Masked Commander

    (Meridian, 2004)
™ and © Meridian Arts

Daunted by bureaucracy and partisan rancor and staggered by the complexity of unforeseen challenges, the President of the United States dramatically assumes the heroic identity of the Masked Commander. Borrowing key fundamentals from Batman, Masked Commander bypasses traditional authority structures to exert his will to do good. He travels the world on Air Fort One and leads the charge against evil with a dedicated cadre of Top Secret Service Agents by his side.

Although the book avoids explicit mention of real events from recent history, readers will doubtless recognize the modern concerns and political anxieties underpinning Masked Commander. Consider, for example, the villainous Deficit, a nebulous entity that “siphons power from sources of all kinds” and whose lethal threat may never be fully extinguished. And there’s the Grand Jury—a vexatious trio of investigators turned mad vigilantes—who pursue the President with their own twisted agenda. The enigmatic Foreign Affair might be the President’s strongest ally except for her ever–shifting allegiances and murky priorities.

Equal parts political fantasia and comic book action thriller, Masked Commander merges Golden Age sensibilities with contemporary social and political themes under the writing direction of John May.

— Leland Burrill
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