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Soon I Will Be Invincible

Austin Grossman

Start date: January 21, 2019

Finish date: February 15, 2019

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Mar 21, 2014 Jim rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-and-kids, comic, 1audio, 2fiction

Very well read comic book from two points of view that of Dr. Impossible, the super villain, & a young super hero in alternate chapters. The voice of Dr. Impossible is especially good. Instead of avoiding tropes, this book embraces them all, gives us the origins & motivations of each with a fairly twisty ending including a real shocker, but one that made sense. It was a lot of fun & perfect in this format. I don't think it would have read as well in paper, even graphic format, for me. ...more

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Mar 28, 2009 Tom rated it it was ok

Shelves: hard-copy

Mildly entertaining superhero story told mostly from the perspective of the villain. A super-group aims to take him down. They are somewhat analogous to the Justice League in DC comics... ex: the tortured Batman-type character, an all-American Superman-type character.

I thought the attempt to strip away some of gloss and give real human motivations to comic book super-heroes (and villains)was interesting, but not really strong enough. Would being overlooked and under-appreciated really make some ...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Scot rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy

Enjoyable read though it dragged at times. Told through the alternating perspective of the evil genius (whose perspective I enjoyed the most) and the newest member of a team of heroes. It was nice to read a superhero book that was made up of brand new characters not the typical DC and Marvel heroes that we are all used too but they were clearly composites from the author's likely comics obsession from childhood. The story just built and built to the point you knew he had a clever plot twist in m ...more

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