A Machine That Turns a Tree's Rings into a Musical Score. How to Build a (Nearly) Hack-Proof Password System with LastPass and a Thumb Drive. An exclusive sneak peek of Dawn of the Jedi, the mysterious new Star Wars comic! I don't hold out much hope for treading new ground.
Looking at the artwork we have a villain in a helmet/mask combo. That doesn't instil confidence in me. *sigh* You raise a good point, I overlooked that. As a counterpoint to Lemming's concern: Take a look at some of Jan and Jon's previous collaborations. Steven "Jumper" Gould's new novel 7TH SIGMA: genre-busting science fiction/western kicks ass. Steven Gould's latest novel 7th Sigma is his best since Jumper, and while it shares Jumper's excellent pace and likable characters, it is otherwise as totally unlike Jumper as it could be, except in the field of overall awesomeness, which it has in spades.
In 7th Sigma, the American southwest has experienced a unique apocalypse: out of nowhere, artificial lifeforms called "bugs" have appeared. These tiny robotic flying insects home in on any source of metal or EMF and devour them, budding off more bugs using the digested metals. Their geometric reproduction quickly lays waste to the southwest and all who live there -- especially people with metal pins in their joints, or pacemakers -- since the bugs are capable of tunneling through solid rock or flesh to get at the metal within.