The First Trilogy of
Van Allen Plexico’s Superhero Novel Series—At Last in a One-Volume Edition!
(August 8, 2012) White Rocket Books proudly announces the
release in trade paperback format of Van
Allen Plexico’s SENTINELS: THE GRAND DESIGN, a one-volume collection of the
first three novels in the famed cosmic superhero saga!
Weighing in at a whopping 624 pages and with a stunning
painted cover by celebrated artist Mitch
Foust, the “Grand Design” Omnibus also features no fewer than fifteen full-page
interior illustrations by series artist Chris
Kohler.
The book contains all three volumes of the first Sentinels
trilogy (When Strikes the Warlord, A
Distant Star, and Apocalypse Rising)
in their entirety, introducing the heroes and villains (and those in between)
that make up this fascinating and compelling superhero universe.
What begins as an attempted abduction of a young student
from her college campus quickly spirals out to engulf a diverse collection of
individuals, including billionaire inventor and hero-wannabe Esro Brachis,
beloved national savior (and amnesiac) Ultraa, wisecracking daredevil Damon “Cavalier”
Sinclair, and mysterious alien powerhouse Vanadium. Can this motley crew come together as a team
in time to save the Earth from conquest or destruction?
Through the eyes of central character Lyn Li, a
Chinese-American teen that possesses amazing electromagnetic powers, we
encounter aliens and androids, geniuses and demigods, megalomaniacal
arch-villains, space-borne monsters, and everything else one would expect from
a classic Bronze-Age comic series—in New Pulp novel form!
“For most of my life I’ve loved the concept of a superhero
team made up of very distinct individuals who barely get along with one
another,” says author Van Allen Plexico. “The fun comes in watching them encounter
mind-blowing menaces and have to find a way—some way!—to work together long
enough to miraculously save the day.
Throw in the ability that a novel series provides, to allow characters
to really change and grow (and even die!) along the way, and you get what I
strongly believe is a saga every superhero comics fan will love. And with Chris
Kohler illustrating the whole thing, you can’t go wrong!”
Plexico’s Sentinels
series has been praised by Kirkus
Reviews for offering “a fresh take on the superhero theme,” and by Pulp Fiction Reviews as “spectacular,
action-packed, imaginative and wonderful.” Noted superhero novelist Ian Thomas Healy called them “Kirbyesque,” describing Volume One as
“the first book that successfully translates the feel of a comic book into prose.”
White Rocket Books
is a leader in the New Pulp movement, publishing exciting action and adventure
novels and anthologies since 2005, in both traditional and electronic
formats. White Rocket books have hit
the Amazon.com Top 15-by-Genre and have garnered praise from everyone from
Marvel Comics Vice-President Tom Brevoort to Kirkus Reviews.
On sale as of August 8, 2012, SENTINELS: THE GRAND DESIGN (Omnibus) is a $21.95, 6x9 format trade
paperback from White Rocket Books. (The
individual novels are already available as $2.99 e-books for Kindle and other
e-readers.)
624 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-98413-925-5 (6x9” Trade Paperback;
15 full-page illustrations)