Sunday, January 12, 2020

A Golden Age: Searching for Supers.

What I try to look for in superhero prose:

  • Optimism (The World is Worth Saving)
  • The Hero/Heroine goes through the Crucible and comes out wiser but fundamentally unchanged at the core of self. IE: A fundamentally good person who learns but doesn't change to suit the world but rather changes that world for the better.
  • Team/Side Characters to root for. 
  • Looks like the Antagonist has all the Cards but the Heroes will get a big damned Captain Sheridan Moment. 
  • Hardly any Recognizable "Current Year" politics. IE: R vs D, ect.
  • An Escape from the Mundane
  • If it has a Cosmic factor, all the better.
  • If its more realistic, more Astro City types please, rather then Watchmen and/or the Boys. Because that's far more Deconstruction. 
What appears to be Popular or What People are writing more of:

  • Dystopia! THE WORLD SUCKS!
  • Marvel levels of Political Insertion (IE Civil War I and II) I hated this in Identity Crisis for DC too. Blarg.
  • Anti-Heroes
  • RPG Lit
  • Harems/Rev. Harems
  • Which Current Year + issues are you going to add to a series that's supposed to be about capes. 
For me, these are the gold tier of superhero prose I am looking for:



I try to find things that ignore our world's politics because its everywhere. On all platforms. 24/hr news cycle. So, in the end, some series give escapism better then others. Even if its not up to my own personal preferences Ill still go through and try to find more Prose Series.

These series share something in common besides my own preferences, they are filled with characters you can root for.

Plus this gives me ideas on how I should promote my own series when it comes time to launch. Even in my own searching, when someone compares their books to Babylon 5 in a blurb, it makes me sit up and take notice. 

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