Comic Book Romance by Charles Payseur

Author:Charles Payseur [Payseur, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-63533-900-0
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

THERE WASN’T exactly a plan. Maxim and Liang were two people in a prison full of supervillains, five of whom had just been set free so they could assassinate Calvin Kant. Oh, and there didn’t seem to be any way in or out, thanks to the giant magic warding stone Luzo had tripped when she began her attack. The situation was not ideal.

Obviously Luzo had to have an escape planned; otherwise, all of this was useless. So all they really needed to do was find out how she was getting out and then stop her and wait for the prison to initiate whatever protocol they had for when shit like this happened. At least, Maxim hoped the prison had some plan, aside from leaving all the guards and inmates stranded for the rest of time.

“So why do you think Luzo went to all the trouble of breaking into a prison just to free only five inmates and ask them to kill Cal?” Liang asked as they moved down a hallway in the direction they hoped the little meeting was still going on.

“You mean, if she has the resources to affect an incredibly difficult prison break, why doesn’t she just kill him herself?” Maxim asked, trying to be quiet. The last thing they needed was to be overheard, but he also knew that telling Liang to stop talking might just make him more fidgety and maybe more prone to doing something foolish.

“Something like that,” Liang said.

It was a fair point. Luzo didn’t know Calvin Kant had superpowers. So why go to such extreme lengths to have him killed?

“You do cover supervillains for a living, right?” Maxim asked. “What’s the point of doing something simple? Or efficient? Why blow your nose when you could build a machine to blow your nose? When you could subjugate an entire reality of sentient teddy bears to construct a machine that will not only blow your nose, but make it so that all your snot gets instantly transported into the faces of your enemies weeks before it’s even produced by utilizing time-bending technology and the latest in tissue quantum physics?”

“Yeah,” Liang said, then made a little O with his mouth. “I see your point.”

Maxim couldn’t help but chuckle. Despite the dire situation—being trapped and learning that his alter ego had just been marked for death—Maxim was actually enjoying himself. Liang was so much different than anyone he had known in Metro City. Alive and fearless even in the face of the most convoluted of supervillain plots. And, more than that, he didn’t treat Maxim like, well, a superhero. Or at least like his being a superhero was of no more importance than Liang being a reporter. Like he looked at Maxim, with his weird backstory and sometimes-embarrassing history, and just saw… a person.

“I can’t believe that I’ve been sidled with such a buffoon such as yourself,” the Helmet’s voice boomed from farther up the hallway and around a corner.

Maxim grabbed Liang and pulled him into an alcove.

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