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“Beast Mode” started as a phrase people used to describe the running style of former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch.“I think it was just my relentlessness and my no-back-down type of demeanor when it came to running the ball, like, ‘Boy, that boy a beast,’” Lynch said.“And it’s like, yeah, when I get the ball, that’s what type of mode I’m in — I’m in beast mode.”Lynch played 12 seasons for the Buffalo Bills, Seattle Seahawks and Oakland Raiders, amassing 10,413 in 2,453 carries with 85 touchdowns.

Somewhere along the way, he said, the phrase “Beast Mode” evolved into “this persona bigger than myself.” Sports Former UFC and WWE champion Ronda Rousey will publish her first graphic novel next year.She said it’s somewhat autobiographical, ‘even though it didn’t really happen.’“The way that I get approached by kids and fans, like the way that they approach me is almost as if I am like a character so to speak, and I don’t think that I was doing it justice because I’m like, ‘Well s—, I’m just only a man,” the Super Bowl XLVIII champion said.

“But I believe in their mind what they had made up as Beast Mode is this larger-than-life, kind of surreal individual.”Lynch is embracing that perception of himself ...and Beast Mode is about to become a literal comic book hero.

On Friday, Arists Writers and Artisans announced the graphic novel “Beast Mode 510,” which is scheduled to be released Oct.6.

Written by NAACP Image Award-nominated author Sheldon Allen and illustrated by Eisner Hall of Fame artist Denys Cowan, the book was “inspired and guided by” Lynch and is a “deeply personal love letter” to his hometown Oakland, according to a news release from AWA.“At its center is Beast Mode: the 510’s legendary fixer and freelance sleuth whose rough exterior hides a code of loyalty and willingness to deal with problems ot...