Stuart Kelly

Kapows and wisecracks: Fight Me, by Austin Grossman, reviewed

A mild-manned academic with special powers joins forces with three similarly gifted friends to defeat the Dark Adversary, Sinistro

Austin Grossman. [Bill Wadman]
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