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Powerless: Some Kind of Hero
In a world where using powers in public can have you thrown in prison, one woman is trying to make a difference. Having spent her whole life hiding her abilities, Hayley Turner is a police officer by day, a vigilante Hero by night. Working together with an old 90s Hero, she has finally met someone who can understand her frustrations. But as she discovers, being able to trust someone after all those years alone is harder than it looks. Set in the same world as the superhero novels POWERLESS and KILLING GODS (also available on Amazon), comes this story of a new Hero trying to find her place in the world as she works with her mentor to take down an organised crime gang.
27 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 21, 2016
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About the author
Tony Cooper
26 books22 followersTony Cooper was born and raised in Scotland. He followed the traditional route of becoming a writer/artist by studying Medicine then making videogames for 16 years.
His grimdark urban fantasy superhero series is currently at three books, POWERLESS, KILLING GODS and DIE FAMOUS, and a tie-in comic book SOME KIND OF HERO.
He also created the graphic novel THE MURDER CLUB: USELESS DEATHS, a psychological thriller about a pair of schoolkids who plot to kill a fellow student.
He has also release a collection of dark short stories titled "The Resurrection Tree and Other Stories", and the science fiction comedy novella "Higgs & Soap: Galaxy Delivery".
His grimdark urban fantasy superhero series is currently at three books, POWERLESS, KILLING GODS and DIE FAMOUS, and a tie-in comic book SOME KIND OF HERO.
He also created the graphic novel THE MURDER CLUB: USELESS DEATHS, a psychological thriller about a pair of schoolkids who plot to kill a fellow student.
He has also release a collection of dark short stories titled "The Resurrection Tree and Other Stories", and the science fiction comedy novella "Higgs & Soap: Galaxy Delivery".
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November 7, 2022
I don’t read a ton of comics anymore, so my views come from a fairly narrow perspective, but I thoroughly enjoyed this short origin story (kind of?) for one of the characters in the author’s novels. Hayley Turner is a cop/super; Hayley Turner fights crime in an alternate present day London.
The things I liked most about this was how crisp and efficient the storytelling is. The comic runs to maybe 24 pages, and yet there is a clearly developed story; beginning, middle and end, plus word-building notes that give real depth to the setting. Most of all, almost every panel serves to develop character, and by the end I had a real feeling for the MC, and gladly would read the novels, confident of their quality.
If you need a shorthand comp, I’m thinking Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London mashed up with The Boys. There is a gritty tone to this that I really enjoyed.
The things I liked most about this was how crisp and efficient the storytelling is. The comic runs to maybe 24 pages, and yet there is a clearly developed story; beginning, middle and end, plus word-building notes that give real depth to the setting. Most of all, almost every panel serves to develop character, and by the end I had a real feeling for the MC, and gladly would read the novels, confident of their quality.
If you need a shorthand comp, I’m thinking Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London mashed up with The Boys. There is a gritty tone to this that I really enjoyed.
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