Superheroes. Celebrities. Crazed Robots. Interdimensional Assassins. And a city where even the villains get a magazine shoot. Zephyr tells the story of a cynical, smart-mouthed superhero kicking ass in a world going mad around him. โI absolutely loved this book. The author is whip smart and dissects this genre like a surgeonโ * โ Joe Gazzam, author of Uncaged The place is Atlantic City: a sweeping longitudinal metropolis rebuilt following widespread devastation in 1984. Superhumans are not only real, theyโre human. All too human, as Nietzsche would say. With his daughter getting into the business and his wife showing him the door, itโs easy to wonder if Zephyrโs life might be easier without his ever-growing powers and supervillains, extradimensional invasions and city-shaking calamities derailing his best efforts handling life in a celebrity-mad alternate universe where Manhattanโs a mutant-infested ruin and the Beatles were a superhero team.If you love Alan Mooreโs Watchmen and other classics of the adult superhero genre, youโll love Zephyr because itโs the freshest take yet. Volume 8 sees Zephyr commit to the debt he feels owed to Annie Black, promising her ghost to investigate the circumstances of her murder -- despite Annie just wanting to hurry up and get to the after life already. Zephyr's quest takes him to hostile environments, parallel worlds, World War Two Germany, and into a madman's nightmarish Big Brother house to find the maniac behind Annie's death -- except things aren't as they appear (again) and Zephyr finds himself fighting for his life and those of Twilight, Shade and Streehawk as well. Editorial reviews โItโs 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 ownโ --AA Attanasio, author of the Radix tetrad and The Dragon and the Unicorn series.โThe book deconstructs the superhero in the most entertaining, cynical and interesting waysโ --Michael Ivan Lowell, The Suns of Liberty series.โThere are so many subtle yet brilliant liberties that Hately takes with reality that makes his world pop as a unique, fun, unpredictable sand box in which he hatches super human adventures on par with anything else on the marketโ --reader Greg McCubbin.โHere is a brutally honest look at a superhero for a mature reader. A darkly humorous look at the strains and excesses of a hero who is past his primeโ --reader Keiran Jones.โI strongly recommend this book and canโt wait to read the others in this inventive, entertaining seriesโ --reader Mike Flota.*
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