Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

She has no idea who she used to be before being turned into a six-foot-four 500-pound cyborg, but she knows that she has the power to do good, and so she joins the Champions - the current incarnation of the world’s greatest super-team. The other half of the novel is told from the point of view of a new superhero, Fatale. Impossible is remarkably genre-aware he realizes he monologues, he knows he has a tendency to lose at certain times, and he can see the flaws in his own plans. He’s built several doomsday devices, but every time he gets close to winning, the superhero of the day - usually CoreFire, his nemesis - ruins things. Super-smart and super-strong (the latter due to various changes he’s undergone over the years), Impossible’s goal is to rule the world. The villain, Doctor Impossible, is the main character of the novel and in many ways is the protagonist, even though he’s a bad guy. Soon I Will Be Invincible is the story of a superhero and a supervillain.

I got an electronic copy of it about a year ago and really wanted to read it, but I’ve been busy. So, as a fan of superhero stuff, I’ve been aware of Austin Grossman’s Soon I Will Be Invincible for quite some time. I’ve even written a superhero novel of my own (it’s not published yet, but I’m working on that). I’ve been consuming superhero media for pretty much my entire life, and I’m always interested in how creators address the various superhero topics. The very first superhero fiction I ever read was a four-book series of Superman’s origins, written for kids *. The very first superhero fiction I ever saw was the old Lynda Carter Wonder Woman show.

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman