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The Skeptics By Tini Howard And Devaki Neogi For Black Mask's Class Of 2016 – X-Men: First Class Meets Project Alpha

Published Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:19:41 -0500

Last updated Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:39:44 -0500

For Black Mask's Class Of 2016, we have The Skeptics, a new series by Tini Howard and Devaki Neogi of Curb Stomp.

A stylish, period, political adventure about a pair of hip, clever teens who fool the world of the 1960s into believing they have superpowers. Like X-Men: First Class meets Project Alpha.

It is the 1960s. The Russians have the A bomb, the H bomb, and now the most terrifying weapon of all: a pair of psychically superpowered young people. Terrified and desperate, the US top brass scours from coast to coast in search of psychic Americans. Enter Dr. Isobel Santaclara, an eccentric illusionist and grifter who has recruited two teenagers and trained them to trick the US government, the Russians, and the whole world into believing they are dangerous psychics. Skeptical is a pre-punk period piece, a sort of honest, unfuzzy, non-nostalgic look at the Cold War 1960s in DC.

Featuring female doctors, black female college students, and other genius "undesirables." Like a cross between Kill Your Boyfriend and Hard Day's Night, but about politics and ethics and how punk rock it is to be the smartest person in the room.

See the rest of Black Mask's #classof2016 right here.

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