{"product_id":"9780987703903","title":"Shrinking the Heroes","description":"WINNER: Carl Brandon Society Kindred Award (2007)SPECIAL CITATION (Runner-Up): Philip K. Dick Award (2007)Meet the F*O*O*J, the World's Greatest Heroes: OMNIPOTENT MAN: A body with the density of steel, and a brain to matchTHE FLYING SQUIRREL: Aging playboy industrialist by day, avenging krypto-fascist by nightIRON LASS: Mythology's greatest warrior, but the world might be safer if she had a husbandX-MAN: Formerly of the League of Angry Blackmen, but not formerly enoughTHE BROTHERFLY: Radioactively flyPOWER GRRRL: Perpetually deciding between fighting crime or promoting her latest album, clothing line or sex scandalThey'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 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.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 workplace super-powered civil war.Only one woman can save them from themselves: Dr. Janice Brain-Silverman, AKA Doctor Brain, the world's leading therapist for the extraordinarily-abled.But 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? Advance Praise for \"UNMASKED! When Being a Superhero Can't Save You From Yourself\" by Doctor Brain \"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.\"--The Übermensch Reader\"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.\"--Clifford David Stinson, AKA the Blue Smasher\"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.\"--Menton the DestroyerAbout the authorDr. 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: Seven Habits of Highly Defective NemesesWhy Do Bad Villains \"Happen\" to Good Heroes?Evil Geniuses Who Hate Humanity and the Women Who Love ThemSacred Identity: Reclaiming the Demi-God in YouSecrets from Menton's Brain: Using Two Lefts to Make Yourself RightBeing Super-Mom in Today's MultiverseSide-Kicked! When the Alpha-Hero Treats You Like OmegaBulletproof, SchmulletproofSecret Origins, Starring: Your Miserable Life","brand":"Narmer's Palette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48507072839921,"sku":"9780987703903","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780987703903_p0.jpg?v=1786075897","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780987703903","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}