This is one of those three by average books - most of it was a 4, but it had a few things that bothered me a lot about it and so it averages out to a three. I thought the conceit was brilliant, I thought the main character was...like old cheese where you can't tell if there's something off about it or if its supposed to smell that way and it's just not to your taste, I thought the supporting cast was awesome, and I hate the [spoiler]trope of disfigured villain who is evil because no one loves them. Seriously, can we just not?[/spoiler].
Jama-Everett has written a very interesting response to the superhero genre--see Abigail Nussbaum on this series--and I like much of what he is doing. It's just frustrating to see him successfully interrogate certain aspects of the genre while still perpetuating some of the problems inherent in the original.