โ Scribed by Hately, Warren
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Editorial reviews
"Its a skilfully-written superhero fantasy resonant with emotion. Expect to feel your soul move as the swaggering narrator bears comic and often poignant witness to the vagaries of a life both bizarre and very like our own" --AA Attanasio, author of the Radix tetrad and The Dragon and the Unicorn series.
"I absolutely loved this book. The author is whip smart and dissects this genre like a surgeon" --Joe Gazzam, screenwriter, author of Uncaged.
"The book deconstructs the superhero in the most entertaining, cynical and interesting ways" --Michael Ivan Lowell, The Suns of Liberty series.
Zephyr is an ongoing serial that has been favorably compared to Watchmen and similar classics. Like the comic books to which it owes a debt, Zephyr is episodic with an open narrative.
It's 2014 on the eastern seaboard of the United States. The place is Atlantic City: a sweeping longitudinal metropolis rebuilt following widespread devastation in 1984. Superhumans are not only real, they're human. All too human, as Nietzsche would say.
Zephyr is an alt.superhero adventure influenced by post-literary writing and Sturgeon's law. The style is cynical, cinematic and systematically against standard expectations of the genre. Imagine if Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho was about costumed vigilantes rather than stockbrokers and you have half the idea.
Zephyr tells the story of a major, if somewhat jaded superhero in an alternate universe where New York City has been abandoned and the Beatles were a superhero team. Zephyr is a regular guy, but with powers, and it's easy to wonder if his life might have been better without them as supervillains and other problems that only superhumans can deal with derail his efforts handling life.
I cant help but grin. I imagine this is what the giddy euphoria before a suicide mission feels like.
In Volume 6, Zephyr and his fellow masks are urgently summoned to Atlantic City fresh from the turbulent adventures of Zephyr V. The eponymous hero and his allies arrive to find the city under siege from an army of mysterious terrorists backed by a secretive Russian oligarch linked to the world of The Twelve. As Zephyr investigates, re-uniting with Loren aka Seeker for a crash course tour of the citys filthy underbelly and its even more corrupt financial system, the threat of the psionic vampire Matrioshka returns, plunging Zephyr into a fight for his life as well as his very own existence across multiple worlds.
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**Editorial reviews** "I absolutely loved this book. The author is whip smart and dissects this genre like a surgeon" *--Joe Gazzam, screenwriter, author of Uncaged.* "Its a skilfully-written superhero fantasy resonant with emotion. Expect to feel your soul move as the swaggering narrator
**Editorial reviews** "Its a skillfully written superhero fantasy resonant with emotion. Expect to feel your soul move as the swaggering narrator bears comic and often poignant witness to the vagaries of a life both bizarre and very like our own" *--AA Attanasio, author of the Radix tetrad and The D
It's 2013 on the eastern seaboard of the United States. The place is Atlantic City: a sweeping longitudinal metropolis rebuilt following widespread devastation in 1984. Superhumans are not only real, they're human. All too human, as Nietzsche would say. Zephyr is a "novel" alt.superhero adventure in
**Editorial reviews** "Its a skillfully written superhero fantasy resonant with emotion. Expect to feel your soul move as the swaggering narrator bears comic and often poignant witness to the vagaries of a life both bizarre and very like our own" *--AA Attanasio, author of the Radix tetrad and The D