Bruce Smith 
Lightning War 

It would be realy swell if those ascending to power were good, trustworthy, and capable leaders. Theyre not. Power doesnt corrupt; people corrupt everything. That includes the Allied Nations, an amalgam of the worlds governments. What about those anthropomorphic mechs from Infitech that eventually found their way into every household? Corrupted. Topping this list are four superhuman terrorists who are labeled Wielders. The Wielders control temperature, electricity, luminous energy, and geomorphic forces. How these people gained such abilities remains a mystery. Just one of them could level cities or rout entire armies. Flare-ups involving Wielders keep surfacing, spreading panic and demanding a response.

Mark works hard at Infitech with several other renowned scientists. To ensure international security, the allies contract them to develop a defense for the threat Wielders pose. The solution they come up with worksmaybe a little too well. Finding his life transformed, Mark eventually comes face-to-face with a fifth Wielder. Sparking a war humanity had already lost, he changes history, becomes a beacon of hope, and is referred to as the Anomaly by his enemies. In his struggle to control the force he wields, Mark must answer an important question: what should we do with power?

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Born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 17, 1988, Bruce was raised by his mother, Yvette. As a single parent with two kids (Danielle, his sister, was born two years earlier), his mom raised them on the Holy Scriptures, herself being one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Bruce and his sister grew up and decided to get baptized as witnesses of Jehovah too. At the time of his completing Lightning War, the three of them still live together, supporting one another.

Lightning War (initially titled Blitzkrieg) was written bit by bit over a period of about three years. For a long time it was just gathering dust because Bruce didn’t set out to do anything with it. He had already drawn what Mark and Lucas looked like. Next, playing a popular video game one day, Bruce realized that the fire and electric types were his favorites. Coming from a family of strong writers, himself writing many talks / public discourses as a witness, he at last started writing about Infitech and their robots.

A very strong and recurring theme in Lightning War is personal weakness. Ever since Bruce was little, he had a strong sense of justice. When another little kid in day care dropped his cookie on the floor, he saw Bruce’s and took it. That destroyed Bruce. He didn’t understand why the kid would do something like that. He cried about it a lot. “It’s not fair!”

Now as an adult, he suffers from several health problems that developed over the years. These prevent Bruce from living how he’d like, altered how he views himself, and has profoundly affected him physically and emotionally. “It’s not fair, ” he could cry out. Sometimes he does; sometimes he has to. Bruce had perfected bottling negative feelings (which he can’t rightly recommend) to a science. That’s where Lightning War came from.

Bruce realized late into writing Lightning War that Mark and himself were 93 percent the same guy. Mark’s a reckless individual who doesn’t really plan things out. And he’s always falling, which the author finds humorous. Raven represents someone Bruce personally loves. His Raven doesn’t know how much she contributed to this story as fuel for the protagonist. She also unknowingly supplied endurance for Bruce to complete his story, while finishing it helped him turn the page on a particularly dark period. A lot of Bruce’s sister is in Raven. His depression manifests itself in both Shift and Raven. Bruce would say his power is fighting to make this story happen. He put everything in this, and if it doesn’t work out, he’s all out of ideas. You think that donut place will take him back?