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The Machinist Part One: Malevolence
Recently paroled supervillain Nicholas McHenry wants to get back in the game, cracking bank vaults and superhero skulls. But not even twenty-four hours go by before McHenry is arrested and humiliated by the world's foremost superhero team. Framed as the mastermind of a plot to take over the world, McHenry needs to clear his name with the heroes--But between him and his retribution stands an army of his villainous brethren, all of whom want him dead.
84 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 3, 2013
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April 12, 2014
The Machinist Part One: Malevolence by Alexander Maisey is quite a different view of the future. In this world there are villians and supe4 heroes that go on fighting the villians, sometimes killing them or imprisoning them. Nicholas McHenry AKA as the Machinist is in federal prison serving a 15 year sentence. He gets out for serving his full sentence and goes and sees an old friend from the old days where the villians had a network. The remnants of the network set him up with all his old equipment and some money. He sets out to rob a bank and meets up with 2 younger heroes who thwart the robbery. McHenry decides he needs to update himself with more up to date equipment. As soon as he links into the web, everything shuts down. The prisons release their prisoners. The heroes are swamped with the bad guys. They break into his room and re arrest him and put him in a holding cell. They take away his hand. Suddenly on the television appears The Master. The super villian who arranged everything. He talke to McHenry. Thanks to Mcs work he added to it using Mcadam system. He needed Mc to hook up with his brain. Now Mc is expendable. He tells Mc he has 2 minutes to flee before the building blows up. What will the Machinist do?
May 13, 2025
As you read this book you will find the characters taking shape in your head. You will find yourself creating the battles of hero versus villain in big bold colors and action just as if it really was a graphic novel. The characters come alive and the story is engaging, once it is over you will be eager for the next installment. I was caught by surprise by how much I really enoyed it.
February 4, 2014
Tina Turner may have once argued that we don’t need another hero, but indie author Alexander Maisey’s superpowered novella The Machinist proves it. Upon his release from supervillain prison Nicholas McHenry, the tale’s eponymous figure, wants no part of going straight. Ideally he would just like to carve out a niche in the criminal underworld, maybe get a little famous at the same time.
Oh, the best laid plans of supervillains oft go astray. Without spoiling some wicked twists and turns from the book, The Machinist quickly finds himself as public enemy number one, and for the rest of the book only his intelligence, incredible inventing ability, and technologically advanced armor and weapons stand between him and complete destruction.
Even if the reader doesn’t love McHenry as a person, he’s easy to root for. Often doing the wrong thing for the right reasons and the right thing for the wrong reasons, The Machinist is complex and fun. His character arc goes from loser punchline to revenge-minded anti-hero as he shreds through this fast-paced 82-page story.
As a fan of the Bronze and Copper Age comic books, I felt The Machinist capturing those eras in sly moments of parody and praise. Maisey clearly knows his pulp stories as well, since the cover apes the famous “Spider-Man No More!” John Romita, Sr., panel. Who doesn’t love chapters titled after comic sound effects like “Pow!” and “Whoosh!”? And even though he has crafted a dark character and world filled with the real possibility of death, this adult story never loses its sense of fun and wonder.
In summing up, this novella might be titled “Malevolence,” but it delivers a pow-smash-bang! of awesome superpowered fun. I give it four Superman punches out of four.
Originally posted at http://nerdcaliber.com/world-dominanc...
Oh, the best laid plans of supervillains oft go astray. Without spoiling some wicked twists and turns from the book, The Machinist quickly finds himself as public enemy number one, and for the rest of the book only his intelligence, incredible inventing ability, and technologically advanced armor and weapons stand between him and complete destruction.
Even if the reader doesn’t love McHenry as a person, he’s easy to root for. Often doing the wrong thing for the right reasons and the right thing for the wrong reasons, The Machinist is complex and fun. His character arc goes from loser punchline to revenge-minded anti-hero as he shreds through this fast-paced 82-page story.
As a fan of the Bronze and Copper Age comic books, I felt The Machinist capturing those eras in sly moments of parody and praise. Maisey clearly knows his pulp stories as well, since the cover apes the famous “Spider-Man No More!” John Romita, Sr., panel. Who doesn’t love chapters titled after comic sound effects like “Pow!” and “Whoosh!”? And even though he has crafted a dark character and world filled with the real possibility of death, this adult story never loses its sense of fun and wonder.
In summing up, this novella might be titled “Malevolence,” but it delivers a pow-smash-bang! of awesome superpowered fun. I give it four Superman punches out of four.
Originally posted at http://nerdcaliber.com/world-dominanc...
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