings, Andrew Nette, Frank Larnerd, and Jimmy Callaway.
Blood & Tacos 3 includes a schwack of fist-pumping fiction from the legendary Stephen Mertz, along with Garnett Elliott, Todd Robinson, Chris La Tray and Rob Kroese. Like you couldn’t have read that on the cover.
Another round of lurid, er um, adventurous fiction discovered by Brad Mengel, Bart Lessard, Nick Slosser, Thomas Pluck, and Oren Brimer!
BLOOD & TACOS: THE BEGINNING, the print-only omnibus that collects the hard-fisted, pistol-packing fiction stories from the first four issues of Blood & Tacos, is now available. From the four corners of the globe, authors such as Ray Banks, Gary Phillips, Josh Stallings, Robert Kroese, Cameron Ashley, Todd Robinson, Stephen Mertz and a dozen other authors dug up stories of action and adventure that will literally explode your brains.*
*The book will not literally explode your brain.
World War III has come at last, and it’s glorious! Born from the pages of the legendary Blood & Tacos magazine, Battleground U.S.S.A.: Red Dusk is a high-octane, hilariously macho parody of 1980s Cold War invasion thrillers. Follow Captain Mike McCreary as he mounts a fiercely patriotic, delightfully campy resistance against a deranged Communist general.
