Cape Omnibus

Description

352 pages; softcover.
For mature readers.
Read all three graphic novels based on New York Times best-selling author Joe Hills short story The Cape, collecting The Cape, The Cape: 1969, and The Cape: Fallen.
Every little boy dreams about putting on a cape and soaring up, up, and what if one day that dream were to come true? Eric was like every other eight-year-old boy, until a tragic accident changed his life forever. The Cape explores the dark side of power, as the adult Erica confused and broken mantakes to the sets out to exact a terrible vengeance on everyone who ever disappointed him.
The Cape: 1969 goes back in time to the Vietnam War when Erics father, Captain Chase, a medevac helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army, is shot down over enemy territory. He and his crew are in a fight for their lives as they play a deadly game of cat and mouse with the Vietcongbut they soon learn that machine guns and grenades arent the only terrors hiding in the jungle.
In The Cape: Fallen, uncover new folds in Hills cautionary anti-superhero tale with a story that takes place between the scenes of the original series. This critically acclaimed, Eisner Awardnominated storywritten by Jason Ciaramella based on the short story by New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill, with art by Zach Howard and Nelson Dánielsmashes the classic superhero myth and wraps the bloody wreckage in a bright blue shroud: The Cape.