Superhero book rec!

I love superheroes.   Just, so much.  Even with everything that's done badly in the genre, I love them, they make me happy, and when they're done right--

--well, nothing makes a crappy day better than new superheroes.  But I've been broken up with DC since the reboot (I am NEVER getting over what they did to Oracle), and the new Batman movie was awful, and let's not even TALK about original superhero novels.  They're always bad.  Mediocre and uninspired and lacking in scope at best.

. . . except.

The first exception I ever found to this (IMO!) was the book Black and White, which was a really interesting take and even better, had two women superheroes as the main characters!  Loved it.  And today I just picked up the second exception, called Sidekicks, by Jack Ferraiolo.

Sidekicks is the story of a kid who's starting to outgrow his 60s-Robinesque childhood and his 60s-Batmanesque mentor, but his world is an entirely different place than he thought it was--and it's about to come crashing down around him.  Good thing he's got some help, right?  Just one problem: She's his arch-nemisis.

( All the squee. All of it. )

Sidekicks, by Jack Ferraiolo.  Check it out.