Epitomizing an appreciation for superhero culture, this novel launches the reader into a wacky adventure amid a casual narrative voice, and approachable, easy to follow prose. 

I recommend you sink into the first person perspective and let the cinematic quality of the novel spirit you away. The pop culture references come fast and hard, as you navigate the fantastical and realistic elements of the plot, which are both well integrated into the main character’s consciousness.

The author even plants easter eggs for more advanced nerds to uncover. In its thoroughly modern setting, the protagonist embarks on a nostalgia-suffused adventure through urban woes. A phrenetic pace is sustained, rife with splendid homages. Furthermore, it ponders how to recapture the joy and excitement of childhood when real life wears you away, which is something most adults can relate to.

It’s action-packed pages will keep you invested and remind you why so many of us hold our dreams sacred – unruly as they may be. This book reforms the classical tropes to be found throughout many recognizable precursors and transforms them into a fresh take on the superhero genre.

For worshippers of escapism, what more can you ask? It has a similar mystique or feel as Ready Player One, but does not suffer from over-explanation like that blockbuster. See if you can hold on, while the staggering number of intersecting concepts culled from the annals of popular franchises slide in and out of the narrative.

At bottom finding the hero inside of everyone involves a journey and a fundamental understanding of the limitless possibilities offered by those shining examples we have immortalized. And those pesky Zom-borgs keep popping up. While it maintains some video game aesthetics, as our hero musters the courage to face an unusual destiny, the whole works as a flowing visual story, studded with some familiar faces.

It is a creative, engrossing, and thoroughly enjoyable story, communicating the fidelity of adolescent absorption, as well as the authenticity of a connoisseur’s commentary on the vast universes enmeshing our public consumerist psyches.

It leaves one a little bit wiser about how to understand the self through the interpretation and filtering of the immense troves of mainstream art and media to which our civilization is heir.