SFRevu Review

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The Reaver has two weeks to live. That's the grace period offered him by his archenemy, Octagon, and his hit squad of supervillains. Two weeks to tidy up his affairs, bid his loved ones farewell and face his final reckoning.

This is the story of how a superhero faces his mortality, redeems the "might have beens" in his life, and learns—after being in the game for years—how to be a hero.

Nine years ago, Steve Clarke was just a teenage boy in love with the girl of his dreams. Then a freak chemical spill transformed him into Reaver, the man whose super-powerful fists can literally take a year off a bad guy's life. Days ago, he found himself at the mercy of his arch-nemesis Octagon and a whole crew of fiendish super-villains, who gave him two weeks to settle his affairsÂ–and prepare to die. Now, after years of extraordinary adventures and crushing tragedies, the world's greatest hero is returning to where it all began in search of the boy he once was . . . and the girl he never forgot.

Exciting, scandalous, and ultimately moving, Prepare to Die! is a unique new look at the last days of a legend.