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The Self-Help Book for Super-Heroes FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DOCTOR BRAIN is a superhero satire savagely skewering self-help books, pop-psychology, corporate media, the cult of celebrity, “reality TV,” and the mad-dogs in power who style themselves the heroes of our age while destroying the very freedom they claim to champion. FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DOCTOR BRAIN may not help you solve your problems... but it may bring you closer to knowing who’s causing them. Meet the F*O*O*J, the World's Greatest Heroes 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 THE BROTHERFLY Radioactively fly POWER GRRRL Perpetually deciding between fighting crime or promoting her latest album, clothing line or sex scandal They're Earth's mightiest super-team. And dysfunctional as hell. Having survived arch-criminal assaults in the 1950s, intergalactic aggression in the 1960s, affirmative action battles in the 1970s, and finally defeating all its arch-enemies in a battle global in the 1980s, the Fantastic Order Of Justice finds itself in a peaceful world without super villains--and thus bereft of a mandate. Without 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 mutually assured destruction. Only one woman can save them from themselves: Dr. Eva Brain-Silverman, AKA Doctor Brain, the world's leading therapist for the extraordinarily-abled. Leading these squabblers in therapy through rôle-playing mission-simulators such as a battle against the giant Cyclo-Tron is easy compared to dealing with the fall-out of the death of the F*O*O*J's founder, especially when both the Flying Squirrel and the X-Man suspect foul play, despite any lack of real evidence. Can anyone be safe when the F*O*O*J's two most paranoid members--who go together as well as Rush Limbaugh and Spike Lee--team up to investigate what's left of the supervillain world... and eventually fellow F*O*O*J members themselves? Led to Asteroid Zed, the orbiting prison-sanitarium of the damned, the investigator stumble upon cryptic facts which lead them to a horrifying reality: that one of the deadliest villains in history has murdered the god of heroes and is plotting the murder of them all. But who? Menton the Destroyer? Sarah Bellum? Or another possibility too dreadful to contemplate? In the ensuing panic, no one is safe when F*O*O*Jsters face a combinations of set-ups, assassination attempts and suicide bombings. No matter how many careers and lives are destroyed, the Flying Squirrel and the X-Man, the world's two finest investigators, will not give up their fight for the truth. Not even when its inevitable conclusion is a super-powered civil war. Back to From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain Back to Main |