Zendra 2.0: Heart of Fire

Zendra #2

by Stuart Moore, Martin Montiel

Across the war-torn universe, rumors of the mysterious planet Zendra and its Human inhabitants travel as part legend and part prophesy. To some, these stories are nothing more than myth, pretty tales crafted to offer frail illusions and small hopes of freedom. Others cling to what's been foretold: that one Human savior from Zendra will deliver the galaxies from the crush of the ever-spreading Jekkaran Empire.

For HALLE, a Human/alien hybrid, and the small band of Humans, Zendra is a safe haven that suffers from the burden of faith, a living responsibility to entire other worlds. After a war with the brutal Jekkaran warlord Abathor, the Zendrans and HALLE have built a utopian socity far from the eys of the Empire. But appearances are fragile, and the semblance of peace ruptures at the very core of Zendra itself as deadly disruption waves overtake the planet. HALLE and a small group of Humans must journey to Zendra's center in search of a devastating mechanical failure, but what they find is more horrifying than they ever imagined: the planet's flaming heart masks a maniacal secret that threatens to destroy Zendra and all her inhabitants.

Compiled for the first time in graphic novel format, the original six issues of Zendra 2.0: Heart of Fire present readers with an explosive sci-fi adventure. Featuring a painted cover by Eirich Olson, technology and architectural schematics by Langdon Foss, and other bonus material, this book captures the epic space saga at its best.

216 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2003

About the author

STUART MOORE is a writer, a book editor, and an award-winning comics editor.

Among his current writing projects are THE ZODIAC LEGACY, created and cowritten by Stan Lee and published by Disney, featuring an all-new team of teenaged super heroes in a series of illustrated prose novels and graphic novels; DOMINION: LAST SACRIFICE, a comic book series for Amazon/Jet City; and THANOS: DEATH SENTENCE, an original Marvel prose novel. Recent work includes EGOs, an original comic book series from Image Comics, and GARTER'S BIG SCORE, an original ebook novella for Kindle. He also contributed two series, TEACH and OUT WITH A BANG, to the launch of the online comics app Stela. Other comics work includes WOLVERINE NOIR and NAMOR: THE FIRST MUTANT (Marvel); FIRESTORM (DC Comics); assorted Star Trek and Transformers projects; and the science-fiction graphic novels EARTHLIGHT, PARA, SHADRACH STONE, and MANDALA. Prose writing includes the novel version of Marvel’s CIVIL WAR, and Disney Worldwide's JOHN CARTER: THE MOVIE NOVELIZATION.