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The Adventures of Heroman is a post-modern superhero tale about former superheroes and villains living in a world that's not so sure it needs or wants superheroes any more. This book contains the scripts for season one, which is comprised of four acts. The audio version contains a voiceover character who narrates the action as if he's narrating a 1940s-era Superman radio drama, despite the fact that the characters are dealing with mundane situations like group therapy and couple's counseling.

Spencer Harrington is the son of the Crimson Mask, the world's most powerful Augment. Ever since witnessing his mother's abduction by a psychotic supervillain two years ago, he's been confined to his father's arctic bunker. Haunted by nightmares and tired of eating cardboard rations in the "Icehole", Spencer launches into his father's dangerous world to uncover his mother's fate.

Ten-year-old Will Choner has an unusual ability, one he inherited from his dead father and one his mother has forbidden him from using. But when Will's uncle shows up at the door, Will is tempted to use it again...to find that missing girl on the news.

Follow the further adventures of the villainess Capricious Whim as she suffers the consequences of killing the double-crossing fixer who had set her up. It's hard being a villain...and even harder when the local contacts think you could be out to get them. Realizing she needs to have someone to watch her back and negotiate jobs for her, Caprice is in a sticky situation...but she needs the perfect partner.

Michael is just an ordinary, average, normal, everyday middle schooler in the perfect town of Lincolnshire, a town that happens to have more superheroes per square mile than anywhere else on the planet. What could possibly go wrong, surrounded by so many people capable of destroying the town with a snap of their fingers?

Not even a day has passed since the regrouping of long-dormant superhero team Fate's Fighters, but leader Jack Quick has already been abducted! How can the remaining Fighters possibly track down their missing leader? And when the shadowy villain pulling the strings makes his chilling presence known, can the Fighters claw their way back to sanity?

Xana Jace keeps her head down. It isn't easy when you stand seven feet, eight inches tall. She works the night shift and stays out of trouble, striving only to be reunited with her son. But she's running out of time. The strange disease that compels her body to grow also threatens to choke her heart. When a masked gangster terrorizes the small community that shelters her, Xana is left with a terrible choice, and just 24 hours to discover the truth that everything she believes is a lie.

I just can't believe I slammed the door in Reagan MacPherson's face last night. Is her situation just like mine? Does she have some sort of smartass alien entity inside her brain? Is she registered? Do her friends know? Is she stronger than me? Does this somehow make me look hot to her? Is Liberty - the World's Greatest Hero - going to come after her like the way he's going to come after me? My name is Gabe Garrison, and this is the second volume of my story ...

Welcome to The Egg, an off-campus geodesic dome where David Fuffman and his crew of alienated Princeton students train for what might be the end of days: America is in a perpetual state of war, climate disasters create a global state of emergency, and scientists believe time itself may be collapsing. Funded by the charismatic Mathias Blue and fueled by performance enhancers and psychedelic drugs, a student revolution incubates at The Egg, inspired by the superheroes that dominate American culture. The arrival of Haley Roth - an impassioned heroine with a dark secret - propels David and Mathias to expand their movement across college campuses nationwide.

Wynne is intrigued but nervous about her new friend’s paranoid claims that he has ESP and a monomaniacal researcher has been pursuing him for decades. But after a brutal attempted kidnapping, she realizes that Lord’s life is as bizarre and more dangerous than she had ever imagined. The couple flee Portland, Oregon, and travel across the country in an effort to get Lord the freedom he finally deserves. They assemble a team of misfits with varying abilities before facing a life-or-death challenge with international ramifications.

The last time the racist dictator known as the Archon came to Arcadia, he mistook X for an old nemesis and beat him to within an inch of his life. Now the Archon is back, along with his actual nemesis, a mysterious figure called the Mark--and their ancient battle threatens to tear Arcadia to the ground! Even if X can halt a superpowered grudge match, can he rescue his beloved city from the scars it leaves?

When you're the king of the mountain, everyone wants to see you fall. He’s secured all three Relics. All problems solved, right? Wrong. Monsters from the Gate roam deserted Earth and Daniel Hunt is first in line to chase them down. Meanwhile, an invisible enemy increases its hold on the human race; infecting one by one as it spreads across the population. This alien pandemic soon reaches those closest to Daniel.The Galactic Government looks to W.O.L.F. led by Daniel Hunt for help in their darkest hour. Will the aid of the Relics be enough?

Dating. Bullies. Grades. High School has enough angst for anyone, especially Andy - a brilliant individual who fellow students classify as a nerd. That is until, one day, his ultimate comic book fantasy comes true. A freak accident grants him the power to become an actual superhero. Lots of strength. Super speed. The whole nine yards. There's just one catch, the superhero he turns into is female. It's a tale of strength, character, and kisses.

Willow Thistle had been underestimated her entire life. She was small, pretty, and quiet. A perfect Background Character, if she had not been sorted into Villain. Despite her lack of socialization, Willow was a genius, creating bombs and developing other useful tools to help her be the best Villain she could be. With the help of her brother, Warren, Willow was unstoppable. Of course, she also didn’t have a Hero to stop her.

When the world is thrown into a panic from the imminent threat of a gigantic asteroid worth a Quintilian dollars, the Capes are asked to protect the planet from certain doom. But it's not just the destructive force of the impact that everyone fears: it's greed.

As Lara Dominguez settles into her new role as the Black Ghost—the corrupt city of Creighton's last defense—she finds herself face to face with a monster borne out of the city's own dark past. Can she handle her new foe while trying to balance her own shaky personal and professional lives?

A famous author finds out that her past books have come back to haunt her and her assistant as they write another book.

With her dad held captive at the Darling Donut factory, Kallie and AB race to the scene. And while Kallie's too scared to do much more than follow AB's lead, she's left speechless as AB does the unthinkable: Consume one of her own radioactive doughnuts.

People began to develop unexplained abilities. Biological Enhanced Nascent Talents seemed to appear at random. There was no particular genetic reason for 15 percent of the human population to be affected. Talents developed skills that set them apart from the great majority of those affected.

Name’s Jess, and I have superpowers. A lot of them. You’d think that would make life easier. Wrong. Dead wrong. Having many superpowers landed me my first job out of college. (Translation: The government sent suited sweet-talkers with a carrot-and-stick approach to kidnap me and set me to reviewing superpowers.) Job Pros: Reviewing powers pays well, and my family stays off the scary people’s list of things-to-kill-today. Job Cons: It comes with a billion strings attached and a side serving of life-and-death situations.