Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman is a traditional superhero story told in a nontraditional way and is bad ass. First off you lazy bots and meatbags are actually going to have to read a novel without pretty pictures to look at. At 318 pages I know its a lot to ask but trust me that it is well worth it. The story is told from the perspective of both a superhero and a supervillian. Doctor Impossible is the fourth smartest man alive and of course was a geeky loser in high school and college who made a mistake in his lab that turned him into a super strong, super fast, super tough bad ass. Would he use this power for good? Of course not, he was going to make everyone who never gave him the recognition he deserved realize they fucked up. Right after he breaks out of prison for the twelfth time that is.

On the flip side of Doctor Impossible we have Fatale and the Champions. Fatale was a normal girl who got hit by a truck in Brazil and was turned into a cyborg by a mysterious disappearing company, and it messes with her head pretty badly especially because she has no idea who she is or where she came from. Grossman gives the reader a look into the side of super powered life that is usually left out of the comics; the long hours in between saving the world, the wanting to bone your teammates, dealing with the awkward divorced teammates and the ones you think might be delusional, and filling the shoes of the dead ones you’ve replaced. All issues that are very interesting and dealt with well by Grossman and done in a way that makes you laugh.

I dont want to give to much away so I’ll end with a nice little quote from a showdown between Doctor Impossible and the New Champions. “It’s time to go and face them. To prepare them, as we say in the trade, a proper reception. Welcome to my island, assholes.”