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Deceptor a vigilante is warped under his own deceptional methodology followed by a Mysterious Gang member named The White Mafia, who’s delusional and deceptional skills are a lot like the Deceptor. Deceptor must return to reveal the secrets behind The White Mafia and his traits to clear his glorious adventures from stains of the White Mafia.

The 1st Volume was nominated for Goodreads choice award 2020

The 1st Volume was Rank 21 in Steampunk Young Adult 2021

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Deceptor a vigilante is warped under his own deception, through a mystery, A mystery that goes on deluding further and further, through a clue, A Business man who revives Ashley Wilson’s strategic plan, further spinning the web of deceptions. Amrita and Neel find out the Mystery behind mysteries, Not knowing a Bigger illusion warps Deceptor.

The 1st Volume was Nominated for Goodreads choice Award 2020

The 1st Volume was Rank 21 in Steampunk Young Adult Fiction 2021

Available in Amazon, Books Wagon, Print on Demand Barnes & Noble, Wallmart and stores near you

Deceptor a vigilante to fight a huge challenge that is similar to what he can do. Similar to his might and power. A creature as wrathful as Deceptor himself. Pulled off by Ashley Wilson the arch nemesis of Deceptor. Self Experiments on his own Atoms, protons, electrons and Nutrons with Crystal technology. Becomes a who is a non-existent force as the Deceptor. A being who exist but doesn’t exist tackles the Deceptor. The Fantasy Ride of a Vigilante takes the next dimension due to scientific experiment.

The first Volume was Nominated for Goodreads Choice Award 2020

The first Volume was Rank 21 in Steampunk Readers, Young Adult Fiction Readers 2021

Launched also as Comic Book in 2023

Niche Universe Recognition

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An Indian Superhero Spin off. A Young Man Hailing from a family of Illusionist and Magicians Travels all around thee globe and learns different arts of Deception Delusion and Illusions from all over the world. Imparting great knowledge and fights for Greater Good. Becomes a Superhero He assumes different disguises in different time periods. An Epic Fantasy of a Protagonist with breathtaking Delusional abilities but living a simple life with inner calmness.

Nominated for Goodreads Choice Award 2020

Rank 21 in Steampunk Readers, Young Adult Fiction Readers 2021

Launched also as Comic Book in 2023

Niche Universe Recognition

Available in Amazon, Books Wagon Print on demand at Barnes & Noble, Wallmart & stores near you.

Over the past few years, and especially since the recent movie, The Backrooms have become the go-to for liminal spaces and liminal horror. However, there is a 1964 story that gets at the same fears, while offering some insight where they come from. The parlance and vocabulary are a relic of their time and feel odd at times, but the story remains readily accessible.

An unnamed protagonist (referred to only as “he”) lives a comfortable life in a nice city, but is spending beyond his means. He pays with “charge” (aka credit card) and feels “giddy with self-indulgence” as he buys “fancy groceries,” several books, and then tosses a coin to decide on his last stop in the shopping a gallery: a tailor for a new suit or the top floor cafe for a treat.

It ends up being the treat, so up he goes, enjoys that dessert (baklava) and then starts the what the title suggest: his descent back down. He is so familiar with escalators in this store, referred to as “Underwoods,” that he reads one of his new books as he goes down. When he makes it to each landing, he walks over to the next section of escalator without looking up from the book he is so enthralled in…

It’s only when he’s on page 55 that something feels odd… he’s on another landing… he feels he reads roughly a page per minute, so has he been on the escalator for nearly an hour? And where is everyone? What floor is he on?

This is only page 4 of the edition I read and the remaining 10 pages are the liminal horror. I found it surprisingly well done for a time when the concept was far from what it is today. I haven’t read into the biography and works of author Thomas M. Disch, but he did have much to draw from in his time. Folk tales of impossible paths in the forest, ancient castles, even Lovecraft who described impossible (albeit alien) places. The interesting thing here is that Disch puts all that into into a modern shopping center. Given the time of writing, 1964, a 15-story shopping gallery with full escalator access was a novelty. So much like the famous “backrooms” image that took empty commercial space and made it into a nightmare with a short paragraph, here we have 14 pages of initially lively commercial space that inexplicably empties.

Why? When exactly? In liminal horror fashion, that’s quite never answered, but certainly open to discussion and I’ll start!

Commercial spaces are huge and impersonal, almost purely transactional, so the man fell behind. He lives alone, so has lack of social connection. On page 1 he has a credit card bill for the very store he’s going to, but ignores it for more shopping, so has racked up debt. His narration barely mentions anyone else at the shopping gallery, aka Underwoods, so he’s totally focuses on material goods.

We’re well into the 2020s and those are still very real problems people face and many are overwhelmed by them as they become too hard to manage and fall out of our control.

Has a very established character that you like ever taken a very unexpected turn? Well...

I recently read the excellent 6-part series Punisher: Soviet. It ran from November 2019 to March 2020, aka right until the time the world seemed to turn upside down. And it seems oddly fitting given what the Punisher does in this series.

A quick spoiler free recap: gangsters are dropping dead in NYC but it's not the Punisher's doing even though organized crime thinks it is. After doing some digging (and going past another pile of bodies he didn't create), the Punisher meets Valery Stepanovich. And this is where the story gets interesting. It's not entirely unpredictable, Valery is even made out to be the "Russian Punisher" on the cover art of the first issue (see pic), but his backstory is very well fleshed out. Thus, the execution and storytelling, I felt, makes him more than just "Punisher Russian = Valery."

Like Frank Castle, the Punisher, Valery is a disgruntled veteran who's life of service in Afghanistan went unrewarded while corrupt high level officers made bank... and led to the death of Valery's paratrooper unit. He uncovered this years later and so started his vigilantism. The story of the Soviet-Afghan War gets the better part of issue #3 as Valery recounts his past and it's a great mix of patriotism, anger, and understanding.

Since this is spoiler-free, I won't spoil the details, but this lengthy recap does factor into the main story and the Punisher's final action in this series --- minor spoiler, but it's THE BIG CHANGE that round of the Punisher's arc here --- and that's NOT killing which goes against his entire ethos, but it's an action influenced by Valery.

I haven't followed The Punisher in a long time, but this was a very welcome read and break from screenplays. The visual aspect of comics makes them cinematic and the pacing is very sharp. Informatibe for screenwriters.

A highly recommended read for gritty action fans.

“BOYS OF THE BURNING SKY” tells the untold story of VMF-322, my father’s fighter squadron of 32 F4U Corsairs during the Battle of Okinawa, 81 years ago, and his sister squadrons.

It goes beyond the CAS and CAP missions from Kadena Airfield, and explores the brotherhood of young USMC aviators from the runways of NAS Pensacola to the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War .

This is their story.

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