Reddit reviews Steelheart (The Reckoners)

Have the stuffed animal Velveteen-type cape (Parian; I looked it up) solve a film noir style mystery.

Oh, you wanted me to reccommend one for you to read, not to write. Never mind.

Have you already read the (actual books, not fanfic) Reckoner series? It starts with Steelheart

Fanfics are nice too, but I haven't really been engaged by any for Worm yet.

Well, it's not fantasy... but Brandon Sanderson's "The Reckoners" is top notch stuff. Book 2 comes out in January 2015.

From the wiki:

> "Steelheart is the story of a world full of superheroes who are called Epics. Or actually, supervillains. They took over the world with their powers and rule cities like Newcago, where ordinary people try to survive. One such supervillain is Steelheart, an Epic with invincible powers, who killed the father of an average teenager named David. But every Epic has his own weakness, and it's David's goal to find Steelheart's weakness and take revenge for the murder of his father. But in order to succeed he must join the Reckoners, a group of citizens that banded together to assassinate Epics. David has something valuable to offer; not a weapon but an experience. He has seen Steelheart bleed."

Nobody likes Superheroes. so we're fixing them. Fixing them good. With our words.

Including: Pedantic Definition of Terms! Amateurish audio quality! That Spawn Album! Not the Spawn Album you're thinking of, the worse one!


OK, so Metropolis isn't Wilmington, DE. It's more like Dover, DE

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Not exactly what you described, but you might check out Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385743572/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_p2rQAbNPEYVPN

I'll just throw in there are actually quite a few book series that focus on superheros, but aren't adaptions.

George R.R. Martin edits a series called Wild Cards which he refers to as mosaic novels. He and his friends will right a series of short stories which fit into a novel, each novel is part of a trilogy, and each trilogy is part of the larger world. The series has been going on since the 80's. The first one Wildcards was recently republished with added material. If you want to skip forward though Inside Straight was written to be a good jumping on point.

Brandon Sanderson recently wrote a series called The Reckoners , where people with Superpowers have taken over the world and

I haven't read these, but Vicious is supposed to be really good as well. Ex-Heroes is massup of the Superhero and zombie genres, I can't speak to it's quality, but it's fairly successful.

I know it isn't exactly what you're looking for, but I thought these might interest you.

Edit: Oh, and if you are interested in the Wildcards series, I would highly suggest reading the first novel even if you skip forward afterwards. The first book is essentially a series of short stories that tell the history of the Wildcards from their appearance in the 40's to the 80's when the rest start taking place.

I've actually just started reading Worm for the first time. I tried reading it a while back and couldn't get into it. Doing better this time. Some basic thoughts:

• Why is it called Worm instead of Parahumans?
  
  
• It sure looks derivative. I've seen these tropes somewhere before. This is just another take on The Incredibles, isn't it?
  
  
• I really hate Taylor. I'm taking Emma's side on this one. I mean, how can the girl make such consistently bad decisions all the time? She's just a waste of human flesh.
  
  
• Tattletale, on the other hand, is awesome! We're getting married. As soon as I figure out how.
  
  
• Why Arcs? Each Arc would be a Chapter in any other book! Why it have to be all hipster?