Superhero Graphic Novels & Stories

He asks looking at me intently. “Superheroes are mad up but yeah whatever.” I say and he smiles a little. “I don’t know if they’re made up.” He says and I look at him amused. “Knox, they’re fiction.” I and he shrugs his shoulders like he doesn’t agree. “I think I would be Superman.” He says and I look at him shocked. “Really?” I can’t believe his answer. Out of all the superheroes in the world “Yes!” He says offended. “Not even Iron man? Or …”

“Are you Lia’s bodyguard?” Adrian’s voice came out low, gentle, nothing like the man who once signed my death warrant. “Something like that.” Liam studied him for a long moment, then held out the colouring page he’d been working on. It was a crude drawing of a woman with long black hair and a man in a black cape standing beside her, holding hands. “That’s you,” Liam said proudly, pointing at the woman. “And that’s your superhero.” My throat closed. Adrian crouched slowly so he was eye-level with the bed.