Everyone deserves a second chance! Once hailed as saviors, the heroes of yesterday have been rejected and forgotten by the public, and have hidden out in a secret fortress near the North Pole for decades.But when the Professor–a mysterious scientist who built the fortress–is kidnapped by an evil rival, a young boy rallies the monsters, robots, and caped wonders to once again become the heroes of the Atomic Legion!Author Mike Richardson and artist Bruce Zick tell a tale of heroes reborn that is peppered with nods to the pop-culture icons of, well, ALL of pop-culture! Half the fun of reading this book is spotting the references to your favorite comic-book, movie, and literary characters!
About Artists & Writers:
Mike Richardson is the president and founder of Dark Horse Comics, the award-winning international publishing house he founded in 1986. He is also the president of Dark Horse Entertainment, for which he has produced numerous projects for film and television.In addition to producing films such as R.I.P.D., Hellboy, and Mystery Men, he has also produced films based on several of his own creations, including The Mask and Timecop. Richardson owns a successful pop-culture retail chain, Things From Another World, with stores stretching from Universal’s CityWalk in Los Angeles to his hometown in Milwaukie, Oregon.Richardson has written numerous graphic novels and comics series, as well as Comics: Between the Panels and Blast Off!, two critically acclaimed books about pop culture.