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Doctor Impossible, evil genius, diabolical scientist, wannabe world dominator, languishes in a federal detention facility. He's lost his freedom, his girlfriend, and his hidden island fortress.
Over the years, he's tried to take over the world in every way imaginable, using doomsday devices of all varieties (nuclear, thermonuclear, nanotechnological) and mass mind control. He's traveled backwards in time to change history, forward in time to escape it. He's commanded robot armies, insect armies, and dinosaur armies. A fungus army. An army of fish. Of rodents. Aliens. All failures. But not this time. This time it's going to be different.
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- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-30-15
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Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
- By: A. Lee Martinez
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Emperor Mollusk. Intergalactic Menace. Destroyer of Worlds. Conqueror of Other Worlds. Mad Genius. Ex-Warlord of Earth. Not bad for a guy without a spine. But what's a villain to do after he's done... everything. With no new ambitions, he's happy to pitch in and solve the energy crisis or repel aliens invaders should the need arise, but if he had his way, he'd prefer to be left alone to explore the boundaries of dangerous science. Just as a hobby, of course. Retirement isn't easy though.
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Hilariously wacky!
- By Kat Hooper on 04-09-12
By: A. Lee Martinez
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Hench
- A Novel
- By: Natalie Zina Walschots
- Narrated by: Alex McKenna
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn’t glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy? A sharp, witty, modern debut, Hench explores the individual cost of justice through a fascinating mix of millennial office politics, heroism measured through data science, body horror, and a profound misunderstanding of quantum mechanics.
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Narrator was a major deal breaker for me
- By Laura on 11-05-20
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The Supervillainy Saga, Volume One
- By: C. T. Phipps
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
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Gary Karkofsky has always wanted to be a supervillain. Ever since his infamous brother was killed an antihero, he's secretly yearned to gain powers and take over the world. Gary gets his chance when the magical cloak of recently deceased superhero, the Nightwalker, is delivered right to his doorstep. But is he evil enough to be a supervillain? What will his wife think?
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Hidden political overtones
- By Martin on 05-23-21
By: C. T. Phipps
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Ex-Heroes
- By: Peter Clines
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder, Khristine Hvam
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes. Vigilantes. Crusaders for justice, using their superhuman abilites to make Los Angeles a better place. Then the plague of living death spread around the globe. Despite the best efforts of the superheroes, the police, and the military, the hungry corpses rose up and overwhelmed the country. The population was decimated, heroes fell, and the city of angels was left a desolate zombie wasteland like so many others.
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Superheroes vs. Zombies? Sure, why not...
- By Aser Tolentino on 10-04-12
By: Peter Clines
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See These Bones
- The Murder of Crows, Book 1
- By: Chris Tullbane
- Narrated by: Joseph Vernon
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Some superheroes want to save the world. Damian is just hoping to save himself. In the post-Break world of superpowers, necromancy is the one gift nobody wants. Everyone knows what happens to Crows; they go mad and they go bad. Damian has inherited more than just grey eyes and a beak of a nose from his father. He too is a Crow, doomed to become a killer unless he can find a way to avoid the violent madness endemic to his powers. When a Finder offers enrollment at Los Angeles' Academy of Superheroes, he jumps at the chance, believing training could be the key to changing his fate.
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Engaging series, looking forward to more.
- By Amazon Customer on 06-28-21
By: Chris Tullbane
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Dreadnought
- By: April Daniels
- Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Danny Tozer has a problem: She just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny's body into what she's always thought it should be. Now there's no hiding that she's a girl.
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Beating super villains? Easy. Self-acceptance...?
- By randomsai on 10-29-17
By: April Daniels
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Kill Your Heroes
- By: Slade Grayson
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Eddie Marr never planned to be a supervillain, but it seemed like a surefire way to become rich and famous. All he had to do was come up with a flashy costume, a signature gimmick, and commit a couple of high profile (yet nonviolent) crimes. Eddie figured he'd eventually get caught and spend a year or two in a minimum security prison. Then he'd write a tell-all book, do the talk show circuit, and parlay that into a regular TV hosting gig.
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couldn't make it past chapter 4
- By Zaida on 04-29-22
By: Slade Grayson
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Supervillainy and Other Poor Career Choices
- By: J.R. Grey
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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When a down-on-his-luck engineer ends up coming into possession of a rundown suit of power-armor, he sees an opportunity to make some quick cash by selling it off to the nearest supervillain. Unfortunately for him, what should have been a quick and easy sale to pay off his debts quickly grows into an ongoing series of events that serve only to drag him deeper and deeper into the criminal underbelly of the city he calls home.
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Who doesn’t love a techno-hermit with a set of power armor! 🤖
- By C. White on 11-12-19
By: J.R. Grey
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The Shadow Master Series: Books 1-3
- By: M. K. Gibson
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 26 hrs and 45 mins
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This fourth wall-breaking, three-book collection showcases Jackson's adventures through fantasy realms, comic book universes, and classic space opera settings. Each fast-paced novel allows Jackson to flex his powers, skills, and wits as he exploits the rules, points out the respective genre's flaws, and undermines godly authority to win the day. All the while laughing at the expense of our beloved tropes. Because that is what villains should do, shouldn’t they?
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Review this? it didn't deserve my time...
- By slick on 08-01-23
By: M. K. Gibson
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The Never Hero
- The Chronicles of Jonathan Tibbs, Book 1
- By: T. Ellery Hodges
- Narrated by: Steven Barnett
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Reclusive college student Jonathan Tibbs wakes in a pool of blood, not a scratch on him. His life is about to undergo a massive shift. A violent and merciless otherworldly enemy unleashes slaughter in the streets, calling out in a language only he understands. And it is seeking its challenger. In order to defeat the threat, Jonathan must become a temporal weapon...while remaining completely anonymous. Unfortunately, harnessing off-world powers has its own special challenges...
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Crap
- By mix579 on 06-22-17
By: T. Ellery Hodges
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Homicidal Aliens Are Invading and All I Got Is This Stat Menu
- All I Got Is This Stat Menu, Book 1
- By: J.J. Ackerknecht
- Narrated by: Stephanie Savannah
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
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Anya Nowicki, along with thousands of people around the globe, has found herself a host for alien technology known as the Archive. The Archive allows its hosts to alter their minds and bodies in an instant through holographic menu systems. With the touch of a button, anyone can become super strong, gain magical abilities, purchase a giant robot, or become a master in an almost infinite number of skills ranging from advanced combat techniques to fidget-spinning.
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Relatable MC
- By Kindle Customer on 06-23-23
By: J.J. Ackerknecht
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Super Powereds: Year One (2 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]
- Super Powereds, Book 1
- By: Drew Hayes
- Narrated by: full cast, Jonathan Lee Taylor, Darius Johnson, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Original Recording
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Knowledge is power. That would be the motto of Lander University, had it not been snatched up and used to death by others long before the school was founded. For while Lander offers a full range of courses to nearly all students, it also offers a small number of specialty classes to a very select few. Lander is home to the Hero Certification Program, a curriculum designed to develop student with superhuman capabilities, commonly known as Supers, into official Heroes.
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Amazing
- By Lawrence on 04-25-21
By: Drew Hayes
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- Sebastian
- 08-16-12
Entertaining, if not terribly original
Man, half the time i was wondering to myself if the makers of Megamind optioned this novel before they proceeded, because the portion of the book narrated by the supervillain sounds so much like the titular cartoon character, that it's almost as if Will Farrell was parodying the performer of this audiobook. (run-on sentence much?)
The first third of this book was massively engaging to me. It was a uniquely voiced take on the very familiar superhero genre. I equally enjoyed both points of view, both that of the villain, and of the hero, herself a newcomer to a Justice League-type hero team.
However I the book started losing a lot of steam when i realized that the majority of the story was going to be given in flashback. That is a really terrible way to tell a story: to set up present events and then spend 75% of the book having the characters recollect past events. Why? It was just so unnecessary. One example: Near the beginning when the hero gave a quick summary of a past event wherein one of the heroes sacrifices their own life. I thought it was brilliant. Then later on when we got an excruciatingly detailed description of the same event i was rather frustrated. That same problem repeats over and over again. Near the end i kept thinking they must be done with all the backstory exposition, but nope, they just kept going.
So ultimately the book runs out of steam and the ending is fairly unsatisfactory. It's too bad. I really enjoyed the setup. I really didn't mind that so many of the character archetypes were ripped straight from the DC mythos (CoreFire=Superman, Blackwolf=Batman etc) because i like to see authors have fun outside the box with those familiar characters. However this book just can't quite pull everything together in the end. A decent effort, however flawed.
Having said that, if there was a sequel wherein the characters moved FORWARD instead of spouting nonstop exposition, then i would totally pick it up.
***** for Boehmer's performance
***1/2 for Marlo
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- Cliff
- 08-26-13
Supervillans rule.
Would you consider the audio edition of Soon I Will Be Invincible to be better than the print version?
I have not read the print version I will say that the narrators do an excellent job on this book.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Dr. Impossible because it gives you a chance to see inside a evil mastermind and understand why so many of the common comic book tropes take place.
What does Coleen Marlo and Paul Boehmer bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
It gives you a better feel for the characters than you might get reading the book. Mr. Boehmer captures the angst and feelings of insecurity that drives the main character.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Dr. Doom.. The movie..
Any additional comments?
A very different and enjoyable book. I hope to see more.
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- funkyman33
- 09-20-08
A fun book, but aspires to do too much
This book was a lot of fun, original and had a very interesting story. However, I feel it tried to accomplish too much. It seemed to try to establish a new universe in order to develop a sci-fi series, rather than focusing on the story at hand. As a result of far too many peripheral characters and the mistake of jumping back and forth in time to explain these characters' origins, this book was extremely hard to follow (especially in audio book format). It was worth reading, but I wish it was more focused.
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- Kamal
- 07-31-07
Author has a hard time making up his mind
The book has an interesting premise, discussing the world of superheroes and villains from the perspective of the world's greatest super-villain. He's the smartest man in the world, but he's also trite and can't help falling into the super-villain stereotypes. The book seems to waver between an almost serious and a mocking tone as the perspective switches between the two main characters, who are linked. An entertaining listen, but the ending was a little too abrupt.
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- Caesar
- 11-13-08
Fun, engaging
A fun story, different spin on super hero life. Entertaining.
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- Vicky
- 04-23-12
Cliche but Fun Superhero Adventure
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Soon I Will Be Invincible was mildly cliche, but humorous and definitely enjoyable.
The novel focuses on the villain Doctor Impossible and the Champions, a previously disbanded group of superheroes who reconvene with some new members to find out what happened to a member of their team who has disappeared and take down Doctor Impossible.
The team is pretty cliche in terms of superheroes - an invincible woman, a gadget guy, an energetic child hero, a mythic fairy, a cyborg, a half-human half-cat mutant, a magician and an invisible girl. But Grossman does a good job of giving them all personalities with faults included.
Doctor Impossible was a great villain, not the villain that you love to hate, but the villain you can connect with and, to an extent, feel sorry for.
The story jumps back and forth from one narrator to the next as the point of view shifts from Doctor Impossible to Fatale (one of the new Champions recruits). When I first began listening to the audiobook I wasn't completely sold on Marlo's Fatale, but it definitely grew on me. Boehmer's Doctor Impossible was fantastic from the get go - an evil twinge, but with the sad (pathetic?) undertones that mirror his life story.
My only complaint is in the pacing of the story. It took me quite a bit of time to get to the "don't-want-to-put-it-down moment. There was a lot of build-up to the end that could have been evened out a bit more.
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- Christi
- 03-21-08
Maniacal laughter
An amazing audio experience! The readers are having all kinds of fun with this, right down to the maniacal laughter from Doctor Impossible. It's hard to believe this is a debut novel, and I'm glad I took a chance on the recommendation from Audible.com. It's a comic book in prose form, and it works.
Doctor Impossible is getting the lion's share of the raves here, but let's not short-change the superheroes! Fatale is a great balance of nerves and cool, and the behind-the-scenes interactions of the rest of the "New Champions" are priceless. Great fun for fans of classic comic books everywhere.
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- Ian
- 09-01-19
soon I will be Invincible
The quintessential comic book novel. I'll re-read it between other fantasy and sci-fi novels because it's always good.
The 2 viewpoints are from an experienced (even a little jaded) super villain and a rookie hero trying to join the most famous team. Austin Grossman does a perfect job writing both the amazing super powers and the humble human failings.
The narrators selected for this work are spot on for their roles.
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- TG Davis
- 10-23-21
I loved it.
It was a fun read as the story bounced between the villain's and the heros' perspectives. I've read it multiple times and will probably give it more listens in the future.
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- Joe Petruzzelli
- 06-02-21
Decent story. leaves something to be desired.
the story was tropey but still fun. It had an intended lack of finality that makes me want a second book that delves deeper into consequences of the climax on the relationships of these characters. The fact that all the main characters went to high school (and Harvard) together and is mentioned by the "loser villain" quite often but completely ignored by the "cool kid heroes" is the kind of 90's drama writer schlock i found disappointing in a book written in 07.
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