VOLUME 8 IN THE GREATEST SUPERHERO NOVEL SERIES OF ALL! With 5 new full-page illustrations and cover art by series artist Chris Kohler!
Masquerading as the heroic "Law," the arch-villain known as the Black Terror has seized control of a vast starfleet and set out to conquer the mighty Kur-Bai Empire.
Trapped on opposite sides of a galactic civil war, Esro and Mondrian fight alongside the Elites, Shiva battles inner demons, and a weakened Vanadium finds himself held captive, while the Red Star pursues his own mysterious agenda.
Now, as war engulfs the galaxy, Pulsar and Wendy must decide on whose side they will fight. Will they join with Earth's alien foes, or will they trust their greatest enemy, even as he launches... THE DARK CRUSADE!
"Stellar characterization, larger-than-life stories, and, most-importantly, superheroes who aren't ashamed to act heroic... No one, either in comics or prose, is doing superheroes better than Van Allen Plexico." -Percival Constantine, author of the Vanguard series
"Grandiose storytelling done with gusto and panache." --Ron Fortier, Pulp Fiction Reviews
"Nobody--not even Abnett and Lanning-- is doing cosmic superheroes as well as Van Allen Plexico is doing them. Period." --Barry Reese, creator of the Rook
The Sentinels Superhero novel series:
1. When Strikes the Warlord
2. A Distant Star
3. Apocalypse Rising
4. The Shiva Advent
5. Worldmind
6. Stellarax
7. Metalgod
8. The Dark Crusade
9. Vendetta (coming in 2017)
About the Author: Van Allen Plexico writes and edits New Pulp, science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction analysis and commentary for a variety of print and online publishers. He won the 2015 Pulp Factory Award for "Novel of the Year" for Legion III: Kings of Oblivion, the 2015 Pulp Factory Award for "Anthology of the Year" for Pride of the Mohicans, and the 2012 PulpArk Award for "Best New Pulp Character." He is author of the Shattering space opera series, Lucian, Baranak, and the groundbreaking and #1 New Pulp Best-Selling Sentinels series-the first ongoing, multi-volume cosmic superhero saga in prose form.
