The Basic Checklist

So what do I want out of my Superhero Space Opera? Well:

Besides interesting world building and characters, the short list for now, a mix and match of things I've enjoyed over the years wrapped up into on giant buffet.

1. Optimism
2. Silver Age Fun
3. Lensmen
4. Flash Gordon
5. Babylon 5
6. Space Doggos (There's a whole planet of them, I call them Bardaxians.)
7. Superman x Green Lantern Cosmic Fun times
8. Area 51
9. The Grays
10. Atlantis
11. Mars
12. Dyson Spheres
13. O'Neil Cylinders
14. Space Elevators and Habitat Rings 
15. Cheeky Reverences to Stuff I love. 
16. Unified Earth
17. No Current Year Politics
18. Escapism
19. Gallivanting around the Solar System
20. Multiverses
21. Extra Solar Adventures
22. "Dead" Extra Solar Civilizations/Some actual dead ones too.
23. Ancient Vendetta! 
24. No Love Triangles
25. Family Secrets that will Bring everyone Closer, not apart.

I hope some will love reading it as much as I've had writing it.

Some of my favorite tropes going into this thing are:

• Good is not dumb. In this setting, people will guide The Star-Spangled Banner on her journey but she's not going to have the idiot ball just to make something happen. Some events she will react to and some she will instigate. 
• Some of her memories are locked away for plot purposes. It will all become much clearer later. If she doesn't know on hand certain kinds of information, the bad guys can't just pluck it from her memory. 
• School is only a very minor part of it all because the series is about escaping the mundane. Ill have maybe 4 or 5 chapters dealing directly with Senior Year and all that. I put it into the plot that the super team doesn't really have to worry about school because of a kinda youth science program that's giving them "credits". That way I can mostly gloss over the school part unless its relevant to the main plot. I get why so many superhero prose stuff starts with a MC at a High Schooler but I wanted to get past that super quick. Heck, the main super cast wont even have time to do the whole college thing. Which is fine by me. Gonna be too busy exploring space! And the hidden wonders on Earth. 
• Star's Parents are an actual happy married couple. No dead dads or moms in my story. Even if her father has an angry ex-wife. Even that character will have an arc that will go places. Positive Growth places. :D

From the looks of it there isn't too much out there in the Superhero Prose section that is going the more Optimism route besides One Last Echo , New Olympus Saga, Action Figures, and even Kid Sensation. So I hope to add some good old fashioned hope to the mix. Not to say other prose series are bad. It's just there's so much that goes the route of the Punisher. Plus we need more longer running series like Hero Status, Superheroes Anonymous or Just Cause Universe (Even if I'm skipping book 7 because it has a R vs D Civil War Event that is an instant turn off for me.) Even the Ex-Heroes Series shows promise even if its cross splat with zombies.

Sanderson's Reckoners is pretty good but its on the dystopian side. IE: Humanity sucks so when we get super powers we become tyrants. So I want to help create balance in the Super Genre.

Meyer's Renegades is a mishmash of "Awesome!" Capes! Buuuuuuuuut.....again, it falls into the Dystopian side. How long is that going to be popular I wonder. Cosmic Girl starts out very rough, both book wise and story wise, but it has more in common with what I am looking for. In a sea of dystopia, anything that has more hope shining through automatically hits my radar. Or funny stuff like Mercury Hale.