Katchoo is a beautiful young woman living a quiet life with everything going for her.  She's independent, smart and very much in love with her best friend, Francine, a lovable neurotic with a heart of gold.  Everything is perfect, until Katchoo's former employer, the deadly Mrs. Parker, comes looking for her and $850,000 in missing mob money.  As her idyllic life begins to fall apart, Katchoo realizes she never left the past behind, she brought it with her, and now it threatens to destroy her and the woman she loves.

From it's quiet beginning to the terrifying, violent climax, this story of love and friendship will give you and intimate look into the lives of two extraordinary women who wake up one day to find they've become Strangers in Paradise.

"This is the comic book to give someone who doesn't ready comics.  This is the book that will prove that comics are not only for kids anymore, but that as an art form, they can aspire to a cohesiveness that prose and painting alone, individually, lack."  -- plaNETLar

"People, fights, relationships, desperations, desire, despair, hope... and no spandex.  In a comic book?  One of the most interesting, thought-provoking stories ever to grace the printed page, Terry Moore's Stranger in Paradise is an insightful, stylized breath of fresh air.  It's a sure one-read-and-you're-hooked sort of book." -- Overstreet's FAN

"This instantly likeable, extremely personable series is an instant favorite for almost everyone who reads it; Moore creates such believable characters that you feel like you know them both before you've finished a single issue." -- Comic Shop News

"Okay, so Terry Moore is a guy, and I don't know how he knows all this stuff about women's friendships, depressions and relationships hang-ups, but he really does a fantastic job.  I love this book." -- Laura Braman, Advance Comics

Foreword by Diana Schutz

Afterword by Dave Sim

Ninth Printing