Fighting American: The Ties That Bind
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With their nemesis, MADAME CHAOS now successfully behind bars, life’s still not getting any easier for the 1950 superhero icon FIGHTING AMERICAN and his young teenage sidekick, SPEEDBOY, who find themselves marooned in the 21st Century. Now Fighting American, Speedboy and their FBI handler, AGENT RUTHERFORD must track down all the deadly hi-tech gadgetry Madame Chaos sold to extremists on the Dark Web. Meanwhile one of the villains brought from the past, the notorious DOUBLE HEADER, is now the head of the FBI and making life hell for our plucky heroes! Added to that is the problem of a long lost Great Nephew or should that be Grandson and a bust up between FA and Speedboy and it’s plain to see that life’s not getting any easier for our all-American hero.
Gordon Rennie is a Scottish comics writer, who has written both the comics and videogame and gaming industries. He created the cult classic White Trash: Moronic Inferno, along with comic strips for 2000 AD and novels for Warhammer Fantasy. For 2000 AD he created Missionary Man, Witch World and Rain Dogs, Necronauts and Caballistics, Inc. He also wrote Mean Machine and the return of Rogue Trooper.
Rennie has done a lot of work on computer games and was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA for his script on the Rogue Trooper game as well as a nomination for the 2012 Writers' Guild of Great Britain's Best Videogame Script award. Malaysian artist Andi Tong has drawn Spectacular Spiderman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Masters of the Universe, Starship Troopers and The Batman Strikes. In 2015 he illustrated the Disney book Zodiac Legacy written by Stan Lee and Stuart Moore. For Titan Comics he drew the much lauded Titan Comic Tekken.