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Making Waves in Fantasy/Fiction May 12, 2005
Ted Lazaris' Dragonman and the Poseidon Encounter
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After reading Lazaris' Dragonman: The Adventures of Luke Starr, I anticipated that we'd soon hear from our morphing protagonist, Luke, and the tenacious team of Starr Investigations once again. In this sophomore creation, Lazaris utilizes his crafty skill of piecing together sequenced ambiguities and mysteries and revealing their significance to the reader at precise moments, which signifies creative and structural mastery of a writer over his abilities and work, like a concert pianist who can perform Chopin in his sleep. We witnessed this exemplary technique in the first born Dragonman: The Adventures of Luke Starr, but Lazaris' second spawn Dragonman and the Poseidon Encounter showcases this artistic foresight at a discernable level.
Now realizing the extent and implications of his powers, Luke battles with the conflict of how his gifts will affect his future, his endeavors, and even the lives of his offspring, were he to have children. Each intriguing chapter possesses imagination that is authentic and events that are unpredictable. Lazaris has conjured many memorable tales, combining elements of mystery, science fiction, and even allusions to mythology. After a climactic encounter with the God of the Seas in search for the Trident, Luke is reunited with his Grandmother, an incident that propels the novel to its dramatic conclusion-a conclusion that leaves readers thirsting for Lazaris' hopeful hat trick.
The Dragon Man Series Jun 05, 2004
I think your series is great. I was a big fan of Marvel comics as a kid.
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Reviewed by NYT/Best Selling Author Ellen Tanner Marsh Jun 04, 2004
In Ted Lazaris's first fantasy adventure novel, Dragonman, the Adventures of Luke Starr, the reader was introduced to the likeable Luke and his seemingly normal way of life growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Luke was portrayed as a quiet, average kid plagued by all the inherent problems of the typical American teen: dealing with a crush on a girl he's too shy to approach, pesky sisters constantly poking their noses into his business, bullies at school and exams to study for. But Luke, readers soon discovered, was burdened by a far greater weight than any of his peers, as he struggled to come to terms with his birthright as The Chosen One, savior of the distant world of Spellville. Not only that, but, like hapless Peter Parker forced to juggle his complex life as Spider-Man while pursuing his love interest and his not-always-easy career, Luke had to learn to harness the enormous powers of Dragonman, his super alter-ego, a persona that regrettably did not come with an instruction manual. In this second, action comic-like installment, Dragonman and the Poseidon Encounter, Luke seems to have come to terms with his legacy and appears well in control of his super powers--which he will be called upon to use this time around to save the world from an evil demon who seeks to claim the souls of every human being on earth. The mood of impending danger is set from the very first page, when author Ted Lazaris takes off his gloves to delivering a knock-out of an opening scene: Five-year-old Bobby Blakely, running downstairs on the morning of his birthday, finds not the hoped for brand new bicycle as a gift, but rather an enormous blue whale that has somehow "washed up" in the small lake on his parent's isolated farm. While many consider the whale's appearance a hoax, others believe it to be a sign of impending Biblical doom. And it is enough to rouse Luke's suspicions that worse is about to happen--which it does. In a pace that never flags, Poseidon Encounter unfolds in a complex thread of differing tales, from an old-fashioned detective murder mystery to a science fiction fantasy, all neatly stitched together by an intriguing cast of characters, both good and evil and not-exactly-as-they-seem. An imaginative writer, Lazaris blends magic, mysticism, religion and the fast-paced action of the comic book world into a book that fans of the first Dragonman tale will find hard to put down.
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