Captain Jack Zodiak
by Michael Kandel

Description:
One nuclear bomb can ruin your entire day. . . but it's the garbage strike and the runaway inflation that's getting on everyone's nerves. Then there is the greenhouse effect: all those chemicals in the atmosphere make for some pretty strange mutations. Cliff Koussevitsky has problems of his own. His son is a space cadet, his daughter a mall zombie, and his new mother-in-law Her Satanic Majesty. Still, Cliff knows that even in a crazy world of carnivorous lawns and overzealous superheros only one thing really matters: family. So from the pit of hell to the end of the Galaxy, Cliff is out to prove there's nothing more heroic than a father trying to save his kids -- even if he has to become a criminal to do it.