The Wild Cards series goes back a ways.  All the way to 1987, when Bantam Spectra released WILD CARDS, volume one of our original triad, which introduced the world to Jetboy, Dr. Tachyon, Golden Boy, Mark Meadows, Gregg Hartmann, the Great and Powerful Turtle, Yeoman, Sewer Jack, Bagabond, and a host of other aces, jokers, deuces and nats.

There have been thirty-four volumes published to date — that’s not counting the various games, comic books, graphic novels, audiobooks, and similar spinoffs (...