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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History - Jon Morris</h1>
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2020-02-02
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/reviews/">#reviews</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fun/">#fun</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/superheroes/">#superheroes</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/jon-morris/">#jon morris</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-4/">#stars:4</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2020/">#books:2020</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164984-the-league-of-regrettable-superheroes">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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You know about Batman, Superman, and Spiderman, but have you heard of Doll
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Man, Doctor Hormone, or Spider Queen? In The League of Regrettable
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Superheroes, you’ll meet one hundred of the strangest superheroes ever to see
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print, complete with backstories, vintage art, and colorful commentary. So
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prepare yourself for such not-ready-for-prime-time heroes as Bee Man (Batman,
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but with bees), the Clown (circus-themed crimebuster), the Eye (a giant,
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floating eyeball; just accept it), and many other oddballs and oddities.
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Drawing on the entire history of the medium, The League of Regrettable
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Superheroes will appeal to die-hard comics fans, casual comics readers, and
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anyone who enjoys peering into the stranger corners of pop culture.</p>
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★★★★☆
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<p>An encyclopedia of failed super-heroes.</p>
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<p>The intro for the book is really good in the point that, today, super-heroes
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are all in rage in the movies. But there are those who failed to get some
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attention and died in the darkness of the comic book world.</p>
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<p>So, here they are.</p>
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<p>I just felt it could have a bit more about the background of the heroes. Sure,
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some were promotional heroes (like NFL hero, the trucker hero, and so on) but
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still, what was the catalyst for the creation of such hero: Was it the times,
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the culture change, some requirement from higher ups, drugs...? Also, powers:
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Some have a short list of super powers they got, but they are not complete --
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surely, it's mentioned that some heroes go through several revisions, so their
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powers change, but one could consider a revision another hero and just keep
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the powers with the heroes+revision. I'm saying this 'cause, as an
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encyclopedia, it would be nice to have an index by powers, so when one is
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looking for that hero that have, say, the power to create bubbles, one could
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just check the index for "bubbles" and there you go.</p>
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<p>The book also need some more careful work by the editors. There are a couple
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of misspellings around, like a "thsoe" in the middle of the sentence. It's not
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that hard to figure out what was meant in these cases, but still... annoying.</p>
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