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Superior by Jessica Lack
4.0

It's not that I'm not a superhero person, it's just that I'm much more a riff on superhero person. I love the stories that talk about the perpetually kidnapped sidekicks and the experience of living in a world with supers and the absurdity of it all. Not simply the fourth wall breaking style of deadpool, but the narratives that take such a world seriously and actually look at what it's like.
And Superior does that beautifully. It's not a subversive story—it hits all the right narrative beats and doesn't break the rules of the genre—but it adds depth, nuance, and sweetness to the origin story. Not the origins of the superhero, just the story of how people are good.