Soon I Will Be Invincible

I didn't much like it. The story itself was okay, and I kind of liked the part was "the champions" part, and maybe it's just that I found the personalities (well, the main personality) distasteful at best, but section on the villains was pretty bad.
For one thing, I could never tell whether the narrator speaking in the present, the past, even the future. Time in general, in the book was somewhat ethereal and unknowable. I don't know, overall, it was just a story that just didn't make or leave any kind of positive impression on me.

He did it. He made a novel about super heroes. And it was good. Really good. Interesting, fun, and all original characters (based off comic characters, obviously).

What novelistic insights he was able to offer into superheroic tropes were stale and unoriginal (the Wild Cards series did all of it better), his versions of the famous characters he didn't have the licenses to use were boring (Identity Crisis starred the actual Justice League, so I cared how those characters reacted to human tragedy, unlike these stiffs), and even the massive crossover events he seemed to relish describing in breathless paragraphs sounded dull. At least he had a clever way of framing the inexplicable nature of supervillains, ascribing it to a clinical condition with an acronym and everything, but that bit came early in the book, and never amounted to anything with the supervillain POV main character.

If you've ever been into comics, this is worth a read. It's easy going and pretty funny in spots. The character of the megalomaniac villain, Dr. Impossible, is particularly well done.

A very entertaining book that takes place in a world of superheroes and supervillians, where every notion you ever read in a comic book was actually true. The book follows the perspectives of two characters, Doctor Impossible, the evil genius from Iowa who tries to conquer the world repeatedly, and that of Fatale, the female cyborg with no memory of her past trying to come to grips with finding herself amongst the greatest of superheroes.

It's a wonderfully fun book, and the author has a delightful sense of humor that enjoys playing with, but never mocking, the material.