New Releases by Scott Campbell

Describes how the members of Gen13, Fairchild, Burnout, Grunge, Freefall and Rainmaker, first met each other. Includes a sketchbook section by J. Scott Campbell and Jim Lee that discusses how the comic book was developed.

Robbie Young is an ordinary twelve-year-old boy about to drop a bombshell that will devastate his small town family. One day he rides his bike home after school, finds his mother in the kitchen making dinner, and speaks aloud the secret he''s been keeping for a year, "Jerry Houseman''s been touching me." Robbie has been molested and the Young family will never be the same. From that moment on, the novel unfolds with inexorable power. The story is narrated in four parts: first by Robbie''s mother, then by Jerry Houseman himself, then by Houseman''s wife Linda, and concluded by Robbie himself fifteen years later, when he has returned to town for a high school reunion. Each voice is remarkably persuasive and utterly convincing, and the result is a novel that is impossible to put down as it is impossible to forget.

From the very start, Lynch knew it was only a matter of time before his former employers at I.O. tracked down their rogue Gen-actives, and that day has finally arrived. When I.O. sends in a team of Keepers armed with the latest Warhawk battle suits to retrieve their wayward children, Major Kendrick and Lieutenant Phillips find that Lynch hasn’t exactly been caught unprepared!

The villainous Baby-er, that is, Mr. Luv-has the girls of Gen13 held captive at Luv Industries Tower, and they’re not exactly thrilled about what he’s got planned for them next. Time for Lynch and the boys to perform a rescue-if they can make it past Luv’s deadly playthings first!

The girls of Gen13 hit the town to do some holiday shopping, but find they’ve bought nothing but trouble when their old enemy Helmut attacks in the middle of downtown San Diego! Helmut’s not just settling old scores either-who is the mysterious new villain who’s busted the armored behemoth out of prison and hired him to capture Caitlin, Sarah, and Roxy?

It’s the night of the university’s Welcome Back Fling, and the entire campus has turned out to party-including Gen13. Good thing, too, because a fraternity prank gone horribly wrong is about to put every student’s life in danger! Meanwhile, a team of highly trained killers is drawing ever closer to their target.

They’ve battled all manner of super-powered foes and extra-dimensional bad guys, but are the kids of Gen13 prepared for…college? The first day of school offers new experiences and new interests for each member of the team, but there are some students who have started to mysteriously go missing from campus…

Caitlin and her father have been reunited at long last-but what will this mean for her future with Gen13? And if Caitlin were to decide to step away from the team, who should Lynch pick as their new leader? Sarah and Bobby may have some thoughts on that...

It''s goth meets geek as the Gen13 kids run afoul of Tranquility''s garage band metahumans, the Liberty Snots. These teen legacy heroes drip pretension from every clammy, powdered pore and have no love for the somewhat-less-affected children of Tabula Rasa. It''s a classic battle of outsiders!

"Fire from Heaven: Chapter 3.” Lynch, Deathblow, Grifter, and the kids must fight their way past a manipulated Stormwatch, Ivana Baiul’s DV8, and Kaizen’s deadly compound to save Dr. Tsung and Freefall! Fortunately, new hero Sigma is there to help-but what the group discovers in the depths of Kaizen’s lab is more than any of them could have anticipated…

The team finds itself captured and entirely at the mercy of the mysterious Trance and his Freaks-and there’s not a lot of mercy there to be had! As if that wasn’t bad enough, Caitlin seems to have been completely brainwashed, something very strange is happening with Qeelocke, and Anna has been keeping one pretty big secret from the kids.

When Caitlin goes missing, Lynch and Gen13 follow her trail to an abandoned carnival in San Francisco but find the figure from Freefall’s recurring nightmares has led them all into a trap. On the other side of the world, Ivana Baiul gets ready to make her move against Gen13, while Captain Lucius Morgan contacts an old friend.

The Vatican’s own super-powered team-the Centurions-has captured Fairchild, Grunge, and Freefall! Now it’s up to Rainmaker and Burnout to find and rescue their teammates with the help of their old frenemy, Bliss-but can they afford to trust her?

Still making their way back home after their island adventure, the team takes some time to enjoy Italian nightlife. But when a heartbroken Burnout vents his anguish with a fiery display of power in the skies over Rome, the Vatican interprets it as a violation of their jurisdiction-and responds with their own super-powered team!

It’s all-out war between the forces of the Pirate King and the Coda Sisterhood for the fate of a young girl-and Gen13 is caught in the middle! The Isle Du Mystere gives up its secrets-but will the fate of Caitlin’s long-lost father be among them?

Scattered and in disarray following their collision with a ship off the coast of the Isle Du Mystere, the various members of Gen13 find themselves lost in the jungle, captured by a tribe of Coda warriors, and even rescued by pirates! While the kids deal with dangers they never anticipated, Lynch sets out to rescue them-but some old friends may delay his travel plans.

When the kids of Gen13 agreed to band together under the leadership of John Lynch, he promised to help them find their parents-but as far as Caitlin Fairchild’s concerned, Lynch hasn’t been living up to his end of the deal. So a quick computer hack and a totally unauthorized trip around the globe later, our heroes are bound for a mysterious island they hope may hold some answers.

“WildStorm Rising: Part 4.” Defile’s hunting down all the former members of Team 7 in a desperate search for a missing Daemonite artifact-and John Lynch is next on his list! Seems like the perfect job for Defile’s newest lackey, Helmut-after all, it was Lynch who sent Helmut to prison 25 years ago. But if Helmut wants Lynch, he’ll have to go through Gen13 first!

Frederick Ayer (1792-1825) married Persis Cook (1796-1880) June 9, 1817 in North Groton, Connecticut. They had five children. Their son, James Cook Ayer (1819-1878) married Josephine Mellen Southwick (1827-1898). Their other son, Frederick Ayer (1822-1918), married Cornelia Wheaton (1835-1878) and Ellen Barrows Banning (1853-1918). His eldest daughter, Beatrice Banning Ayer, married (General) George S. Patton. The family had a successful patent medicine company in Lowell, Massachusetts and was also involved in the textile industry. Traces their ancestors and descendants in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maine and elsewhere.