This world is hard, it's bleak, it's unsure, it is filled with risk. Too bad it's not as easy to solve the problem as it is to label it. 'The problem.' 'After San Francisco.' 'Freak hunting.' It's that easy to turn the struggle for persistence into catchphrases. Ordnance that is designed, specifically, to deal with the problem.įunny. An all-electronic handgun that can fire a four-shot burst in just 1/500 of a second. Regarding my physical endurance, science is my guardian angel.

A reason I've survived.Īctually, a couple of reasons depending on what kind of survival you're talking about. I mean: in the world we live, with what I do, there's a reason I've remained among the living. I don't mean that with the cheap, feel-good populist existentialism daytime TV talk show hosts love to hand out: You're alive because even though you eat too much fast food and can't point to your own state capital on a map, we're all really unique and individual and speciablah, blah, blah. Dwayne McDuffie, writer/creator of Static Shock John Ridley's a genius, and his readers are in for a treat.' 'Sophisticated cop drama crossed with a postmodern take on the fondly remembered Marvel comics of your childhood. Tananarive Due, author of My Soul to Keep and The Living Blood With sure-handed action and characters real enough to breathe on you, this is a thriller that delivers.' 'As both a screenwriter and a novelist, Ridley is one of the most versatile writers in the business. Steven Barnes, author of Lion's Blood and Zulu Heart Recalling the work of Alan Moore or Stan Lee, with dollops of Norman Spinrad and Walter Mosley, Ridley's near-future adventure successfully treads the same path so well established by The Watchman and The Dark Knight- and takes it a step further.'

'Explosive, exhilarating, noirishly fun, slyly comic, and wound as tight as piano wire. Roger Stern, New York Times bestselling author of The Death and Life of Superman Soledad O'Roark just may be the first great antihero of the twenty-first century-in more ways than one.' absolutely riveting! I was hooked from the very first page.

'His prose is tough and vivid, his characters ruthless, hard-boiled and beset by personal demons.

It continues Ridley's tradition of lean, athletic prose intermixed with challenging new genres.' University City Review (West Philadelphia, PA) 'Great beginning to an exciting series and I can't wait for a sequel.' A science fiction story unlike any you've ever read before.' A fast, exciting read which will keep you in suspense until the very last page. explosive, exhilarating, packed with action but also with morality and thoughtfulness.' 'Reads like a graphic novel without the pictures.'

MARVEL'S VOICES by John Ridley