Specular

The first installment of the IXI COMICS series by Lara Brooks-Simpson. This book puts a new spin on the superhero fiction genre while tackling important implications of mental health and dissociative identity disorder (DID). Imagine being afraid to fall asleep in fear that you will not wake up to the life you know. This is exactly what Tre Moon experienced at nine years old. His second dissociative identity set his house aflame, ruining his home, murdering his parents and sentencing him to trial for a life sentence. When seventeen year old Tre comes into contact with a prohibited substance called Colloidal Supersilver his life will change forever when he finds out he has the ability to change how light refracts from his body. His new powers come with new challenges to an already complicated life, having battled Dissociative Identity Disorder for the majority of his youth. Follow the origin story of IXI COMICS first hero as he becomes Indiana's newest vigilante, Specular! In a city full of crime, recession, drug underlords and other mysterious vigilante's, the legend of Tre Moon will unfold, all the while, his dark past tries to catch up with him...