Comments on "An Open Rant to Aspiring Superheroes"

[jack]

http://cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com/896631.html

I liked seeing how suspicious many people were about the League of Superheroes in this story. I tried to make the other groups realistically varied, evil like hedge funds or illegal wars, with a fairly stable place in the world even if you don't like it, rather than like Demons of Pure Evil (which I think is a problem with many superhero stories). But I intended the League to be exactly as seemed: a bit ineffectual, but generally well-meaning and mostly trying to do a good job. I was pleasantly surprised I'd built in enough ambiguity people could see the world from a completely different viewpoint to me and the story still worked.

I was curious:

* How many people read the story
* If you did, which bits of the world you were curious about?
* Where you thought the League fell on a scale from "pure good" to "pure evil" :)

Comments

[ptc24]

It was a good read. I wanted to know about the further adventures of Rick Hardball, and his struggles to maintain a serious tough-guy image whilst being stuck with implausible baseball-themed superpowers. I took them more-or-less at face value - perhaps exaggerating when they said they had "the greatest overall power". I'd be suspicious of the claim that it all comes together when it matters - if there weren't conventions of the genre; if I put my genre-savvy brain theme, a motley bunch of ill-assorted heroes can totally save the day in the end, although at the price of great embarrassment along the way.

[jack]

:) Thank you.