Book Review: Confessions of a D-List Supervillain, by Jim Bernheimer

[inverarity]

Not everyone can be Dr. Doom. Or even the Crimson Dynamo.

Comments

[conuly]

Maybe, but I did find that my suspension of disbelief was sorely tested when nobody he personally knows has a less than fully intact family. I thought the bugs wiped out a huge portion of humanity? But... they were nice enough not to target people important to major characters?

[inverarity]

I think the number was half a billion, or about 1/14 of the population. Likely most of that in less developed countries, though it was never specified. Yeah, seeing a few more casualties among the main characters' associates would have been more realistic. But comic books have a long history of alien invasions leveling half the cities on the planet and next issue things being pretty much back to normal...

[conuly]

I thought it was more than that. Lets see....

[conuly]

Nope, you're right. Somehow I read that as "down TO about a billion" first time through!

[sylviamcivers]

Sounds like fun, but I've been reading Seanan McGuire's Velveteen superhero universe, and she set a high standard for superheroes.