Writer: J. Michael Straczynski

Rising Stars is a 24-issue comic book limited series by J. Michael Straczynski about 113 people (called "Specials"). They are born with special abilities following a mysterious mass of energy from an unknown, but non-terrestrial source striking the small town of Pederson, Illinois. The comic explores how a society may react to the introduction of superpowers, and how those Specials may react towards society and each other.

John Simon aka Poet: "This is the story of how we came to be. Of what happened to us, and those we knew, and loved, and fought. Where it went right ... and where it went wrong. Sixty years. One-hundred and thirteen people, born with the power. The story of the world we touched. And all the places where the world touched us. And terror and the beauty and the death of what happened in the spaces in-between."

Cover Price US$19.95 Lotsofcomics Price TT$150.00