Alex Segura's ALTER EGO is coming in November

One of the enjoyable issues of the final two years was a) studying Alex Segura’s comedian e-book thriller SECRET IDENTITY and b) watching it develop into a crucial, award profitable success..

And a sequel is on the best way: ALTER EGO, out in November. However the quilt has simply been revealed, and Popverse has the primary preview.

For these coming in late, Segura was already a properly established comics and thriller novel author when SECRET IDENTITY got here out in 2022, however this is the place he introduced all of it collectively. The e-book is set in the 1975 New York comics business, the place aspiring author Carmen Valdez toils at Triumph Comics and tries to outlive its line-up of eccentric creators and editors…till a homicide exhibits simply how severe it could possibly all be.

It’s a beautiful e-book and Segura recreates the world of Seventies comics publishing in vivid element, virtually like he was there! It wasn’t simply comics nerds like me who liked it: the e-book received the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery, amid a bathe of reward and different award nominations.

The e-book even spun off right into a comics sequence primarily based on the e-book Carmen writes in SECRET IDENTITY: The Legendary Lynx from Segura and Sandy Jarrell and Grey Allison.

And now there’s phrase of the sequel: it’s one other thriller however set in the comics business of the trendy day, with a narrative to match:

Annie Bustamante is on high of the world. A cultural drive like none different: an acclaimed filmmaker, an Oscar nominee, an creator, a comic book e-book artist recognized for one of many all-time finest superhero comics in current reminiscence. But there’s one factor she’s by no means been capable of deal with: her longtime favourite superhero, The Lethal Lynx. Only recognized to essentially the most die-hard comics followers and lengthy out of print, the rights have been by no means out there. Until now.

“Alter Ego is the other, darker side of the Secret Identity coin: a modern-day thriller set in the comic book and entertainment industry that spotlights the endless struggle between art and commerce through the eyes of a new, modern-day protagonist in Annie Bustamante,” Segura advised Popverse. Although it’s a standalone novel, a few of the characters from SECRET IDENTITY will present up in ALTER EGO, together with Carmen herself.

ALTER EGO is out there for preorder now, however you’ll have to attend till November twenty sixth to purchase your individual copy. Can’t wait!