- In Ted
Lazaris's first fantasy
adventure novel, Dragonman, the Adventures of Luke Starr, the reader
was introduced to the likeable Luke and his seemingly normal way of
life growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Luke was portrayed as a quiet,
average kid plagued by all the inherent problems of the typical
American teen: dealing with a crush on a girl he's too shy to approach,
pesky sisters constantly poking their noses into his business, bullies
at school and exams to study for.
- But Luke, readers soon discovered,
was burdened by a far greater weight than any of his peers, as he
struggled to come to terms with his birthright as The Chosen One,
savior of the distant world of Spellville. Not only that, but, like
hapless Peter Parker forced to juggle his complex life as Spider-Man
while pursuing his love interest and his not-always-easy career, Luke
had to learn to harness the enormous powers of Dragonman, his super
alter-ego, a persona that regrettably did not come with an instruction
manual. In this second, action comic-like installment, Dragonman and
the Poseidon Encounter, Luke seems to have come to terms with his
legacy and appears well in control of his super powers--which he will
be called upon to use this time around to save the world from an evil
demon who seeks to claim the souls of every human being on earth.
- The
mood of impending danger is set from the very first page, when author
Ted Lazaris takes off his gloves to delivering a knock-out of an
opening scene: Five-year-old Bobby Blakely, running downstairs on the
morning of his birthday, finds not the hoped for brand new bicycle as a
gift, but rather an enormous blue whale that has somehow "washed up" in
the small lake on his parent's isolated farm. While many consider the
whale's appearance a hoax, others believe it to be a sign of impending
Biblical doom. And it is enough to rouse Luke's suspicions that worse
is about to happen--which it does. In a pace that never flags, Poseidon
Encounter unfolds in a complex thread of differing tales, from an
old-fashioned detective murder mystery to a science fiction fantasy,
all neatly stitched together by an intriguing cast of characters, both
good and evil and not-exactly-as-they-seem. An imaginative writer,
Lazaris blends magic, mysticism, religion and the fast-paced action of
the comic book world into a book that fans of the first Dragonman tale
will find hard to put down. Home
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