"With great power there must also come great psychoanalysis" (27). This is a hilarious look at the possible dysfunctions of the F.O.O.J. - the Fantastic Order of Justice (patterned loosely after the Justice League of America).
Sure, superheroes save others - but can they save themselves? Do they pay a price for their just and noble actions? Do their actions arise even from pure motives? What would happen if they were all subject to pyschoanalysis?
Faust's writing style is absolutely a blast. For any comic book fan, the story is littered with inside jokes. Some of the best fun comes from the Batman-like "The Flying Squirrel" who mistrusts everyone and makes his displeasure known with his constant stream of cut-downs. Of Omnipotent Man (the Superman-clone), he says, "He's a fraud, Miss brain. Earth's greatest superhero, my colon. He's a panty-willed, 'aw-shucks, ma'am,' unmitigated ultraninny" (195). When someone touches his cape, the Flying Squirrel responds, "This is my cape, for God's sake! You don't touch a hero's cape! My life depends on this thing operating properly" (197).
Though it ends rather abruptedly, it is well worth the ride. This was as fun as Soon I Will Be Invincible.
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