{"product_id":"9780987703903","title":"Shrinking the Heroes","description":"WINNER: Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award (2007)\u003cbr\u003eSPECIAL CITATION (Runner-Up): Philip K. Dick Award (2007)\u003cp\u003eMeet the F*O*O*J, the World's Greatest Heroes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOMNIPOTENT MAN: A body with the density of steel, and a brain to match\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE FLYING SQUIRREL: Aging playboy industrialist by day, avenging krypto-fascist by night\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIRON LASS: Mythology's greatest warrior, but the world might be safer if she had a husband\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eX-MAN: Formerly of the League of Angry Blackmen, but not formerly enough\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE BROTHERFLY: Radioactively fly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePOWER GRRRL: Perpetually deciding between fighting crime or promoting her latest album, clothing line or sex scandal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey're Earth's mightiest super-team. And dysfunctional as hell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving survived arch-criminal assaults in the 1950s, intergalactic aggression in the 1960s, affirmative action battles in the 1970s, and having finally defeated all its arch-enemies in a battle global in the 1980s, the F*O*O*J finds itself in a peaceful world without super villains--and thus bereft of a mandate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout external foes, the phenomenal F*O*O*Jsters are reduced to waging toxic office politics rife with their own arcane idiosyncrasies, bizarre perversions, mutual contempt and explosive neuroses, leading to what must sooner or later be a workplace super-powered civil war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly one woman can save them from themselves: Dr. Janice Brain-Silverman, AKA Doctor Brain, the world's leading therapist for the extraordinarily-abled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when the planet's most hallowed hero dies unexpectedly, career-ending depression descends, accusations fly and conspiracy theories boil--is the age of heroes truly over, or has an old foe returned to exact revenge on them all? Can the F*O*O*J survive its two greatest threats: assassination and group therapy?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdvance Praise for \"UNMASKED! When Being a Superhero Can't Save You From Yourself\" by Doctor Brain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brilliant, easy-to-implement life-changing guidance and classic examples from the careers of our greatest legends, written by the leading therapist of the extraordinarily-abled.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Übermensch Reader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If I'd had this book twenty years ago I could've saved myself decades of rage, violence and self-loathing, not to mention a $4 billion judgement against me by the city.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Clifford David Stinson, AKA the Blue Smasher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Were I still at my psychiatric practice and had I not begun my career of mental butchery that led to my incarceration, I would unreservedly recommend this fine volume to all my living patients.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Menton the Destroyer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Janice Brain-Silverman lives and works at the Hyper-Potentiality Clinic inside the refurbished Mount Palomax Observatory in Los Ditkos. She has been helping hyper-hominids for over twenty years, and is the author of such best-sellers as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven Habits of Highly Defective Nemeses\u003cbr\u003eWhy Do Bad Villains \"Happen\" to Good Heroes?\u003cbr\u003eEvil Geniuses Who Hate Humanity and the Women Who Love Them\u003cbr\u003eSacred Identity: Reclaiming the Demi-God in You\u003cbr\u003eSecrets from Menton's Brain: Using Two Lefts to Make Yourself Right\u003cbr\u003eBeing Super-Mom in Today's Multiverse\u003cbr\u003eSide-Kicked! When the Alpha-Hero Treats You Like Omega\u003cbr\u003eBulletproof, Schmulletproof\u003cbr\u003eSecret Origins, Starring: Your Miserable Life\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Narmer's Palette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49836384092400,"sku":"9780987703903","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780987703903","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}