Just a marvelous find. The book itself is action-packed and worth-reading! My only complaint is that it eventually had to end.

The book is brutally funny, sad, touching and bizarre. A thoroughly resplendent display of literary skill.

The book builds a complex world full of odd super-history. Though actually it's simpler than some of the big comic book story arcs.

The book lies to us about its premise. One page might read like a satiric pastiche of bad 1950's comic books; the next page threatens to dissolve in its own irony. This regurgitation of a 1960s stock plot is almost an insult to alan moore's decades of...  Read More

Soon i will be invincible is occasionally humorous, but merely taking the perspective of a bad guy is no longer an innovation. The villain was supposed to be intelligent beyond any scale measurable by mankind but was making the dumbest * decisions all...  Read More

Even so, the proceedings here are singularly lugubrious. They very nearly do it to themselves. Everything is just wrong.

Mystic has some nice moments, but that doesn't make up for it all ultimately coming to nothing. The prose is bland and the flow of the story is rocky. The narrative loves to go into plot dumps and exposition.

There is a lot of repetition. The author repeats ideas two or three times, mostly in sequential paragraphs. A writer needs to be able to establish and maintain two distinct narrative voices to bring this trick off.