So Many Things to Say examines the relationships among a group of young people in Austin, Texas in the early 1980s. In those days the Lone Star States capital city hummed with creative energy. At the University of Texas, Michael Dell cobbled together computers in his dormitory room. An earnest young Paul Begala ran for student body president, losing a close race to a giant purple cartoon character called Hank the Hallucination. Stevie Ray Vaughan played nightly in the clubs downtown and Louis Black and Nick Barbaro published the first thin issues of their alternative-press biweekly, the...

Except for the fact that he's been chased out of this corner of the galaxy by demons he helped to create, comic book artist Danny Ramirez is a lot like you and me. Unfortunately, Danny soon finds that his new home is under attack by the same forces besieging Earth. A dark spirit of unimaginable powers is leading an army north to enslave the last free peoples of the Ninelands. Someone is going to have to act like a hero, and maybe it's Danny himself--even if it means picking up a sword. And saying so long to a dream.