art by Werner Mueck
The Shiny Surfer, lumbered with Mrs' Galactus & Darkseid, Bishop and Baron Zemo, is trying to find the mysterious Kai. Join the bickering Questers on their epic Galactic journey to annoy other life-forms, molest domestic animals, destroy sacred beliefs and generally sow confusion and discord.
Who is the super villain with the constantly inflamed gonads? Will Mesdames G & D get back in time for tea? And why is Tessticulatus so annoyed?
All of these questions, and many others, may be answered in the final exciting instalment of Sex & Spandex: The Quest for the Kai.
Content Includes:
Chapter 1 – The Prophesy of Pedantica - Wherein The Surfer meets the annoying Pedantica and learns of the Kai.
Chapter 2 - Phys Ed. @Mutie High - Wherein the Quest for the Kai begins.
Chapter 3 - Meeting Grotus Squaley - Wherein a vital clue is revealed.
Chapter 4 – Dead stuck in D-Space - Wherein Celestial navigation becomes a problem.
Chapter 5 - The Testing of Tessticulatus - Wherein Gods are mocked and scared beliefs overturned.
Chapter 6 - An Alien Walks into a Bar - Wherein aliens are insulted, domestic animals molested and ill temper runs amok.
Chapter 7 - The Anvil of the Three Suns - Wherein our heroes resume their inept Quest.
Chapter 8 - Revelations: Real & Imagined - Wherein the Quest is completed but not as expected.
Author's Notes
This was a longer, more connected narrative, than the previous book and I was experimenting with the style in this book. This used a narrator and was a homage to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; the little digressions and stories allowed me to add even more jokes.
I tried to limit the use of existing characters in this book and invented my own, to add to Mrs Galactus and Mrs Darkseid. I loved writing the litrally-minded alien Tessticulatus and, his encounter with Bishop and Zemo, is the highlight of this series. The story does have a conclusion and was a fitting end to this intiial series of books.
By the end I had decided to create something outside the superhero fantasy world; although Colin Thorson still had some fantasy elements.
