From the blurb: Meet Jessica Jones. Once upon a time, she was a costumed superhero…but not a very good one. Her powers were unremarkable compared to the costumed icons that populate the Marvel Universe. In a city of Marvels, Jessica Jones never found her niche. Now a chain-smoking, self-destructive alcoholic with a mean inferiority complex, Jones is the owner and sole employee of Alias Investigations – a small, private-investigative firm specialising in superhuman cases. When she uncovers the potentially explosive secret of one hero’s true […]
Just like Thanksgiving dinner, the sides are the best part!
Corpies is a spinoff of the Super Powereds books. It fits between Super Powereds Year 2 and 3 – we hear a little bit about it in Year 3, but not much. Hershel and Roy’s father, the hero called Titan, has decided to finally get off his ass and return to hero work. He had previously left the hero business, or the Life, after a sex scandal ruined his reputation. Not only was Titan caught having sex with someone other than his wife, but it […]
Transgender superhero YA.
Danny Tozer has always known she should have been born a girl, and we know this on the first page. The first scene of this book features her hiding in an alley, dressed otherwise like a male, and painting her toenails; this is the only outlet she has as a closeted trans fifteen year old in an emotionally abusive household (her dad is a colossal asshole). But everything changes when her toenail painting session is interrupted by a superhero/supervillain fight. Dreadnought, one of the most powerful superheroes, is shot […]
Powered Teenagers That Mess Up, Like Teenagers
Zeroes is a co-authored book that starts what will probably be a trilogy. I didn’t pay attention and didn’t realize that the book had three authors until I finished it and there were three author bios at the end of my kindle edition, and looking back I can kind of see the seams. That being said, the book is so very much in Westerfeld’s wheelhouse; so much so that the book constantly reminded me of his earlier Midnighters series. The book is about a group […]