This super-hero short story anthology of heroes and villains is a collection of tales set in the universe of the Silver Age Sentinels role-playing game. This collection explores the game's central... This description may be from another edition of this product.
As a fan of the superhero story, I thought this collection of short stories on that subject was about as good as they come! I'm told the stories are all based on a role playing game, but even though I'm not familiar with the game at all, I enjoyed the stories tremendously. I thought it was reminiscent of the Astro City comics - a deeper-than-dime-novel examination of superheros, supervillains and why they are such enduring archetypes of fiction. The writing and storytelling is just plain good old-fashioned fanboy entertainment. I'm hoping there's a volume II!
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