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#20 - "Sacrifice"
Feathers drifted across the sky, the final, black blossom of a hideous flower. A sudden crack of sound erupted, shattering glass and tearing the concrete up from the ground in shattered chunks as Anna Romanova flew through the city, her mouth open in a silent scream and her wings beating in slow, powerful arcs. She turned, twisting upwards and slamming her palms down hard together. From deep within an energy ball of sickly black manifested beneath the pale of the flesh, twisting in unstable patterns before launching upwards into the skies above.
The blast connected with Manly’s upper chest, his body erupted in fire and smoke. Above him the hideous dragon writhed in agony, howling like a wounded dog. Romanova dived forwards, the flames of her dark power twisting in ever circling patterns of obscurity over her head like some hideous and blasphemous halo. She fired into the smoke; energy blasting from her palms again and again, rhythmically puncturing the twisting veil and triggering further explosions from within.
The dragon screamed, its jaws frothing with rage as wave after wave of energy blistered against the bruised flesh of its host. Drawing desperate breaths into her tired lungs, Romanova continued her assault for another minute before wilting, her trembling hands falling to her sides.
Agonising seconds passed, the air filled with the thunder of both her heartbeat and the wounded dragons. Slowly the smoke cleared and, from its very centre, the scarred shape of Michael Manly burst forth, his chest covered in wounds and his face bleeding as the tongues of fiery ether that surrounded her twisted across the sky, converging into the body of the great dragon.
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Former presenter of KGPC's The Manly Side, Michael Manly is the unwilling recipient of the late Henry Burke's legacy, a boon originally intended for the late playboy millionaire, Bruce Todd. Desolate and alone within a city that once worshipped him, Manly struggles to reconcile his life as both human being and superhuman. The first of the new age of superheroes, his only companions are the former English supervillains Charlie and Shirley Winters.
Forced from his position as the city's favourite celebrity talkshow host by PCN's Regina Darling and haunted by the image of the Imperial Magistrate's alternative Bruce Todd, Manly must now discover what it means to Burke's successor and what the true secrets of his own powers really are.
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by Jacob Milnestein
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#1 - "Restoration"
#2 - "In Darkest Despair" (Night And Day Act I)
#3 - "Intervention" (Night And Day Act II)
#4 - "Frail" (Night And Day Act III)
#5 - "Millennium Man's Pal, Jim Finnegan"
#6 - "Discussion II"
#7 - "Home Of The Brave" (A Nation Of Immigrants Act I)
#8 - "...And Justice For All" (A Nation Of Immigrants Act II)
#9 - "Born On The 11th Of September/Discussion IV" (A Nation Of Immigrants Act III)
#10 - "Once Upon A Time In Australia And England..." (Siege Engine Act I)
#11 - "Albion Resurgent" (Siege Engine Act II)
#12 - "The Killing Moon" (Siege Engine Act III)
#13 - "The House That Abdul Built"
#14 - "Regina Darling" (Millenial Boy Act I)
#15 - "Tracy Newman" (Millenial Boy Act II)
#16 - "Julia Squire" (Millenial Boy Act III)
#17 - "The People With No Name" (Mirrennium Man DX Act I)
#18 - "Wind And Thunder" (Mirrennium Man DX Act II)
#19 - "Shift Into Turbo" (Mirrennium Man DX Act III)
#20 - "Overlap" (The Once And Future Buddha Act I)
#21 - "Connected" (The Once And Future Buddha Act II)
#22 - "Painted Black/Game Of Death" (The Once And Future Buddha Act III)
#23 - "Defeated Hearts"
#24 - "Sarifice"
One-Shots & Limited Series
"The Need for Speed"by Reay Jespersen
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