48 Hours...The Darker Mask descends on you!

Tor/Macmillan announces coming of THE DARKER MASK August 18, 2008. See the San Diego Comic Con interview with Prof. Christopher A. Chambers and Gary Phillips at www.comicon.com/pulse . Available at bookstores and online. Booclubs contact alexis.saarela@tor.com
The Darker Mask, Christopher Chambers and Gary Phillips, (Tor, 2008) ISBN-13: 978-0765318503 (hardcover), 978-0765318510 (trade paper) Featuring original artwork by Marvel, DC/Vertigo and Newsday illustrators Sean Wang, Shawn Martinbrough, Jeff Fisher and Brian Hurtt. Original stories by Walter Mosley, Tananarive Due, Lorenzo "Sleepers" Carcaterra, Alexandra Sokoloff, "LA" Banks, Naomi Hirahara, Mat Johnson, Victor LaValle, Reed Farrel Coleman, Peter Speigelman, Ann Nocenti, the late Jerry Rodriguez, Chambers & Phillips

Can forgotten, ignored, reviled or weak people like heroin addicts, tattoo artists, lonely wrinkled old women, Darfur refugees or maids be Superheroes? Are Superheroes always in costume, always buff? Always conflicted rich white boys or cheerleaders? Aw, you know the answer...

"Why’re you reading this blurb? Carcaterra, Mosley, tough, juicy stories... What else you need? This is the good stuff. Pay for the damn thing already."--Brad Meltzer New York Times bestselling suspense and graphic novel author

"This collection of smart and raw stories out marvels Marvel and makes me want to strip down to my inner tights. “The Darker Mask” cuts superhero mythology to the bone; leaving neither the characters nor the reader invulnerable to its mesmerizing power."
--Tom Fontana, Emmy-winning Writer/Producer of HBO's "Oz," NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street," and NBC's new hit "The Philanthropist."

"Intriguing, entertaining and cutting edge!"
--Zane, New York Times bestselling author

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An original. Nuff said. The beginnings of American fiction, from literature to genre fiction. Crime stories...war...history...interracial sex. Yep. You heard me. Interracial sex. Look, don't let the movies, from 1939 to Daniel Day-Lewis take your mind away from the seminal nature of this novel by James Fennimore Cooper. It was the first American adventure story. Magua, the Huron war captain, was the model for all American serial killers, murderous criminals, etc. And yes, a cheezy love story set against the backdrop of the cruel French & Indian War. Gone With The Wind was bullsh*t compared to this.
It was also the beginnings of American sensationalism and market to sell books. The first entertainment stereotypical inklings of the bad Indian as savage...and "good" Indian as stoic and kind, bursts forth in the plot and in Cooper's publisher's advertisements. Cooper was literally the first American author to go on book tour.
By the way, the last of the Mohicans was Uncas. "Hawkeye" was Natty Bumpo, the white dude. Too often in the movies his character's the star, he gets the girl. Nope, it was Uncas. Please, read this classic. In it you will see the beginnings of everything from Hemingway to Zane. No lie...