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"It's 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 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 series favorably compared to Alan Moore's 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 postliterary 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.

In Volume 5, Zephyr belatedly tracks down Loren aka Seeker to Atlantic City's grimy barrio and uncovers a sinister plot involving an addictive heroin-derivative that bestows super powers, inadvertently linked to Twilight's growing criminal empire. Meanwhile, masks across Atlantic City and the planet start dropping out of public life as British super Sting preaches spiritual Ascension in Afghanistan. Zephyr investigates as part of his search for the deadly and elusive Matrioshka, and as usual, finds more than he expects.

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  • Print Length: 332 Pages
  • File Size: 3,806 KB

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