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Before everyone's read it and I sound like a total Me Too, I just wanted to say I finished Soon I Will Be Invincible and enjoyed it quite a bit. The book is narrated by two characters, fallible both. Half the chapters are narrated by Dr. Impossible, one of the setting's great supervillain, while the other half are narrated by Fatale, a rookie cyborg superheroine and new initiate into the world's great superteam.
I liked Dr. Impossible's narrative. You could tell that he was seeing the world just a little differently, exaggerating certain details, ignoring others. If you've ever been a bit of a social outcast, you might be a little sympathetic towards him, 'till you realize that getting tackled by a football player or snubbed by a cheerleader doesn't justify knocking the planet out of its orbit.
A lot of the characters map onto existing characters, although some are more like archetypical. Three characters seem to be the Big 3 from DC, but while Blackwolf is Batman in a different cowl, Corefire is more a combination of a Superman-level character with a Firestorm-esque origin and Damsel is much less Wonder Woman than either of the other two is like their counterpart.
Of course, more nerdy discussion is ( behind the cut )
I liked Dr. Impossible's narrative. You could tell that he was seeing the world just a little differently, exaggerating certain details, ignoring others. If you've ever been a bit of a social outcast, you might be a little sympathetic towards him, 'till you realize that getting tackled by a football player or snubbed by a cheerleader doesn't justify knocking the planet out of its orbit.
A lot of the characters map onto existing characters, although some are more like archetypical. Three characters seem to be the Big 3 from DC, but while Blackwolf is Batman in a different cowl, Corefire is more a combination of a Superman-level character with a Firestorm-esque origin and Damsel is much less Wonder Woman than either of the other two is like their counterpart.
Of course, more nerdy discussion is ( behind the cut )
