Warren Hately

It's 2012 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 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 an 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 Phase Three, Zephyr hunts his mother's killer, Yoko Ono, first to Japan and then to a parallel Earth where he unwittingly learns more about the threat of The Twelve and meets the legendary Titanium Girl, now kicking ass with a new group of heroes. Meanwhile, he faces the threat of the Amari and the consequences of his relationship with Seeker.

Zephyr: Phase Three

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. "I absolutely loved this book. The author is whip smart and dissects this genre like a surgeon" - Joe Gazzam, author of UncagedThe 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.With his daughter getting into the business and his wife showing him the door, it's easy to wonder if Zephyr's 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 Manhattan's a mutant-infested ruin and the Beatles were a superhero team.If you love Alan Moore's Watchmen and other classics of the adult superhero genre, you'll love Zephyr because it's the freshest take yet.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 city's filthy underbelly and it's 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.Editorial reviews"It's 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."The book deconstructs the superhero in the most entertaining, cynical and interesting ways" --Michael Ivan Lowell, The Suns of Liberty series."There 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 market" --reader Greg McCubbin."Here 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 prime" --reader Keiran Jones."I strongly recommend this book and can't wait to read the others in this inventive, entertaining series" --reader Mike Flota.

Zephyr VI

Cheyanne Young

Drew Hayes

Jim Zoetewey

Landon Porter

Marion G. Harmon

Scott Bachmann

Frank Byrns

Hydrargentium

Michael Ivan Lowell

T. Mike McCurley

R. J. Ross

The Pen & Cape Society, in conjunction with Local Hero Press, is proud to present The Good Fight, an anthology of superhero fiction from some of the best authors working in the genre. Collected within this volume are stories by Scott Bachmann, Frank Byrns, Marion Harmon, Warren Hately, Drew Hayes, Ian Thomas Healy, Hydrargentium, Michael Ivan Lowell, T. Mike McCurley, Landon Porter, R. J. Ross, Cheyanne Young, and Jim Zoetewey. After enjoying the stories in The Good Fight, please be sure to check out the works of the individual authors, because they're just super!

The Good Fight

Five years after the Rise of the Furies, the walking dead are dying out. Bites don't infect . . . but anyone who dies, turns.Skilled outdoorsman Tom Vanicek wants a future for the two children he's protected so fiercely through five years of living hell.When rumors reach them about reconstruction efforts in the decaying ruins of Columbus, Ohio, the family make the dangerous overland trek for the chance to begin again.But political alliances, secret factions, doomsday cultists, and other ruthless survivors mean life in a broken city of more than 60,000 traumatized and desperate souls may prove even more dangerous than surviving in the wild."The freshest take on the genre in years - and without losing anything cool" - advanced reader review"Like Game of Thrones in the zombie apocalypse" - advanced reader review Fans of The Walking Dead and George A Romero will love After the Apocalypse because it's a fresh new take on the zompoc genre looking at the struggles to rebuild society when daily life can turn deadly any moment. Click to buy.

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