Shrinking the Heroes Minister Faust Books
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WINNER Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award (2007) SPECIAL CITATION (Runner-Up) Philip K. Dick Award (2007) Meet the F*O*O*J, the World’s Greatest Heroes OMNIPOTENT MAN A body with the density of steel, and a brain to match THE FLYING SQUIRREL Aging playboy industrialist by day, avenging krypto-fascist by night IRON LASS Mythology’s greatest warrior, but the world might be safer if she had a husband X-MAN Formerly of the League of Angry Blackmen, but not formerly enough THE BROTHERFLY Radioactively fly POWER GRRRL Perpetually deciding between fighting crime or promoting her latest album, clothing line or sex scandal They’re Earth’s mightiest super-team. And dysfunctional as hell. Having survived arch-criminal assaults in the 1950s, intergalactic aggression in the 1960s, affirmative action battles in the 1970s, and having finally defeated all its arch-enemies in a battle global in the 1980s, the F*O*O*J finds itself in a peaceful world without super villains--and thus bereft of a mandate. Without external foes, the phenomenal F*O*O*Jsters are reduced to waging toxic office politics rife with their own arcane idiosyncrasies, bizarre perversions, mutual contempt and explosive neuroses, leading to what must sooner or later be a workplace super-powered civil war. Only one woman can save them from themselves Dr. Janice Brain-Silverman, AKA Doctor Brain, the world’s leading therapist for the extraordinarily-abled. But when the planet’s most hallowed hero dies unexpectedly, career-ending depression descends, accusations fly and conspiracy theories boil--is the age of heroes truly over, or has an old foe returned to exact revenge on them all? Can the F*O*O*J survive its two greatest threats assassination and group therapy? Advance Praise for "UNMASKED! When Being a Superhero Can’t Save You From Yourself" by Doctor Brain “Brilliant, easy-to-implement life-changing guidance and classic examples from the careers of our greatest legends, written by the leading therapist of the extraordinarily-abled.” --The Übermensch Reader “If I’d had this book twenty years ago I could’ve saved myself decades of rage, violence and self-loathing, not to mention a $4 billion judgement against me by the city.” --Clifford David Stinson, AKA the Blue Smasher “Were I still at my psychiatric practice and had I not begun my career of mental butchery that led to my incarceration, I would unreservedly recommend this fine volume to all my living patients.” --Menton the Destroyer About the author Dr. Janice Brain-Silverman lives and works at the Hyper-Potentiality Clinic inside the refurbished Mount Palomax Observatory in Los Ditkos. She has been helping hyper-hominids for over twenty years, and is the author of such best-sellers as Seven Habits of Highly Defective Nemeses Why Do Bad Villains “Happen” to Good Heroes? Evil Geniuses Who Hate Humanity and the Women Who Love Them Sacred Identity Reclaiming the Demi-God in You Secrets from Menton’s Brain Using Two Lefts to Make Yourself Right Being Super-Mom in Today’s Multiverse Side-Kicked! When the Alpha-Hero Treats You Like Omega Bulletproof, Schmulletproof Secret Origins, Starring Your Miserable Life
Shrinking the Heroes Minister Faust Books
Like psychiatry? Like superheroes? Want to see what happens when the two intersect? Add in Minister Faust's ear for language, spot-on skewering of pop (and academic) psychological tropes, superhero comic conventions, and racial issues in the world of high-powered hyperhumans (and in the world of ordinary folks). Recommended read -- or, as Mr.X-Man would say, "Kot-tam tasty!"Product details
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Shrinking the Heroes Minister Faust Books Reviews
Nobody does deconstruction and rebuilding of genres like Minister Faust. Humor, action, and prose to die for. Shrinking the Heroes will remind you why you originally fell in love with heroes and why modern times pretty much killed them. If you have a love of imagination and spandex, this book is not recommended it is required.
I have this book under its other title, 'From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain'. I don't hand out 5*s like candy, so I'll explain why I like it so much.
The characters are well-developed and layered, in spite of a very narrow-minded first-person narrator. They go through their own struggles and move easily between realism and cartoon motion. The setting is brilliantly subversive, and the ending...I can't talk about it. It's amazing. Also, as a person with a counselling degree and plenty of knowledge about self help, this book was too deliciously satirical and on the mark not to enjoy.
The only criticism I have is that it's a bit expository and some readers might not like the political stuff. Me, I thrive on that.
So, for brilliant and perfectly-tuned prose, ripping satire, and a superhero story you'll never forget, look no further. This book is a must-read. Faust's other books are also fantastic, and should be next on your list.
Like psychiatry? Like superheroes? Want to see what happens when the two intersect? Add in Minister Faust's ear for language, spot-on skewering of pop (and academic) psychological tropes, superhero comic conventions, and racial issues in the world of high-powered hyperhumans (and in the world of ordinary folks). Recommended read -- or, as Mr.X-Man would say, "Kot-tam tasty!"
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