Book review: League of Regrettable Superheroes

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