Possibly one of my all-time favourite reads, All My Friends Are Superheroes is a delightfully economic and intelligent little book detailing the efforts of non-superhero Tom in getting his wife to see him again after she is hypnotised into thinking he is invisible at their wedding.
Of course, whilst the plot is riveting and surreal and simplistic and smart, the real gem at the heart of the book is the concept - a group of 250 normal people in Toronto, Canada who find that they have - often useless or inhibiting - 'super powers'. It works as a simple but effective metaphor for the things that make up who we are - and helps to illustrate the characters using as little as possible: for example, pretty much the only thing we know about Hypno is that he can hypnotise people - but this and the way in which he uses his power helps us to understand him as a spiteful, inadequate bastard-face - the Superheroes equivalent of a pathological liar.
If you're into love, superheroes, smart reads and don't have much time on your hands for reading, All My Friends is a super-simple, masterfully written and wonderfully original little piece of writing that you absolutely have to read.
Pages: 108
Bottom Line: 500 Days of Summer meets Scott Pilgrim meets The Avengers - in a book.
Bottom Line: 500 Days of Summer meets Scott Pilgrim meets The Avengers - in a book.
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