January 6, 2023
Laz is a side-stepper: a teen with the incredible power to jump his consciousness to alternate versions of himself in parallel worlds. All his life, there was no mistake that a little side-stepping couldn’t fix. Until Laz wakes up one day in a cloning facility on a seemingly abandoned Earth. Laz finds himself surrounded by hundreds of other clones, all dead, and quickly realizes that he too must be a clone of his original self. Laz has no idea what happened to the world he remembers as vibrant and bustling only yesterday, and he struggles to survive in the barren […]
January 6, 2023
Some people dream of happily ever after, but all 17-year-old Josh Roberts wants is a roof over his head and for his little brother to be safe. Josh’s father has gone missing without a trace. Now Josh and his 9-year-old brother, Twig, are stuck living with Gran in her trailer. Problem is, Gran didn’t ask to take care of any kids, and she’s threatening to call Social Services unless Josh can find his dad. After paying off Gran to take in his little brother, Josh risks truancy and getting kicked off his basketball team to take to the streets and […]
January 6, 2023
Nate Silva has enough to deal with at home, with a house full of unwanted relatives and the scars from his last encounters with the Resurrection Church of the Ancient Gods keeping him up at night, so there is no way he is looking west, no matter who warns him. But before he knows it, Nate finds himself press-ganged into service on Sorcerer, the airship that’s haunted his dreams since the last midnight games, and quickly discovers its terrifying secrets. Now Nate is headed just where he doesn’t want to go, to the Pacific Ocean, where a Great Old One, […]
January 6, 2023
From the artist of Marvel Comics’ daredevil Marco Checchetto, comes a thrilling new adventure! Where were you when the cloud arrived? Where were you when the world changed forever? Where were you when people started dying? It’s at the limits between science fiction, action and horror. This graphic novel is gritty, with zombies and hard choices, heartbreak and tortured, war-weary characters. Note that there’s some language and graphic violence–if it was a movie, it’d be hard to escape an R rating, or a “not for people under 17.” Up to you, but consider yourself warned. A mysterious cloud spreads across […]
December 2, 2022
There’s plenty of tension and gore in this supernatural thriller, which is lightened up by an on-again/off-again pursual of romance between the lead characters. The story features a family of monster exterminators (headed by co-lead Liam, age 18) and a family in need of monster exterminators (featuring Olivia, age 18). The monster-chasers eliminate vampires, ghosts, witches, ghouls, indigos, wendigos and more, and come supplied with enough spook-demobilizing equipment and know-how to impress James Bond. The writing pulls you right along; it’s good enough to override some of the less believable aspects of the plot. For example, Olivia’s willingness to have […]