The second book in the Supervillainy saga.
Gary Karkofsky came Merciless, the supervillain without mercy, after he found the Cloak which belonged to a superhero before that hero died. Now, he and the Cloak are permanently bonded so, Gary can (and does almost all the time) mentally communicate with the Cloak. It also gives him the power to levitate, shoot forth fire and ice, and a very limited intangibility.
At the endo of the previous book, Gary (and the Cloak) was locked up in supervillain prison (on the Moon) and managed to escape. However, due to a transporter accident, Gary has been away for a month and during that time, zombies have overrun Falconcrest City. First, Gary wants to find his wife Mandy and possibly the rest of his villain team, Diabloman and Red Riding Hood (his ex-girlfriend). Instead, he finds out that his henchpeople have taken over his house and that Mandy has been kidnapped by a supervillain called Angel Eyes.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It’s a great riff on superhero comics with the Society of Superheroes having a supervillain prison on the moon, zombies overrunning the whole world, and amazons and dragons fighting alongside Nazi robots! And Gary is becoming more and more a VINO (Villain In Name Only).
Gary is again cracking jokes left and right and throwing sci-fi references all the time. We also get to meet Death. I loved Mandy. In Gary’s absence, she’s taken on superhero identity and is trying to save the city. The characters are a good mix and I enjoyed their banter as much as the wacky twists in the story. The end has a huge surprise and the book ends in a cliffhanger.