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From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
Minister Faust

Issue #0

From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain

Del Rey Books (Jan 30, 2007)
9780345466372
| Paperback
416 pages | 127 x 203 mm | English
Dewey 813.6
LC Classification PR9199.4.M57 .F76 2007
LC Control No. 2006050976

Genre

  • Fantasy Fiction
  • Humorous Fiction

Subject

  • Comic Strip Characters
  • Comic Strip Characters/ Fiction
  • Fantasy Fiction
  • Heroes
  • Humorous Fiction

Plot

An outlandish, outrageous tour de force by the most innovative prose stylist in the field.-Robert J. Sawyer, author of Hominids They're Earth's mightiest superteam-and dysfunctional as hell. OMNIPOTENT MAN-a body with the density of steel, and a brain to match THE FLYING SQUIRREL-aging playboy industrialist by day, avenging krypto-fascist by night IRON LASS-mythology's greatest warrior-but the world might be safer if she had a husband X-MAN-formerly of the League of Angry Blackmen . . . but not formerly enough THE BROTHERFLY-radioactively fly POWER GRRRL-perpetually deciding between fighting crime or promoting her latest album, clothing line, or sex scandal Having finally defeated all archenemies, the members of the Fantastic Order of Justice are reduced to engaging in toxic office politics that could very well lead to a superpowered civil war. Only one woman can save them from themselves: Dr. Eva Brain-Silverman, aka Dr. Brain, the world's leading therapist for the extraordinarily abled. Faust has pretty much invented his own genre. He's totally original, full of surprises.-Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon Samuel Delany, Harlan Ellison, and Ishmael Reed all rolled into one. Faust's writing is biting, insightful, and hugely entertaining.-Ernest Dickerson, director