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Super, yes! Hero? Not always.

Do you want something more than Marvel and DC? Looking for an alternative look at heroes/villains is sometimes what the mad scientist ordered.

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  • All I want is a good paying job and benefits, but what l actually get is to be canon fodder. Also know as, how did I end up working for this compassionate super villain again?
    Book, 2020New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — Fiction Walschots
  • Be a genius- check! Adopt five children with powers and teach them how to be super heroes - check! Save the world - working on it . . .
    Graphic Novel, 2008Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse, 2008. — GRAPHIC FICTION UMB
  • Not everyone who dies is normal . . . some of them come back with more!
    eBook, 2014New York : Tor, 2014.
  • Accountant vs. supervillain, I know who I think will win.
    Book, 2011New York : Tor, 2011. — FANTASY VAU
  • Hey, people with super powers need to buy cat food too. Do you really need all that money in the bank?
    Book, 2021Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2021] — FICTION CHEN MIKE
  • Nothing like an alien virus to liven the place up a bit, right?
    Book, 2010New York : Tor, 2010. — Fiction Wild
  • I think his name says it all.
    Graphic Novel, 2010New York, NY : Marvel Publishing, 2010. — F MILLAR GRAPHIC
  • Is that Simon Peg?!?? Why yes, yes it is! What do you get when you mix a child star with a super hero. Nothing good!
    Graphic Novel, 2008Runnemede, NJ : Dynamite Entertainment, c2008. — Boys Ennis,V01
  • The future is a brutal place and sometimes you need to teach it a lesson . . . and other times the future teaches you a lesson.
    Book, 2020New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020. — Fiction Pargin