Tommy and the Order of Cosmic Champions (Hardcover)

I was born at the tail end of the 1970s, but all of my memories are based in the 1980s. I have always been Geeky, and my fandom goes all over the map. From movies and television, to comics, to music, to toys. My appreciation of all things pop culture is very broad. It is because of these interests that I was told about "Tommy And The Order Of Cosmos Champions." One of the authors (Anthony Grate) is a friend of a friend and lives in a town not too far from my own. I always like to support local independent artists, even if, potentially, I do not like the final product. At first, I was not sure I was going to enjoy the book because there were some very specific, not mainstream pop culture references that just did not feel right for some reason. It seemed like the authors had researched pop culture things that readers might not recognize and then put them in the story to show that they were real geeks without really knowing what they were themselves. I am not saying that is what happened, just that this is what my first impression was. But then, after a few chapters, there was a turn for me, and I ended up really enjoying it a lot. I became invested in Tommy's story and where it was leading. Before i even finished it, I began to recommend it to more of my like-minded friends. The final story reminded me of both "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline and the Fred Savage movie "The Wizard"...only with the focus being on action figures rather than video games. I had a lot of fun with this story, and I hope you pick it up for yourselves and have fun with it too.