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Road Warrior meets Superman in this apocalyptic superhero story about a child with unimaginable power who is discovered by a dangerous cult and raised to believe he is a God.A child raised to believe he was God by a cult built on hatred, by zealots utterly confident in the purity and absolute moral authority of their religion… Enter a world ruled by The Magnificent Leader, where such a cult imposed their will on an entire world to create the ultimate theocracy. Join up and buy-in or be cast out to suffer in the toxic slums with the masses of humanity.
The story of
Napalm Lullaby begins 50 years after the cult’s subjugation of Earth, when two of the messiah’s bastard children—each with powers that are strange and difficult to control—set out to escape the slums of their birth. Determined to infiltrate the Magnificent Leader’s domed fortress of adulation, they’ll stop at nothing to kill the man responsible for the nightmare they were raised in.
The bestselling creative duo behind fan-favorite series
Death or Glory—Rick Remender and Bengal—reteam for an all-new dystopian epic in,
Napalm Lullaby.
Collects all issues #1-10.
About the author
Rick Remender is the writer and co-creator of comics such as
Fear Agent, Low, Deadly Class, Tokyo Ghost, Death or Glory, The Last Days of American Crime, Black Science, Crawl Space, A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance, Night Mary, The Sacrificers, The Scumbag, Seven to Eternity, Last Christmas, The Holy Roller, Napalm Lullaby, Grommets, and more. For Marvel he has written titles such as
Uncanny Avengers, Captain America, Uncanny X-Force, and
Venom. He's written video games such as
Bulletstorm and
Dead Space, and worked on films such as
The Iron Giant,
Anastasia, and
Titan A.E. He and his wife reside in Los Angeles raising two beautiful human monkeys.
Summary
A child raised to believe he was God by a cult built on hatred, by zealots utterly confident in the purity and absolute moral authority of their religion… Enter a world ruled by The Magnificent Leader, where such a cult imposed their will on an entire world to create the ultimate theocracy. Join up and buy-in or be cast out to suffer in the toxic slums with the masses of humanity. The story of Napalm Lullaby begins 50 years after the cult’s subjugation of Earth, when two of the messiah’s bastard children—each with powers that are strange and difficult to control—set out to escape the slums of their birth. Determined to infiltrate the Magnificent Leader’s domed fortress of adulation, they’ll stop at nothing to kill the man responsible for the nightmare they were raised in. The bestselling creative duo behind fan-favorite series Death or Glory—Rick Remender and Bengal—reteam for an all-new dystopian epic in, Napalm Lullaby. Collects issues #1-6.
