Longman & Strongman: Rise Against Madman (Postmodern Wars Saga) - Softcover

Khanson, Shadab Alam

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798297134553

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

Longman & Strongman — Rise Against Madman

In the aftermath of the Great Collapse, the Earth is a fractured shadow of its former self—divided between god-tech empires, radioactive wastelands, and myth-fueled regimes. Amid this chaos, two unlikely heroes awaken:
Longman—a sharp-minded relic raider with a body built from forgotten science, and
Strongman—a primal powerhouse whose fists remember the ancient wrath of gods.

But peace is a myth when The Madman rises.

A posthuman tyrant driven by prophetic madness, the Madman unleashes armies of bio-mechs, hollowmen, and spectral war-beasts to bend reality itself. Cities vanish overnight. Time fractures. Memories rebel. The world doesn’t just burn—it rewrites itself.

Now hunted, haunted, and hilariously mismatched, Longman and Strongman must forge an alliance through mutant jungles, skyborne ruins, and digital ghostlands.

This is not just the rise of two legends.
It is the rise of resistance.
The Postmodern Wars have begun.

🩸 GUTS COMICS PRESENTS
✦ The Modern Mystic Mythology ✦
The Postmodern Wars Saga
BOOK 1: Longman & Strongman: Rise Against Madman
BOOK 2: Longman & Strongman: Rise Like Newman
BOOK 3: Longman & Strongman: Rise of the Showman

“They weren’t born to be legends.
They were forged in fallout, molded by myths, and chosen by chaos.”
— The PW Saga

🌍 SERIES DESCRIPTION:

In a fractured world where science sleeps with sorcery and logic bleeds into legend, two unlikely heroes rise — not because they’re destined, but because the world has no one left.

Longman, the stretched specter of intellect, wields reason like a blade in a world spiraling into magical madness.
Strongman, the muscle-bound brawler with a heart as large as his fists, crushes monsters, myths, and men alike.
Together, they navigate the Postmodern Wars — a surreal battleground where reality fractures, gods return wearing digital masks, and the boundary between mind and myth collapses.

As techno-faith cults spread across continents, and ancient relics awaken beneath skyscrapers, Longman and Strongman become humanity’s last firewall — not against one villain, but a trilogy of rising chaos.
From sky cities torn by ideological storms to underground prisons built by ancient AI, this saga blends philosophical warfare, cosmic satire, and unrelenting action.

⚔️ Themes & Aesthetic:

• Post-Mythic Heroes in Post-Truth Worlds

• Cybernetic Prophecies & Magical Realism

• Hyperviolence meets Hyperthinking

• Absurdism, Allegory, and Apocalypse

This is not just a war for the future.
It’s a battle for meaning itself.
Welcome to the Postmodern Wars Saga.
Only the GUTS survive.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shadab Alam Khanson is the visionary creator behind The Modern Mystic Mythology and the Postmodern Wars Saga, a sweeping universe where myths clash with machines, and the boundaries of heroism are redrawn in the chaos of the psyche. As founder of GUTS COMICS, Khanson writes with a sharp eye for strategy, a poetic sense of justice, and a taste for beautifully broken worlds.
His breakout saga, Longman & Strongman, reimagines heroism through an artistic lens of postmodern chaos, metaphysical warfare, and 1950s retro-futurism. With each act, he explores not just battles of power—but of identity, strategy, and legacy. When he's not creating universes, Khanson reflects deeply on justice, language, and the strange poetry of resistance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798297134553
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205