Heroes of Global Warming

By Robert Jeschonek

The world's hottest hero has gone rogue! In an age of global warming, super-heated hero Skillet looks like a lukewarm loser. But when his teammates, the Castigators, turn their backs on him, he turns the Castigators into prey. Let the hunt begin! Skillet becomes public enemy number one as he rounds up his former allies. But the secret plan behind his hunt might just save the world. The invention of evil genius Brain Fart could turn back the clock on global warming by melting down the high-powered do-gooders. Can Skillet capture the last of the heroes needed to charge the climate change reverser? Or will an out-for-blood super-hero hit squad cook his goose first? The hope of the future explodes in a fight to the death between the caped-and-cowled warriors of a doomed generation.

Don't miss this action-packed super-hero tale with a difference, available here as an e-book for the first time. Welcome to the latest shocker from Robert T. Jeschonek, whose work for DC Comics laid the foundation for this thrilling new adventure.

Reviews

"Robert Jeschonek is the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman--his fiction is cutting edge, original, and pulsing with dark and fantastical life. His stories suck me in and refuse to let me go until the last page, even as his characters are busy stealing my heart." – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of The Maker's Song series and Black Dust Mambo

Robert T. Jeschonek "sees the world like no one else sees it, and makes incredibly witty, incisive stories out of that skewed worldview." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Starship series

Contents
Short story plus novel preview

About the Author

Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW have published his work. His work appeared in three volumes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, winning the grand prize in Volume VI. His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, is due July 11, 2011 from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Jeschonek
• Release date: Mar 24, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458151278

Book preview

Heroes of Global Warming

HEROES OF GLOBAL WARMING

A SUPERHERO TALE

ROBERT JESCHONEK

Blastoff Books

CONTENTS

Also by Robert Jeschonek

Heroes of Global Warming

About the Author

Special Preview: Forced Retirement

HEROES OF GLOBAL WARMING

Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek

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Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by Ben Baldwin

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Published in March 2011 by arrangement with the author.

All rights reserved by the author.

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ALSO BY ROBERT JESCHONEK

A Matter of Size

Forced Betrayal

Forced Retirement

Forced Partnership

Heroes of Global Warming

Not-So-Fortunate Son

Seven Comic Book Scripts Volume One

Seven Comic Book Scripts Volume Two

Seven Comic Book Scripts Volume Three

Six Superhero Stories Volume One

The Wife Who Never Was

HEROES OF GLOBAL WARMING

Freeze-Dry, Floater, and Bottlenose catch up with me near the Times Square Sea, itching to bring me in after what I did to their buddy, Sunblock. Never mind that I used to be their buddy, too, a long time ago. Back before I went from being a superhero...

...to kicking superheroes' asses. Not that Freeze-Dry and his pals think they're the ones about to take a beating. Not when they've got me outnumbered three to one like this.

Stand down, Skillet! Freeze-Dry skates up on an elevated track of frozen water vapor, ten feet above the lapping waves of Times Square Sea. The track expands forward as he skates, responding to his freeze-inducing powers. I won't tell you twice!

You heard the man! Floater swoops up like a deflating balloon and holds steady at twenty feet away from me, drifting past the ruined buildings of the Square on the late morning air currents. His voice sounds like a cartoon chipmunk's, like he's just sucked a lungful of helium. Don't make us hurt you.

Bottlenose, who's half man, half dolphin, spins up from the water below and triggers his antigravity harness, joining the rest of us hovering in midair. His gleaming gray head bobs as he lets loose