'Soon I Will Be Invincible' by Austin Grossman - BOOK REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com

'Soon I Will Be Invincible' by Austin Grossman - BOOK REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com: "Maybe it's Adam Brody's fault. Or Tobey Maguire's. Or Christian Bale's or Alan Moore's or Michael Chabon's or Jonathan Lethem's. Whomever you want to hold responsible, comic books, once the province of extended adolescence, have become undeniably hip %u2014 OK, less geeky than they used to be.

Now video-game-design consultant Austin Grossman has joined the club. Unlike literary creations featuring comics history or essays flavored with mentions of familiar childhood favorites, his first novel, 'Soon I Will Be Invincible,' is a full-on spoof that conjures a pantheon of cyborgs, aliens, fairies, magicians and zeta-beam-obsessed scientists."