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lizshayne 's review for:
Dreadnought
by April Daniels
I'm really enjoying the current superhero renaissance that interrogates the genre even while buying into it. Daniels writes in that tradition: she's not afraid of thinking about the ways in which the genre pretends that there are stark distinctions between good and evil, recognizing instead that if heroes work with and for governments, they are complicit in the choices made by the government. On the other hand, she turns away from the Nolan Batman nihilism, working instead in this middle area where heroism, goodness, courage, and self are all terms that need to be interrogated.
It's also a heck of a good superhero origin story.
It's also a really important moment of Trans representation in literature. The story both is and is not about Danny's experience of coming out and transitioning; it folds perfectly into the superhero origin story and I love it.
It's also a heck of a good superhero origin story.
It's also a really important moment of Trans representation in literature. The story both is and is not about Danny's experience of coming out and transitioning; it folds perfectly into the superhero origin story and I love it.