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Nightveil: The Quiet Girls
She was one of America’s greatest heroes in its darkest days…
She is now the world’s most powerful and alluring sorceress….
And She is working her magic in prose in the debut of her first digest THE QUIET GIRLS!
By arrangement with AC Comics and Nightveil Media, Pro Se Productions brings Nightveil- and the AC Comics Universe- to life in prose! One of the longest lasting independent comic innovators, AC Comics breathed new life into super hero tales by reaching into the Past to blast into the Future! Now Pro Se Productions ushers in a new chapter with its AC COMICS Imprint, debuting with NIGHTVEIL!
A mystery spanning decades rears its head in the modern day, plunging Nightveil on a globetrotting adventure that poses a threat not only to her immortal soul but to all life on planet Earth! Will her magic be enough to save the world again? Find out in THE QUIET GIRLS by award winning author Barry Reese! From Pro Se Productions.
She is now the world’s most powerful and alluring sorceress….
And She is working her magic in prose in the debut of her first digest THE QUIET GIRLS!
By arrangement with AC Comics and Nightveil Media, Pro Se Productions brings Nightveil- and the AC Comics Universe- to life in prose! One of the longest lasting independent comic innovators, AC Comics breathed new life into super hero tales by reaching into the Past to blast into the Future! Now Pro Se Productions ushers in a new chapter with its AC COMICS Imprint, debuting with NIGHTVEIL!
A mystery spanning decades rears its head in the modern day, plunging Nightveil on a globetrotting adventure that poses a threat not only to her immortal soul but to all life on planet Earth! Will her magic be enough to save the world again? Find out in THE QUIET GIRLS by award winning author Barry Reese! From Pro Se Productions.
- GenresThriller
147 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 28, 2017
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Barry Reese
133 books27 followersBarry Reese is one of the leading authors in the modern pulp revival. A former writer for Marvel Comics, Reese is the author of The Rook series and many other novels. His work has appeared in books published by Marvel Comics, West End Games, Wild Cat Books, Moonstone Books and Pulpwork Press. Reese's newest book, RABBIT HEART, was published in February 2010 and features his first foray into the horror genre.
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February 19, 2018
Bringing a comic character into prose pulp…
Laura Wright, daughter of a member of the United States Senate, is a masked heroine who originally went under the code name Blue Bulleteer, and later transitioned into Nightveil. The mystic maid is part of a group of superheroines known as the Fem-Force.
I vividly recall the Fem Force, who were ladies who fought crime dressed in clothing that left very little to the imagination. For a teenage boy, that was a draw to sell the comics. But I also remember thinking: “OK, wow, they are sexy! But they couldn’t actually fight in those costumes.” So I was a bit of a realist. So sue me.
When the Blue Bulleter became Nightveil, she actually covered more skin with the new costume. Still, she was drawn, as heroines in comic books usually are, as very sexualized.
As to this book, I have mixed emotions. I am no longer a young man, and I think this book doesn’t actually feel like it is for adults. I am sure that nostalgia will attract readers among the older generation, but it is very juvenile. It also comes across more tongue-in-cheek than serious pulp. It is neither comic book script nor prose novel, it hovers somewhere in between.
That said, I did like the idea of the Quiet Girls. To have as deadly an enemy as Baron Mort totally taken off his guard by such innocent-seeming kids is priceless! They were out and away the best part of the book!
I like Reese’s idea of writing characters that fit the timeline of the pulps. There are many out there that would fit pulp fiction very well. Nightveil could make a good fit for pulp fiction, but this book doesn’t get it for me. Sorry, Barry.
I will give the book three stars for bringing Nightveil into Pulp Fiction. May further writings by Barry Reese be more in the vein of his Lazarus Gray and The Peregrine.
Quoth the Raven…
Laura Wright, daughter of a member of the United States Senate, is a masked heroine who originally went under the code name Blue Bulleteer, and later transitioned into Nightveil. The mystic maid is part of a group of superheroines known as the Fem-Force.
I vividly recall the Fem Force, who were ladies who fought crime dressed in clothing that left very little to the imagination. For a teenage boy, that was a draw to sell the comics. But I also remember thinking: “OK, wow, they are sexy! But they couldn’t actually fight in those costumes.” So I was a bit of a realist. So sue me.
When the Blue Bulleter became Nightveil, she actually covered more skin with the new costume. Still, she was drawn, as heroines in comic books usually are, as very sexualized.
As to this book, I have mixed emotions. I am no longer a young man, and I think this book doesn’t actually feel like it is for adults. I am sure that nostalgia will attract readers among the older generation, but it is very juvenile. It also comes across more tongue-in-cheek than serious pulp. It is neither comic book script nor prose novel, it hovers somewhere in between.
That said, I did like the idea of the Quiet Girls. To have as deadly an enemy as Baron Mort totally taken off his guard by such innocent-seeming kids is priceless! They were out and away the best part of the book!
I like Reese’s idea of writing characters that fit the timeline of the pulps. There are many out there that would fit pulp fiction very well. Nightveil could make a good fit for pulp fiction, but this book doesn’t get it for me. Sorry, Barry.
I will give the book three stars for bringing Nightveil into Pulp Fiction. May further writings by Barry Reese be more in the vein of his Lazarus Gray and The Peregrine.
Quoth the Raven…
January 5, 2020
May 1943 and the Blue Bulleteer once more enters the fray to save a life that can find no other to protect her. But...who are the strange, blood splattered twin girls who mysteriously appear and warn her to be quiet and then mysteriously skip off? The girl is saved... the cult put down...for now... and life goes on.
November 2016...73 years since the events of that night. Life goes on... Laura Wright is no longer the Blue Bulleteer but has found her new existence as Nightveil... owner of powerful magical abilities and responsibilities. The cult that she thought destroyed in 1943, once more raises its ugly head driven by a Baron Mort - a being of true evil. And...as it happened that night so long ago... the two blood splattered twin girls once more appear with the warning to silence. How are the two connected...and how will Nightveil stop the evil threatening the world.
Barry Reese has written a book that could be straight out of AC Comics with this story of superheroes and supervillains and undying horror. The author captures the feel of the comics and the characters that made them so popular.
November 2016...73 years since the events of that night. Life goes on... Laura Wright is no longer the Blue Bulleteer but has found her new existence as Nightveil... owner of powerful magical abilities and responsibilities. The cult that she thought destroyed in 1943, once more raises its ugly head driven by a Baron Mort - a being of true evil. And...as it happened that night so long ago... the two blood splattered twin girls once more appear with the warning to silence. How are the two connected...and how will Nightveil stop the evil threatening the world.
Barry Reese has written a book that could be straight out of AC Comics with this story of superheroes and supervillains and undying horror. The author captures the feel of the comics and the characters that made them so popular.
October 5, 2021
This book is wonderfully insightful when it comes to Nightveil's universe.
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