Masked Mosaic Canadian Super Stories Author:Claude Lalumiere (Editor), Camille Alexa (Editor) Thrilling Tales of Canadian superheroes... and villains! 75 years ago Canadian cartoonist Joe Shuster co-created the world's premier superhero: Superman. Over the decades the genre has gone from camp to counter-culture, from pop art to postmodern, from noir to new wave. Today's superheroes feature in bestselling novels, hit TV shows, Hol... more »lywood blockbusters ... and Masked Mosaic: Canadian Super Stories. Mexican luchadores wrestle primordial evil in Vancouver ... The Intrepids battle Nazis in Nova Scotia ... A mysterious masked man rescues an adventuring heiress in a steampunk Gold Rush-era Yukon ... Zombies and ancient Viking magic are unleashed in downtown Toronto ... A godlike oracle wanders Calgary with her cyborg handler ... The fearsome Iron Shadow stalks the streets of Kingstonia ... The Coachwhip and Cat-Girl fight crime in lurid wartime Montreal
In these 24 tales Canada's most daring writers reimagine the super genre from its outer limits to its pulp origins, exploring the diverse landscape of Canadian identity and geography.
Contents:
Nocturne (2013) / E. L Chen
Canadian Blood Diamonds (2013) / Kristi Charish
Iron Justice Versus the Fiends of Evil (2013) / Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Never the Twain (2013) / Jonathan Olfert
Circe and the Gunboat (2013) / Kevin Cockle
Knife Fight (2013) / David Nickle
On-to-Ottawa (2013) / Derryl Murphy
The Secret History of the Intrepids (2013) / D. K. Latta
The Man in the Mask (2013) / Emma Faraday
A Bunny Hug for Karl (2013) / Mike Rimar
"Not a Dream! Not a Hoax! Not an Imaginary Story!" (2013) / Emma Vossen
Giant Canadian Comics (2013) / Patrick T. Goddard
Kid Wonder (2013) / A. C. Wise
Leaf Man (2013) / Rhea Rose
Octopi Bleakly Corners (2013) / David Perlmutter
The Seamstress without a Costume (2013) / Lisa Poh
The Kevlar Canoe (2013) / Marie Bilodeau
Sea and Sky (2013) / Jonathan Parrish and Rhonda Parrish
A Face in the Wind (2013) / Chantal Boudreau
The Creep (2013) / Michael S. Chong
Lonesome Charlie Johnstone's Strange Boon (2013) / ason Sharp
The Shield Maiden (2013) / Alyxandra Harvey
The Many Lives of the Xun Long (2013) / Michael Matheson
Revenge of the Iron Shadow (2013) / Jason S. Ridler