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"First, we kill him. Then we destroy his whole world and kill any memory of him."

With the opening line of Force Majeure, the Artomiques announce their plans for revenge against the Wild Stars clone known as First Marker, and the world as we know it. Their intention is to recover the time travel device lost at the end of Wild Stars: The Book of Circles -- Recalibrated, and use it to recreate the alternate reality of the Artomiques.

But the Artomiques have been betrayed by their alien allies, the wolf-like Brothan and the Wild Stars traitor, Carthage, who have attacked a Wild Stars enclave hidden in the southern city of Argenta, kidnapping First Marker's infant daughter and using the device to escape into time.

What would you do if, after searching a Billion Years in a single day, you discovered that the future survival of Earth depends upon abandoning your daughter to her fate at the hands of sadistic enemies?

Wild Stars 2: Force Majeure is a fast-paced space opera that voyages from the dawn of life on Earth to a distant planet where dragon vampires evolve into something far more fearsome. Even the horror of Nazi Zombies from the past and future pales in comparison to the terror of the Dire Griefs.

Witness a Marzanti spaceship too large to enter a solar system and their spawn, which once nearly destroyed the Earth, headed our way again.

Wonder if anyone will live to tell of the return of Zarawti, the Wild Stars engineered space shark from Volume 1, whose name translates as "Eater of Ships" and has never left a survivor.

Created, Written and Rendered by Michael Tierney, the new sequel to the Wild Stars Volume 1 graphic novel is a novel with graphics. Wild Stars II: Force Majeure is an 83,000 novel wrapped around 38 pages of comics pencilled by Armando Gil, with 50 'flashback' illustrations by Dave Simons.

"Wild Stars: Force Majeure ... delivers staggeringly new SF concepts. Innovative ... epic ... brilliant ... WILD STARS and WILD STARS: FORCE MAJEURE forms a standout work of science fiction that takes a new ... perspective on nearly everything it introduces."

review by criticalblast.com

"Excellent ... this one will not disappoint."

review on amazon.com

In legal contracts, Force Majeure is a void clause for events deemed to be an "Act of God." A personal connection to the term not discovered until after Force Majeure: Prairie Bay was published in 2002, is that in Ireland claims of Force Majeure are filed on the second floor of the Michael Tierney building in Country Cork. During the potato famine, my great great grandfather sailed from County Cork to America in a dinghy.

How many acts of Force Majeure are there in this book? Hint: don't use their instances as a drinking game. If you're a fast reader, you won't be by the end of the book.

Even if the threats to Earth are ignored, can the lost child of First Marker, also named Mark Mackavicka, and Akara of the Wild Stars even be recovered alive? Chances are she can't, but what parent wouldn't take that chance?

Matters become even more complicated for the child called Atlanta as she is caught between the triple terrors. The Wild Stars traitor, Carthage, has been transformed into an undying monstrosity by a Saturnian, killer of Thirteen Billion earthmen. And, leading masses of feral Brothan is Gugalann, six-armed child of the Brothan God, who is determined to conquer Earth and rename it after himself. Gugalann has also secured the technology of the Wild Stars and begun building his Fearnaughts.

Then there's the problem of the Space Pirates, who have aligned themselves with Gugalann, and too many other dangers to all be listed here.

If all the above were not complication enough, the greatest danger is playing with time. Daestar, a survivor from a Wild Stars world previously destroyed by the Brothan, delivers a warning from the Wild Stars founder, the Ancient Warrior, about changing the course of time:

"Don't do it. And don't let anyone else do it."

A time travel device is the ultimate instance of Force Majeure.

2014 marked the 30th anniversary of the first Wild Stars publication.

To celebrate, in August 2014 the Volume 2 and new paperback and hardcover editions of Volume 1 were released locally and worldwide through Amazon.com.

They are also available nationwide through your favorite comic book store:

Ask your local comics retailer to order a copy today!

To buy on Amazon, click any of the images above or these links to buy either the hardcover, or the Wild Stars: The Book of Circles -- Recalibrated trade paperback or Wild Stars 2: Force Majeure.

All three editions are availble now, locally at either Collector's Edition in North Little Rock,
or at The Comic Book Store in Little Rock.

For the 2019 35th Anniverary Edition of the Wild Stars, a new edition was released as part of
a matching set with the latest release of Wild Stars 4: Wild Stars Rising!

For other preview material, you might like the page dedicated to the
impressive oil paintings by Mary Tierney. In the trade paperback they
are reproduced in black & white. They can be seen in their glorious
full color only in the original comics and the new 35th Anniversary
Hardcover edition of Wild Stars: The Book of Circles -- Recalibrated.

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