Guns and alchemy.
Happened to waste a lot of time on Steve Englehart's website this weekend since a lot of my favorite Marvel comics that he wrote are not readily accessible for me to re-read (West Coast Avengers, the second Silver Surfer series; and yes, I've re-re-re-re-re- read his runs on Avengers, Captain America, Fantastic Four, Dr. Strange, The Incredible Hulk, and the Beast in Amazing Adventures a bazillion times, thanks for asking), where I learned some very cool news:
Tor Books is re-issuing his 1980 paperback original novel for Dell, The Point Man (which I reviewed on my LibraryThing account), and publishing a sequel, The Long Man, set in 2008 or 2009. There's nothing on Tor's website as yet, but Amazon says that The Long Man will be released on 16 March 2010.
Basically it's a pulp fictional mash-up of covert action, magick (sex- and chaos-; if The Point Man is any guide, the good guys tend to gravitate towards the sexx0r while the bad guys revel in chaos, in contrast to, say, Grant Morrison's The Invisibles) and psionics; the title character (for both books) is Max August, Vietnam vet, ex-DJ, erstwhile Marvel Zombie (TM) and, in The Long Man, "an alchemist with a gun."
Hopefully Englehart won't wait another thirty years to continue the series.
Hm: I might have to snarf up his unproduced movie script Majorca (published by Black Coat Press) and his Coyote series. It's an artistic crime that neither Marvel nor DC is handing him bags of cash to write comics for them. (And he got royally screwed out of any credit -- or royalties -- for "Heath Ledger's last movie," The Dark Knight.)
Tor Books is re-issuing his 1980 paperback original novel for Dell, The Point Man (which I reviewed on my LibraryThing account), and publishing a sequel, The Long Man, set in 2008 or 2009. There's nothing on Tor's website as yet, but Amazon says that The Long Man will be released on 16 March 2010.
Basically it's a pulp fictional mash-up of covert action, magick (sex- and chaos-; if The Point Man is any guide, the good guys tend to gravitate towards the sexx0r while the bad guys revel in chaos, in contrast to, say, Grant Morrison's The Invisibles) and psionics; the title character (for both books) is Max August, Vietnam vet, ex-DJ, erstwhile Marvel Zombie (TM) and, in The Long Man, "an alchemist with a gun."
Hopefully Englehart won't wait another thirty years to continue the series.
Hm: I might have to snarf up his unproduced movie script Majorca (published by Black Coat Press) and his Coyote series. It's an artistic crime that neither Marvel nor DC is handing him bags of cash to write comics for them. (And he got royally screwed out of any credit -- or royalties -- for "Heath Ledger's last movie," The Dark Knight.)