Super Stories of Heroes & Villains
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards rampage through unrecorded history! Mike Mignola's Hellboy battles the fiendish Nuckelavee! Can Camille Alexa's Pinktastic prevent the end of the world? Will Jonathan Lethem's Dystopianist cause the end of the world?
In these pages, you'll find the exploits, machinations, and epic mêlées of these superpowered aliens, undead crusaders, costumed crime fighters, unholy cabals, Amazon warriors, demon hunters, cyberpunk luchadores, nefarious megalomaniacs, daredevil sidekicks, atavistic avatars, adventuring aviators, gunslinging outlaws, love-struck adversaries, and supernatural detectives.
In these twenty-eight astounding Super Stories, join larger-than-life heroes and villains in the never-ending battle of good versus evil!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Editor Lalumi re has put together an impressive best-of anthology for modern superhero fiction, with works from SF royalty like George R.R. Martin and Kelly Link, hit comics creators Kurt Busiek and Mike Mignola, and wonderful but lesser-known writers. The satisfying and varied stories range from J. Robert Lennon's deeply sad "The Rememberer," about a superpowered storyteller who can never forget, to Benjamin Rosenbaum's brilliant and lighthearted "The Death Trap of Dr. Nefario," in which a familiar crime-fighter calls his therapist from a routine death trap. Also of note are Paul Di Filippo's delightful "The Jackdaw's Last Case," starring Franz Kafka as a superhero, and Busiek's hilariously cynical "Clash of Titans (A New York Romance)," about a marketing man encouraging the rivalry between a superhero and his villainous ex-girlfriend to increase tourism. There are a few missteps: Gene Wolfe's "The Detective of Dreams" is out of place, and Rachel Pollack's Wonder Woman inspired "Burning Sky" detours so far into sexual fantasy that it entirely loses the plot. Even so, this is by far the best superhero anthology around, and a must-read for comic book fans.
