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Confessions of a D-List Supervillain

(D-List Supervillain #1)

Jim Bernheimer (Goodreads Author)

4.15 · Rating details · 4,181 ratings · 332 reviews

“Being a supervillain means never having to say you’re sorry … Unless it’s to the judge or the parole board. Even then, you don’t really have to. It’s not like it’s going to change the outcome or anything.”

Those are the words of Calvin Matthew Stringel, better known as Mechani-Cal. He’s a sarcastic, down on his luck armored villain. Follow his exploits as he gets swept up ...more

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Aug 25, 2011 Stephen rated it liked it

Shelves: 2011, audiobook, invasion, humor-and-satire, supermen, science-fiction, ebooks

So….Superhero fiction. This offering was fun and some time was pleasantly diverted but I still can’t help but feel a somber lack of fulfillment in the end product. I keep hoping some smooth writing word-smither will come along and write a costumed hero story that really “gets it.” To date, this is a small but growing sub-genre of speculative fiction (thanks to the successful movie franchises) that has not yet translated well into the ungraphic novel form, at least the several examples that I ...more

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Oct 14, 2018 Gavin rated it really liked it

Shelves: sci-fi

This was a fun superhero story. It was packed with action, humor, and interesting characters. It also had plenty of cool superpowers and sci-fi technology. The world was a fun one and the story itself was engaging.

We followed the story of Cal Stringel, a D-list supervillain going by the name Mani-Cals, as he finally catches a break. The world is about to fall to the hive mind after the Evil Overlord's latest attempt at world domination hit a snag. He released a bunch of bugs that mind control This was a fun superhero story. It was packed with action, humor, and interesting characters. It also had plenty of cool superpowers and sci-fi technology. The world was a fun one and the story itself was engaging.

We followed the story of Cal Stringel, a D-list supervillain going by the name Mani-Cals, as he finally catches a break. The world is about to fall to the hive mind after the Evil Overlord's latest attempt at world domination hit a snag. He released a bunch of bugs that mind control people but they got out of control and turned on their own master! With most of the world and its premier superheroes already fallen to the hive mind it is left to Cal to save the day...or join the hive mind!

The story was quite fun. Cal avoided the mind control bugs due to being encased in his super suit of armour. He is basically a poor imitation of the worlds premier superhero Ultraweapon (Both are Iron Man style heroes/villains). Cal was a reluctant hero who, due to his past, had a dim view of superheroes and the way they do things. He also had a few villainous tendencies that made them wary of him in return. After saving one of the famous Olympians he joins with them and attempts to help save the day. Afterwards he tried to make a go of being a superhero.

Cal was always easy to root for despite the fact that he was not your typical hero. The world was a fairly cynical one, which was great, as Bernheimer was not shy of showing the fact that the superheroes were far from perfect in the way they got things done. It made for an engaging story.

If this story had a flaw it was the slight taint of misogyny and the fact that the only really fleshed out secondary characters were the two love interests.

Despite the fact that this was the first book in the D-List Supervillain series it was not my introduction to the series. I read the prequel novel Origins of a D-List Supervillain as Audible listed that as first in the series! Weirdly I felt like both books worked well as an intro to the series. The only problem with starting with Origins is that it was a slightly better book. The story in the prequel is just a bit stronger and more emotionally engaging than what we got here and the secondary characters were a lot more fleshed out. The difference was not massive as this was still a good read but I do think Origins was the slightly better intro to the series. Bernheimer used a lot of the stuff mentioned in this one for the prequel and it is amazing to see how he managed to carve out such a great story from the stuff that inspired them in this one!

After reading the prequel the biggest shock in this book was the fact that Cal was working with the superheroes. It worked and felt like Cal had definitely grown a bit as a character without completely changing who he was.

All in all I felt like this was a fun read and one of the better superhero books on the market. It is not without its flaws but still manages to be engaging and enjoyable despite them. I'll be reading more from this world for sure.

Rating: 3.5 stars. I'm rounding up as I nearly rated this the full 4 stars anyway.

Audio Note: Most of this was narrated by Jeffrey Kafer. He did a great job and this is exactly the sort of story that plays to his strengths as a narrator. Talmadge Ragan had a lesser role as she voiced a couple of small POV from one of the main female characters and I felt she did OK without ever being as good as Kaffer with the humor. ...more

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Oct 08, 2011 Kathryn rated it really liked it

Shelves: humor, science-fiction, romance, urban-fantasy, superheroes

A book I want to talk about. I have been neglectful of this site and downright lazy when it comes to writing reviews but in all honesty, most everything I have read lately has not aroused my need to record how I felt. I read alot of books, a great deal more than I remember to list here, which sucks, as at times I forget if I have read something, something by a particular author, or how I felt about a book which might be continuing as a series. In those cases, I pop on here and glance at one of A book I want to talk about. I have been neglectful of this site and downright lazy when it comes to writing reviews but in all honesty, most everything I have read lately has not aroused my need to record how I felt. I read alot of books, a great deal more than I remember to list here, which sucks, as at times I forget if I have read something, something by a particular author, or how I felt about a book which might be continuing as a series. In those cases, I pop on here and glance at one of my old reviews. Goodreads has become my memory keeper. I feel comfortable writing reviews again, and since I'm being honest, I'll just mention that I'm once again writing reviews for myself. I am afraid I was previously writing more for other people or out of concern with what people would walk away with after reading, and I was never very comfortable with that. I have never cared much for summing up a plotline but I am comfortable with throwing everything out and rambling. Most of my favorite books have ended with poorly written reviews, as I am a horrible critic and analyst, but I am passionate when it comes to books I enjoy and when I read one of my reviews about a book I loved, then a smidgen of that passion I originally felt returns. Which is what I want to feel if I ever return to this review.

I loved this book and I'm more than slightly surprised to admit so. Fans of underdogs will be satisfied. I am a superhero fan but have not extensively explored much of the fiction out there outside of gns. There seems to be a wonderful new trend (at least new to me) involving stories from the antihero/villain point of view, which more than peaks my interest, and this happened to be the first book I gambled on. I read it in one sitting and wished for the damn thing to be longer. I loved the main character and overall disliked each of the others. Mostly, I think this was intentional, yet my feelings were the same at the end, which was likely unintended. There is a whole lot that takes place and the book contains some of my favorite action scenes ever read.

This is not grand literature. It is total escapist fiction but it was just what I needed. I've been moaning all week about my Misfits withdrawals and I badly wanted to read a superhero book about someone who was rather bad at the job but loveable in a desperate and defeatist manner. Did I already say how much I loved the main character? The book was rather tame compared to most of what I read. It was not violently graphic and there were no sex scenes. My attention was held simply because I loved the main character so much. And the end was wonderful, even if I think Cal (view spoiler). The entire thing was rousing and gave me that wonderful feeling like in Iron Man II, when Tony's suitcase opens into his suit and his kicks some villain ass at the race track. And I couldn't help but think of Ironman most of the time I was reading but not in any way that annoyed me or forced me to be overly critical. The action moved so fast that I was swept away in rooting for Cal and immediately bought a second by this author, which I'm starting tomorrow. ...more

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Oct 16, 2011 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: novel, superheroes

I am so glad my husband suggested I read this one. Once upon a time Calvin Stringel was a promising young mechanical engineer. After getting burned by employer, and several bad decisions and years later he is now known as the modest supervillian MechaniCAL. Only now the world finds itself being taken over by parasitic mind-controlling bugs and because of his metal suit, Cal seems to be one of the few people unaffected. After managing to save an A-list superheroine and enough of her friends to ...more

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Jun 07, 2012 Tarl rated it it was amazing

Shelves: super-hero

It's books like this that made me get back into writing.

A day later and my mind is still running through the story. I'm still riding the emotional high off this book and can't stop talking and thinking about it. Bernheimer has created something amazing here with this book.

The characters are believeable, frustratingly so in some cases. Each character behaves as you expect them too and no one ever goes outside their character. They all evolve over the story, and their interactions drive the story It's books like this that made me get back into writing.

A day later and my mind is still running through the story. I'm still riding the emotional high off this book and can't stop talking and thinking about it. Bernheimer has created something amazing here with this book.

The characters are believeable, frustratingly so in some cases. Each character behaves as you expect them too and no one ever goes outside their character. They all evolve over the story, and their interactions drive the story as much, if not more, than the action itself. Most of what I will remember from this book, and the reason I will read it again, are the character interactions. They are gripping, engaging, and everything you'd expect from a good book.

Then there's the action, which is fast paced with just the right amount of description. The only time that I found it lacking was in the final battle where it felt like it got glazed over. But at that point, the final battle wasn't the point of the story I found, but rather the character interactions and thought patterns instead, so the story didn't lag from it. The action is also spread out over the novel well and keeps the pace of the story up.

But the thing I want to talk about that gripped me the most about this story is Cal. If you were ever an outsider in school, ever a nerd, ever felt that you didnt' have a chance in the world due to 'the popular kids', you'll relate to Cal. There were parts of this book that had me pacing my living room talking to my girlfriend about the storyline as I found it touching parts of my childhood that I hadn't thought about in years. The frustration, waiting for the other shoe to drop when I had thought it was all going to go great, and losing something I had wished I had had more than anything. There is a little of Cal's story in all of us, not to mention a fundimental storyline that anyone can relate to. He doesn't have super powers, he just has talent and skill. And yet, he still makes it work. Bernheimer hits on many things that a lot of fans of Superheros have likely delt with in their past, and it helps to engage the reader and the story is better because of it.

Again, it's books like this that brought me back into writing again.

I honestly can't recommend this book enough. I think every one of my friends has heard me recommend it to them, superhero fans or not. There is something in this for everyone, and it truely is a wonderful story and one I will definatly be reading again and again.

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Apr 15, 2016 Colleen rated it did not like it

Shelves: thriller

So even though this book is listed as #2--it's actually the first book (published in 2011), so I read it first based on that, and then I read the 2nd book, really the first after that--the "prequel." I know it's confusing and for a moment I thought I read them out of order, which I didn't but sort of did as well.

Annnnyways, this one shows it's "first" book colors in the sense that it feels like a rough draft in parts and is not as polished as what came after. Besides being the weaker of the two ...more

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Sep 07, 2011 Thomas Taylor rated it really liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I'll be honest, my expectations were not high with this title. It seemed like it would be funny and different.

I'm glad I gave it a shot because I was pleasantly surprised by this book. The book tracks a second-rate super-villain named Mechani-Cal navigating his way through an accidental apocalypse where some Super Villain's mind-control bugs escape and enslave the human population. Cal winds up saving the world.

Cal goes through a nice story-arc, from the hapless second rate villain, to hero, to ...more

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Jun 06, 2011 Morrigan rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2011-read

When Jim Bernheimer, the author, approached me for a review of this book, I wasn’t all that interested. I was more interested in his short story book Horror, Heroes and Humor (cause it had zombie stories!). So, I read the Horror, Heroes and Humor book first, which incidentally, had a novella titled “Confessions of a D-Class Supervillain”. That novella was great great great. After finishing the novella, I hurried to the “Confessions” book. Bernheimer made a few changes to the end of the novella ...more

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Sep 21, 2013 Erin Penn rated it it was amazing

Best Superhero Book Available Right Now
I bought the hardback book direct from the author at the CarolinaCon a couple years back for the boyfriend. Read it before handing it over just to make certain it was good. Story has stuck with me and I borrowed it back last year to reread.

And I just bought the Kindle version and reread it this year.

I have been reading through a lot of the superhero stories on the market recently. Jim's story is by far the best, and I believe was the story which reactivated ...more

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Oct 15, 2011 J.H. Kingsley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Jim Bernheimer has constructed a marvelously demented reality in Confessions of a D-List Supervillian. This is a world where Bugs have taken over human will, the Olympian Gods are superheroes, and one snarky, somewhat geeky villain is the only person left to save the world. Calvin Stringer, a.k.a “Mechani-Cal” is a villain on the level of Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible. Everything he does seems to work…almost. At odds with a super hero named Ultraweapon, Cal takes on the Olympians, the bugs, a ...more

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Oct 29, 2014 C.T. Phipps rated it really liked it

Shelves: superhero-literature

Damn, we need more independent fiction like this.

That's my summary of this work. I put it up there with Soon I will be Invincible for 'best superhero fiction I've read.' I even put it above Brian Clevinger's The Atomic Age, which was funnier just left a sour taste in my mouth towards the end. Confessions of a D-List Supervillain is, by contrast, remarkably upbeat for a story about a career criminal.

There's some flaws in the book, don't get me wrong. I'm not a big fan of the cover and there's ...more

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Jun 10, 2013 Vincent Bernhardt added it

Well, he's not Batman...

Then again, Cal isn't a good guy either. Not that Batman is a totally good guy... Hey, I'm not dissing one of DC's favorite sons, but Batman has his issues, doesn't he? Sorry. This isn't about Batman.
The fact that I am comparing the anti-hero of this book to Batman should say something, though.

Cal is a bad guy. He isn't very good at it, though. Sadly, he's worse at being a good guy. Yet when the chips are down and you're the guy in the metal suit that has to save the ...more

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Mar 21, 2012 Holden Attradies rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, super-heroes

Funny, fast paced, had a plot that kept up the surprises and was both true to the superhero genre yet totally unpredictable. The plot twists that the story throw at you come silently and slowly upon the reader. The final one was the best, and it makes the end of the book REALLY good, even on later reads, because you can then see the little hints that are thrown out.

The pacing for the book was incredible. It was written so that you just jump right into the story and find out about their world as ...more

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Nov 05, 2016 Robert Freeman rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

It's the end of the world, and the only person left to save it is cut-rate supervillain Calvin Stringel, a.k.a. Mechani-Cal, a bad guy so inept that his list of failures include a botched bank job that landed him in prison and a failed invasion of Branson, Missouri.

Fortunately, he's much better at being a savior than a bad guy, perhaps because he's a survivor. More likely, it's because the Rube Goldberg machine that begins with his low self-esteem -- keeping him in his suit and thus unwittingly It's the end of the world, and the only person left to save it is cut-rate supervillain Calvin Stringel, a.k.a. Mechani-Cal, a bad guy so inept that his list of failures include a botched bank job that landed him in prison and a failed invasion of Branson, Missouri.

Fortunately, he's much better at being a savior than a bad guy, perhaps because he's a survivor. More likely, it's because the Rube Goldberg machine that begins with his low self-esteem -- keeping him in his suit and thus unwittingly protected from the bugs carrying the Apocalypse-- weaves its way through infected heroes captured and locked up in his dungeons (for their own good, of course), a few less-than-epic battles, a love story, and a final battle. The deflating aftermath in which our villain learns that heroes aren't all they're cracked up to be proves to be just as interesting as the actual fight to save the world.

I loved this book almost as much as the prequel, Origins of a D-List Supervillian. While Origins gave us a meandering but thoroughly entertaining origin story, Confessions delivers a much more focused throughline. Stringel in this book is a hardened, world-weary loser whose passion and positivity were long since beaten out of him in Origins, and his quest to save himself and inadvertently the world is a fun redemption arc enhanced by its strong supporting cast.

Bernheimer does better with the supporting cast here than in Origins, which is understandable given the two storylines. Stringel's views of the various heroes and their shortcomings make not only for excellent comedy but also some solid social commentary.

I also loved that the effect of the bugs is not immediately remedied by removing the bugs -- it's treated as an addiction, and Stringel has to detox each victim. A lesser book would've handled this more cleanly, and Bernheimer deserves credit for stringing out the pain and making Stringel actually fight against heroes who don't want to be saved -- even after the bugs are removed -- rather than giving him a quick win.

Now, I didn't like this quite as much as Origins, because it got almost implausibly dark about halfway through. Surprising, considering this is more of a redemption story compared to Origins, which was about Stringel's fall but was a much lighter story. Still, this was an incredibly fun, fast-paced novel with interesting characters told from the point of view a sympathetic but unscrupulous protagonist. I'm definitely looking forward to the next book in the series. ...more

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May 09, 2011 Karissa rated it really liked it

I got an e-copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. This book is an expansion of a novella included in Horror, Humor, and Heroes by Jim Bernheimer. The first part of the book is that same story, but it is expanded to look at events that take place after the end of the original novella.

MechaniCAL was a bottom of the barrel supervillain until evil mind-controlling bugs took over the world. Now he seems to be one of the only people with uncontrolled thoughts and is stuck ...more

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May 21, 2012 Amanda rated it really liked it

I'm stepped out of my usual romance genre and decided to read something different. Maybe I'm on a high after seeing "The Avengers" this weekend, but I really enjoyed delving into a world of superheroes and villains. What I liked most about this book: the hero was an ass. He knew this, didn't apologize for it, nor did he let anyone really change him from who he was. While other characters hem-hawed around him, he kept true to himself. He is like other genius artist I've met--don't bother me ...more

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Jan 19, 2012 Tom rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-on-cd, science-fiction, fantasy

This book was not what I expected. I was thinking I would find something funny and probably a little dumb. What I got was a hilarious story with non-stop action and great characters.

Calvin Stengel had high hopes for his life. He is a brilliant mechanical engineer, had a great job with a superhero's company and things were looking until. Until they fired him, stole his designs and blackballed him from the industry. His only option then was to turn to a life of crime. Calvin becomes Mechani-CAL, a ...more

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Aug 21, 2012 PsypherPunk rated it it was ok

I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy this. And although I'm frequently glad the Goodreads rating system says "I liked it" rather than "I thought it was good", here's a book that I have trouble admitting I enjoyed.

The protagonist is a criminally misunderstood anti-hero who's a mechanical genius, more moral than his heroic colleagues and manages to get none other than the modern incarnation of the Goddess of Love to fall in love with him (technically more than once).

It's puerile, it's overly ...more

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Sep 29, 2011 Edward Becerra rated it it was amazing

I found this book to be hilarious!

The "let's see things from the bad guy's point of view" has been done before, as well as the "POV of a low-level mook." But this combination of the two is unexpectedly humorous, and the casting of "UltraWeapon" (to my eyes, a parody of Tony Stark/Iron Man) as a back-stabbing, womanizing, jealous glory-hound of a billionaire really made me smile.

There's a very entertaining "film noir" sound to this book, and it's one of the books I'll be happy to keep on my shelf ...more

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Jul 26, 2018 Liz rated it it was ok

Shelves: funny, beta-hero, dark, superheroes, confusing, magic

I really went outside of my comfort zone here, and I felt like a fish out of water.

This is told from the male protagonist's POV, had almost zero romance and, other than the superhero fights, read like a telenovela.

The hero is mind controlled into sleeping with one of his hero teammates (who is also mind controlled), she ends up pregnant and he later fakes his own death, but then his ex-girlfriend Aphrodite figures out he's still alive and gets her memories back after being mind-wiped and she ...more

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Sep 25, 2011 Manny rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

The best part about the book was the quips which Mechani-CAL gave throughout. The action sequences and the fighting style reminded me of Bartimaeus.

Highly recommended for fans of superhero genre esp. Iron Man. Can't wait for more books from Jim.

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Feb 22, 2012 Elspeth rated it liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy, lendle

This book was really fun, the author must have had a blast writing it.

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Apr 11, 2019 Charles rated it liked it

If you're a fan of superheroes, comic books, and Comic-Con you’ll like this book.

The book is a pulp novel-length comic book grounded in the Marvel/DC universes trope(s) of superhero teams: Avengers, Justice League, etc.. It’s a little more ironic than the pictorial stories, shading more toward Marvel in how dysfunctional these teams and superheroes ought to be. The author likely put his tongue through his cheek while writing this. It’s a superhero meets super girl during Apocalypse, super boy ...more

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Dec 18, 2013 David rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, superheroes, self-published, science-fiction

Calvin Stringel, aka "Mechani-Cal," is, as the title of his autobiography indicates, a D-list supervillain. He's that guy you barely remember who took up about 4 pages in issue #277 six years ago. Spider-Man beat him up once, and maybe he was part of a gang that got flattened by the Avengers during an ill-conceived plan to raid Fort Knox.

Mechani-Cal is basically, as he is repeatedly reminded, a cheap knockoff of Ultraweapon, who is this universe's Iron Man. As the story starts, however, the Calvin Stringel, aka "Mechani-Cal," is, as the title of his autobiography indicates, a D-list supervillain. He's that guy you barely remember who took up about 4 pages in issue #277 six years ago. Spider-Man beat him up once, and maybe he was part of a gang that got flattened by the Avengers during an ill-conceived plan to raid Fort Knox.

Mechani-Cal is basically, as he is repeatedly reminded, a cheap knockoff of Ultraweapon, who is this universe's Iron Man. As the story starts, however, the villainous Overlord has unleashed a plague of mind-controlling insects that have taken over most of the planet. Mechani-Cal, by staying in his armor for the last few weeks, is one of the few free-willed humans left on Earth. When he runs into the Olympians — the most powerful superhero team on Earth, and all mind-controlled — he manages to free Aphrodite from her mental enslavement. They head back to his secret underground base, which is basically a rathole in a junkyard.

The plot thenceforth flows in heroic fashion as Mechani-Cal ends up literally helping save the world, and thus "reformed," tries to earn a pardon for all past crimes by joining the good guys. Of course, none of them trust him, and Calvin is, while not truly evil, certainly not a hero. And he's now dating Aphrodite. Who used to be dating Ultraweapon. Ultraweapon doesn't take this very well.

Mechani-Cal is actually a "realistic" character given the givens of a superhero universe. The explanation for how an engineering genius has wound up being a low-rent villain mostly known for getting pounded by any hero he has the misfortune to fight makes sense, and Cal's struggle to redeem himself, without really feeling like he needs redemption, makes him a character you root for even if he is still kind of a jerk. It helps that it turns out that some of the heroes are even bigger jerks.

Cal levels up in a big way over the course of the book. He also gets to bang two of the most beautiful and powerful superheroines in the world, despite being a nerdy, unattractive ex-villain. A wish-fulfillment fantasy? Oh yeah. But he never really stops being a dork who screws up more often than he succeeds. And yet, he's very human and endearing in a fallible way. He continually does all the right things, not necessarily for the right reasons.

I enjoyed this book quite a lot. It was like a good miniseries based on some obscure mainstream comics character that a writer took a shine to, except of course these are all characters who exist only in this book.

3.5 stars, which I am rounding up to 4 because yo, superheroes! ...more

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Jun 14, 2011 Heather Faville rated it it was amazing

Technically 4.5, but rounding up for this one.

Calvin Matthew Stringel, or Mechani-CAL, is a villain who is down on his luck. He was on the bottom rung of the supervillain ladder and didn't seem to be heading upward anytime soon. That is until evil mind controlling bugs began to take over the world. Now this armored supervillain just might be the world's only hope against these superbugs set on world domination. But the question remains, will CAL remain the villain he longs to become or will the ...more

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Jan 03, 2013 Brian Foster rated it it was amazing

In Confessions of a D-List Supervillain, Mr. Bernheimer tells the story of Calvin Stringel, an electrical engineer who makes bad choices. After a employment dispute with one of the heavyweight superheroes, he decides to turn to crime, but he’s not very good at it. The world, as it’s wont to do, becomes endangered, and all the do-gooders have been converted to the dark side. It’s up to Mechani-Cal to save the day.

Why to buy this book: This novel is entertaining from start to finish, a true joy to ...more

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Oct 20, 2014 Bruce rated it really liked it

Shelves: digital, audible

This book was much shorter than my typical books, but was a compact book of excitement, world building and fun. The premise is the world has been accidently been taken over by a Supervillain's brain control worms (explosion at the supervillain's base causes the uncontrolled release of the worms). All that is left is a few folks who haven't been turned. One of which is Mechani-Cal, a self-proclaimed D-List supervillain in a power suit (think Lex Luthor) who ends up teaming with the most beautiful ...more

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Sep 12, 2011 Chris Cline rated it really liked it

Again with the Superhero novel? This was a late pickup for my pile of Superhero novels, one I only approached after reading another blog's review. The novel takes place in a world with lots of Superheros and Supervillians. However in this novel, the world finally decides to go to hell. An accident by either a Supervillian, or other unleashes an small apocalypse on the world, one were all the Superheroes get taken over, leaving one lone minor level Supervillian, trying to decide whether to save ...more

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Sep 07, 2017 Amberfaye rated it it was amazing

Funny. Ending was a little too perfect.

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Feb 11, 2016 Cloak88 rated it really liked it

Shelves: reread, 2016, superhero, favorites, sci-fi

Are you a hero if you fail as villain?

MechaniCal or just Cal is a villain. A poor, downtrodden, semi-retired D-list villain, but a supervillain all the same... And now he wishes he was anything or anywhere else. Pursued by the word's premier superhero team "The Olympians". In his old and battered battle armour he has to figure out what is going on, how to get out of there and stay alive while doing that.... Ohh and the entire world, (including the hero's) are being mind controlled.

In short this ...more

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Jim lives in Chesapeake, Virginia with his wife Kim, and daughters Laura and Marissa. By day, he works as a Systems Administrator on a government contract and runs his own side Information Technology consulting firm, EJB Networking, which can be found at www.ejbnetworking.com

Blessed (or cursed depending on your point of view) with an overactive imagination, Jim has long been a fan of Science ...more