Len Mihalovich is a comic book
writer, publisher, editor, letterer, and digital artist, awell as the founder
of Lenovations Press. He has worked for a number of Independent
Comic publishers over the years, creating his fair share of super-hero
adventures. In 2014, he founded
Lenovations Press to create his own Indie Comic titles. These titles include The
Adventures of Track Suit Man, a comedy based on real social media
events, Fantastic Fan Boys Adventures, Avenger New Blood
and others. Most recently, Lenovations Press has branched out into Westerns and
golden age characters with their new Edge of Adventure line. However, he
and Lenovations are perhaps best known for his work the ‘90s comics series Section
12 and its offshoots Section 12 (Flashback), Section
12 (Declassified), and Section 12 (Lost Adventures).
The backstory of Section 12 is
that the facility is a research program much on the order of the “research
facility” we all saw on Stranger Things, and elsewhere in
fiction. It operates as a top-secret government
installation designed to conceal the world’s most dangerous scientific
mistakes. Imagine if the government was attempting something to Marvel Comics’ Project
Wide Awake program where the U.S. government was attempting to create the Super
Soldier serum, only there were more mishaps than successes. Here—in Section
12—all of the failed experiments and their strange, often terrifying results
are hidden away from the world at large.
Every trace of the existence of these
so-called “mishaps” is wiped clean, and the survivors are each locked away with
no chance of ever being released or acknowledged. Their facility’s “retrieval team” is made up
of super-powered beings who are blackmailed into service and forced to bring
back others like them. Failed experiments deemed too dangerous to remain free.
Then in 2025, Len decided to take
his storytelling to the next level and bring some of his comicbook characters
into prose with a novel simply entitled Section 12. What he did, was for all intents
and purposes, was to retell the story of Section 12 that he had been telling in
the comics, but with much more detail and depth than was possible in the
comics. Something that he does with style, grace, finesse and talent. The novel
is the tale of Lieutenant Michael Batterson—once a proud soldier—who awakens to
a nightmarish reality as one of the hidden failures of the program and finds
himself trapped in a place where the line between man and monster blurs.
It is during an outbreak of
interred subjects, the Lieutenant is tapped to lead a team of other subjects to
subdue and detain those that are rioting, and to do so before any of them
actually break free from the confines of the facility and make their way into
the unsuspecting outside world. This is where Michael must fight to reclaim his
own humanity.
So now Lieutenant Batterson must
navigate the dark corridors of Section 12, where secrets are as deadly as the
creatures they imprison. With each step deeper into the vast facility, the
horrors of the place multiply, and the stakes increase. Prisoners of the secret
facility must choose either to accept the fate imposed on them rise against
their captors or accept Batterson’s offer to side with him and hope for a more
lenient sentence and possibly join his newly formed containment team. However,
their escape comes with a price, and the outside world is simply not prepared
for what will be unleashed if any of the inmates actually escape.
If you are already a fan of Lenovations
comicbooks (
as are we) or specifically the Section 12 comics, you’ll really want to seek out not
just the Section 12 novel but all of the Section 12 comics as well. Oh heck, go
ahead and sample comics from across
the entire run of Lenovations
comics and books. Also, Len makes numerous appearances at various comicbook shows, and also has plenty of comics and books on hand
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