"They went after a burning building their first time out? Very traditional."
- Celia West's grownup daughter of superheroes, about the next generation's kids in Carrie Vaughn's novel "Dreams of the Golden Age".
"That feeling of being powerless and useless and superfluous? That doen't go away when you get superpowers. I wish I had a group of people I could blame for why I can't seem to make a difference."
- a superheroine to her angry younger sister in Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag's web-comic "Strong Female Protagonist".
There is good stuff out there about the genre, besides Kurt Busiek's "AstroCity". Take a look.
- Celia West's grownup daughter of superheroes, about the next generation's kids in Carrie Vaughn's novel "Dreams of the Golden Age".
"That feeling of being powerless and useless and superfluous? That doen't go away when you get superpowers. I wish I had a group of people I could blame for why I can't seem to make a difference."
- a superheroine to her angry younger sister in Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag's web-comic "Strong Female Protagonist".
There is good stuff out there about the genre, besides Kurt Busiek's "AstroCity". Take a look.