Moon Stalker (Luke Sanders Series Book 2)

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I failed my sister, and I smell my enemy. The last thing I expect is for the Alpha to recognize me as his fated mate. But a marriage borne out of duty soon takes on a whole new spin. For Kir discovers his bride is an utterly enticing mystery. Beatrice is half-faery, maybe a little bit vampire, and altogether delightful. As for Bea, she has this much in common with her new husband: The hard-as-nails female is more than he could ask for—intense, clever and sexy as sin.

Rachel is human and fears his kind. Determined to start fresh in the wilds of Colorado, she answers an advertisement in the paper for a wife. Tristan believes his obsession with Avery is nothing more than lust. Determined to bed her despite her strange powers, will he convince her to accept her new life or give her the freedom she craves? But though she prides herself on being independent, deep down she still yearns for a knight in shining armor.

But after so many of his Pack brothers have found their mates, he starts wondering if there might be a mate in his future too. But when her plans backfire, her hope for freedom begins to fade. When her world hits rock bottom, she stumbles across wolf shifter, Devin Caedmon, who offers her safety and protection. She learns to trust the wolf, but has yet to trust the man. But when Fabian saves a certain lady from drowning, everything he knows gets tossed away and only one thing becomes clear: Until he moves to New Wurzburg and meets Friederike Burkhart.

And someone wants her dead for it.

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For the first time, Rain has something worth fighting for, worth living for. His plan is easier said than done, especially when not just any woman will do. When their captors separate the three women, they vow to reunite, no matter the cost. But now someone knows the truth and is determined to exterminate her family line. Living on borrowed time in the midst of this dangerous game of hide and seek, the last thing Elodie needs to do is fall in love.

But Sawyer is determined to protect her, and the brooding, angry boy is more than what he seems. Can they outsmart a madman? And if they survive, will they find a way to beat the curse for good? Redwood Pack, Book 6. Using her knowledge and research, she helped save the Redwood Pack from devastation. Not since she lost her mate so long ago. Now there is a new, younger wolf, entering her life and it will take more than her nose in a book to figure out the warmth in her heart is much more than a promise of a new feeling.

Banished from my birth pack after a bloodbath, I never wanted a mate. Then I meet Kylie.

The next day, she was dead. He might possess her over and over in erotic dreams that leave her aching for the rough heat of his touch, but she knows that in reality, he is far too dangerous for her to handle. Now he walks alone. But Sienna stirs his primal heart, even as he tells himself she is far too young to handle the wild fury of the wolf.

But ooooh, he smells so good. Now grown up, the alpha of the pack tries to make her his mate against her will—Bella knows she has no choice but to run away. Howard the Duck first appeared in Adventure into Fear 19 cover-dated Dec. Howard's adventures are generally social satires , while a few are parodies of genre fiction with a metafictional awareness of the medium. The book is existentialist , and its main joke, according to Gerber, is that there is no joke: It's not supposed to be an existential experience".

Gerber wrote 27 issues of the series for the most part ditching the horror parodies , illustrated by a variety of artists, beginning with Frank Brunner. For Gerber, Howard was a flesh and blood duck and that, "if Wile E. Coyote gets run over by a steamroller, the result is a pancake-flat coyote who can be expected to snap back to three dimensions within moments; if Howard gets run over by a steamroller, the result is blood on asphalt. I would see something in my mind, and that is what you would draw! I've never had that experience with another artist before or since.

Sporting the slogan "Get Down, America! Presidential campaign of , [7] and led to Howard the Duck receiving thousands of write-in votes in the actual election. Marvel attempted a spin-off with a short-lived Howard the Duck newspaper comic strip from to , at first written by Gerber and drawn by Colan and Mayerik, [9] later written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by Alan Kupperberg. Gerber gained a degree of creative autonomy when he became Howard the Duck 's editor in addition to his writing duties.

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With issue 16, unable to meet the deadline for his regular script, Gerber substituted an entire issue of text pieces and illustrations satirizing his own difficulties as a writer. In , the writer and publisher clashed over issues of creative control, [12] and Gerber was abruptly removed from the series. On August 29, , after learning of Marvel's efforts to license Howard for use in film and broadcast media, Gerber filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Marvel corporate parent Cadence Industries and other parties, alleging that he was the sole owner of the character.

On November 5, , Judge David Kenyon approved the motion and dismissed the case. Around this time The Walt Disney Company threatened to sue Marvel for infringement of copyright claiming that Howard looked too similar to Donald Duck and enforced a different design, including the use of pants as seen in the movie and some later comics.

Gerber returned briefly to write, though not plot, 29 as part of a contract fulfillment. Issue 31 May announced on its letters page that it would be the final issue of Howard the Duck as a color comic. Marvel then relaunched the series that year as a bimonthly magazine, with scripts by Mantlo, art by Colan and Michael Golden and unrelated backup features by others; this series was canceled after nine issues. Articles in these issues claimed that Howard was Mayerik's idea, though this is contrary to statements by both Gerber and Mayerik.

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In issue 6, Mantlo introduced the concept of "Duckworld", which Gerber loathed. It depicted an all-duck parallel Earth in which there were duck equivalents of famous people, such as "Ducktor Strange" a parody of Doctor Strange who later appeared in The Sensational She-Hulk 19 and Truman Capoultry Truman Capote , who narrated the issue. As Gerber told Mediascene: Like the cartoon worlds of Disney and Warner Brothers.

Unlike the Disney and Warners worlds, however, Howard's reality was beset with the same plethora of social ills and personal vicissitudes which human beings confront daily. And the same, or similar, laws of nature applied there, too. Steven Grant followed this with a story in Bizarre Adventures 34, in which the suicidal Howard is put through a parody of It's a Wonderful Life. The original comic book series reappeared in early with issue 32, written by Grant. Grant had in fact written the story as a topical humor piece four years before, and as a result the jokes were outdated at the time it was published.

A text article in Howard the Duck 33 explained that Harvey Pekar , himself a Cleveland resident, was mentioned as a possible writer for that issue, but he was unavailable and nothing came of it. Issue 32 was originally written by Gerber. Marvel's then- editor-in-chief Jim Shooter considered this an insult to Mantlo and Gerber's story was never published. He identified Howard's parents as Dave and Dotty, names that differ from the Mantlo stories, in which his parents are named Ronald and Henrietta.

Gerber brought back Howard in The Sensational She-Hulk 14—17, again living with Beverly, now working as a rent-a- ninja. How they got back together is never explained and Beverly is not involved in the story as the She-Hulk takes Howard on a trip through several dimensions with a theoretical physicist from Empire State University. He had the idea to create an unofficial crossover between the two issues, where the characters would meet momentarily in the shadows, but which would not affect either story. Soon after, Gerber discovered that Howard was scheduled to appear in Ghost Rider vol. Gerber was not pleased with this development, and changed the "unofficial crossover" somewhat.

As Savage Dragon and Destroyer Duck escape the warehouse, they reveal that they rescued the "real" Howard and Beverly, while Spider-Man left with two of the clones. Howard has his feathers dyed green, and is renamed "Leonard the Duck", and Beverly has her hair dyed black and is renamed "Rhonda Martini". They made just one more appearance afterward, in a single-panel cameo in Vertigo Winter's Edge 2. Gerber considered this the real Howard and Marvel's Howard an empty shell.

Featuring several familiar Howard the Duck characters, the series, like the original one, parodied a wide range of other comics and pop culture figures, but with considerably stronger language and sexual content than what would have been allowable 25 years earlier.

The series has Doctor Bong causing Howard to go through multiple changes of form, principally into a mouse as a parody of Mickey Mouse , in retaliation for the earlier lawsuit , and entering a chain of events parodying comics such as Witchblade , Preacher and several others, with Howard ultimately having a conversation with God in Hell. Howard had cameo appearances in She-Hulk vol. He returned in Howard the Duck vol. This series was rated for ages 9 and up, though one issue was published with a Marvel Zombies tie-in cover with a parental advisory claim.

In November , Marvel announced an ongoing series starting in March featuring Howard as a private investigator on Earth. The creative team will be writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Joe Quinones. Released because the police fear he has mutant abilities, he encounters Bessie the Hellcow , a vampire cow. Howard makes friends with an artists' model named Beverly Switzler and a bizarre series of encounters follow. He battles Pro-Rata , the cosmic accountant, then meets Spider-Man at the end of the battle. Howard and Beverly hit the road, seeking shelter in a gothic mansion where they battle a girl named Patsy and her animated gingerbread man.

Unfortunately, the passengers are all believers in various weird cults, and try to interest Howard in them. Blotte, the Kidney Lady. After the bus crashes, Howard and Winda are sent to a mental institution. There he meets Daimon Hellstrom, and is briefly possessed by Hellstrom's demonic soul, becoming the new Son of Satan.

Later, while on the S. Damned , a cruise ship returning from scenic Bagmom, Howard and Beverly are taken captive by Lester Verde, who had a crush on Beverly in college and has now assumed the identity of the supervillain Doctor Bong , [36] who illegally marries Beverly against her will and transforms Howard into a human.

S ave O ur O ffspring F rom I ndecency. Paul is shot and left in a coma, and Winda, abandoned by Paul and Iris, is apparently raped by a hobo. Writer Bill Mantlo, beginning with issue 30, returned the series to its former status quo, bringing Beverly back into the picture and having her divorce Doctor Bong, and getting Paul, who had been shot by the Ringmaster, out of the hospital. Lee Switzler brings everyone back to Cleveland and employs Howard as a cab driver, while Paul, back to being a somnambulist after his release from the hospital, seems to have become Winda's boyfriend.

Howard dons a suit of "Iron Duck" armor made by Claude Starkowitz, a man who has delusions of being related to Tony Stark and the personal armorer to Iron Man , and battles Doctor Bong. After that, he is mistaken for "Duck Drake, Private Eye", meets CeCe Ryder when hitchhiking and battles the Gopher, [50] and is later offered a genetically constructed mate whom he does not take to.

She-Hulk accidentally pulls him though a cosmic wormhole, and along with theoretical physicist Brent Wilcox, they prevent other universes from crowding out Earth By this point, Beverly is working as a rent-a- ninja. Howard met the Critic, traveled to the Baloneyverse, and battled the Band of the Bland again. The group leaves the warehouse believing that they have brought the correct Howard with them. The sorceress Jennifer Kale , in a weekly attempt to return Howard a Howard with stubble who accuses her and Doctor Strange of being responsible for bringing him to this world to his home world, inadvertently teleports Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy into her New York apartment.

The disoriented dinosaur attempts to eat Howard, but spits him out when shot with John Blaze 's hellfire gun, then rampages through the city before being subdued by Ghost Rider Daniel Ketch.

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Howard relates to the pair being trapped in a world they never made and wanders off. This origin traces the source of these dimensions to be projections from Franklin's mind, though through the course of the adventure, Howard has a romance with Tana Nile, culminating in a kiss, after which he apologizes and tells her of his attachment to Beverly.

While Man-Thing became a self-appointed guardian to Franklin Richards, Howard went off on his own and was captured by the Cult of Entropy , who wrapped him in swaddling clothes. The cult wants him because he has part of the Nexus of All Realities , which shattered during Heroes Reborn , inside him, which he knows about because it is making him nauseous. Man-Thing enters his gullet, and Howard vomits him back out with the fragment, but the former is left desiccated and practically dead.

Howard sets Man-Thing down in the water, and he revives during the conversation with Namor. Once he sees that Man-Thing is alive and well, he bids Namor farewell and says that he is returning to Cleveland. Back with Beverly, he undergoes further shapeshifting experiments from Doctor Bong. Beverly is hired by Verde's Globally Branded Content Corporation, which manufactures boy bands from protein vats based on the sexual arousal of a focus group of gay men. Attempting to destroy an escapee whom Beverly has taken in, Bong inadvertently knocks Howard into a vat, which changes him, unstably, into a mouse [66] —showering changes his form multiple times.

Verde then goes to the press and claims that his building was attacked by Osama el-Barka "Osama the Duck" in Arabic. Howard and Beverly are sent back on the road after the junkyard office where they are living is destroyed by a S. One of the officers on the case is the same beat cop who mistook Howard for a mutant many years before. Suzy is the inheritor of the doucheblade , which starts to take her over until in a skirmish, the bracelet is caught by Howard.

The doucheblade causes its holder to grow enormous bare breasts and armor in a parody of Witchblade , and possessed by this, Howard kills the male lover of a businessman who works with Verde as he and Verde break into Suzy's house. Arriving at the Boarding House of Mystery, Howard and Beverly encounter Cain and Abel , the latter with a rock stuck in his head that allows him only moments of lucidity.

There, they are granted their every wish, including Howard's return to his true form, and Beverly never being tight again, and meet parodies of John Constantine , Wesley Dodds , the Endless , Spider Jerusalem , and Gerber's own Nevada called Utah , all characters from DC Comics ' Vertigo imprint. The downside is that everyone staying in the place gets their every wish, so Che Guevara can have his revolution, but someone else can easily slaughter him. Upon leaving the house, Howard is once again transformed into a mouse. Iprah has been merged with an experiment by the Angel Gabriel called Deuteronomy, intended to replace God , because God has been spending all his time in a bar in Hell since Deuteronomy is a creature half- id and half- superego , while Iprah is an all-ego promoter of self-indulgent pop psychology.

Considering her dangerous, Gabriel sends the cherub Thrasher to resurrect Sigmund Freud , whose cigar blasts out half of Thrasher's brains being immortal, this just makes him act drunk. Iprah destroys Freud, but Howard blasts her with the cigar, separating her from Deuteronomy. Puffing on the cigar, Howard disintegrates and arrives in Hell.

Sometime later, Howard attempts to register under the Superhero Registration Act during the superhero Civil War , but learns his socially disrupted life has created so many bureaucratic headaches that the government's official policy is that Howard does not exist. This lack of government oversight delights him: Heck, I couldn't even vote if I wanted to!

After he defeats the supervillain M. Howard the Duck is briefly seen as part of the superpowered army gathered to battle invading Skrull forces. During the Fear Itself storyline, Howard forms a team called the Fearsome Four with She-Hulk , Frankenstein's Monster and Nighthawk to stop the Man-Thing when he goes on a rampage in Manhattan, due to the fear and chaos he senses on the citizens.

They later discover a plot by Psycho-Man to use Man-Thing's volatile empathy to create a weapon. Howard and Beverly were brainwashed and forced to work for S.

Spider-Man interrupted a S. Spidey escaped with Howard and broke his brainwashing because Beverly was threatened. Howard quickly explained S.

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As Spider-Man publicly announced his long-standing support for S. Howard broke through to Beverly, reminding her of their past. Spidey attacked them and unmasked the Supreme S. Because of his experience with zombie-infested worlds and his leadership of Machine Man, he was chosen as the leader of, as he dubbed them, the Ducky Dozen. The team was composed of him, several Golden Age heroes, Dum-Dum Dugan, and Battlestar, who is also a veteran of a zombie incident.

Upon entering Earth, the Ducky Dozen fought hordes of zombie Nazis and Asgardians , but suffered grave losses as members were either killed or zombified in battle. After successfully accomplishing their mission Howard, Dugan, Taxi Taylor and Battlestar were the only members left to survive and returned to Earth along with the Riveter, the only survivor of Earth's resistance team the Suffragists. They beat the horde back with nothing but a broken sword, a rubber chicken with nails in it and a gun that shoots bees. After the death of Uatu the Watcher and the activation of the secrets buried in his eye, Howard discovered that he had the potential to be the most intelligent being in Duckworld.

After evading a squirrel while driving, he was thrown flying and used his intellect to calculate a way to land safely in a dumpster. Howard returned to his business as a private eye, working in the same building as She-Hulk, in Brooklyn. One of his first new clients was Jonathan Richards, who hired Howard to retrieve a necklace stolen by the Black Cat. With the help of Tara Tam, his new friend and assistant, Howard managed to recover the necklace.

But on his way to give it back to Richards, he found himself kidnapped by the Collector and allied with the Guardians of the Galaxy to escape the villain's collection. Upon returning to Earth, he confronted the Ringmaster, who had been hypnotizing old people into robbing for him, after he was robbed by May Parker , Spider-Man's aunt. After recovering the necklace for a third time, Howard was approached by Richards in the middle of his fight against the Ringmaster and Richards revealed himself to be Talos the Untamed, who revealed that the necklace was part of a marginally powerful item known as the Abundant Glove.

With help from Doctor Strange, Howard and Tara located the final piece of the Abundant Glove, but were unable to put it all together when Talos grabbed it, who proceeded to use it to wreak havoc on the city. Talos was confronted by numerous heroes while Howard and Tara took cover. He was able to point out that Tara, who revealed to possess shapeshifting powers similar to that of a Skrull , could help him defeat Talos. Talos was later apprehended by the Fantastic Four and everything went back to normal.

Howard has no superhuman powers, but he is skilled in the martial art known as Quak-Fu, enough to defeat, or at least to hold his own against, far larger opponents. He has shown some degree of mystic talent in the past, to the point that Stephen Strange taught some spells to Howard and even offered to train him, but Howard declined.

On one occasion, Howard used a suit of powered armor known as the "Iron Duck" armor designed by Claude Starkowitz. Besides its property as body armor, the suit was equipped with foot-mounted leaping coils, a chest-mounted searchlight, and flamethrowers in both arms. Howard the Duck, as his name suggests, is a three-foot-tall anthropomorphic duck.

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