"Riveting...a multipart zombies-versus-superheroes franchise that seems
destined for the big screen." --LA Weekly on the Ex-Heroes series
When he's awake, George Bailey is just an ordinary man. Five days a week
he coaxes his old Hyundai to life, curses the Los Angeles traffic, and
clocks in at his job as a handyman at the local college.
But when he sleeps, George dreams of something more.
George dreams of flying. He dreams of fighting monsters. He dreams of a
man made of pure lightning, an armored robot, a giant in an army
uniform, a beautiful woman who moves like a ninja.
Then one day as he's walking from one fix-it job to the next, a pale
girl in a wheelchair tells George of another world, one in which
civilization fell to a plague that animates the dead--and in which
George is no longer a glorified janitor but one of humanity's last
heroes.
Her tale sounds like madness, of course. But as George's dreams and his
waking life begin bleeding together, he starts to wonder--which is the
real world, and which is just fantasy?