Yesterday, I told you about StarWarp Concepts’ appearance this coming weekend at the second annual Pow Con, being held at the Brooklyn Expo Center. We’ll be selling copies of our in-print titles, but in addition to that—since we’ve luckily been assigned an endcap booth (A9!) at the corner of two aisles, which means we’ll have two tables—I’ll be offering some of my non-SWC work, which skews more toward mainstream audiences than the adventures of the soul-stealing succubus Lorelei or teen Goth adventuress Pandora Zwieback:
X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy: Three original novels that I wrote between 2000 and 2002, published by BP Books. In them, the super-villains Doctor Doom (the Fantastic Four’s #1 enemy), Magneto (the X-Men’s #1), and the Red Skull each get their hands on the Cosmic Cube, a wish-box device that changes reality to suit the desires of its possessor. If you’re a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you’re more familiar with its movie name: the Tesseract, one of the Infinity Stones introduced in Captain America: The First Avenger and last seen in Avengers: Endgame.
Sunn: Another ibooks, inc. release—this one from 2003—it’s a young adult graphic novel about a teen whose father is a Superman-like hero. When Dad is injured battling a super-villain, his son creates his own super-costume identity as Sunn. This one-off origin story features art by Kevin Lau (Vampi, Iron Fist: The Return of K’un Lun) and comic-art legend Alex Nino (Batman Black and White, The Fury of Firestorm).
Untold Tales of Spider-Man: An anthology published by Berkley Books in 1998, this collection of original Spidey adventures includes “The Ballad of Fancy Dan,” a character-driven short story written by Ken Grobe and me about one of Spidey’s old enemies, a member of the non-powered group of thugs called the Enforcers.
Best New Zombie Tales 2: Another anthology, this one from Books of the Dead Press, it includes my story “Laundry Day,” about a group of people trapped in a Laundromat at the start of a zombie apocalypse. A standard-enough setup, perhaps, but reviewers were surprised by the twist it took at the end. If you’re a fan of stuff like The Walking Dead, you should definitely give it a read.
Supplies of the non-SWC titles are limited, and they’re not available through the SWC webstore, so be sure to pick ’em up at Pow! Con while you get the chance.
For more information on the convention, visit the Pow Con website.
