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Captain Freedom A Superheros Quest for Truth Justice & the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves

by Robillard, G. Xavier

ISBN13: 9780061650680
ISBN10: 0061650684

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Freedom's fifteen minutes are over!

Software pirates! Mostly extinct dinosaurs! Giant barbarians! Crooning criminals! Captain Freedom's beat them all, saved the world, and looked fantastic doing it but he couldn't fend off middle management.

The Superhero lifestyle is all that Captain Freedom has ever known. What's he supposed to do now? Enter politics? Write a children's book?

Freedom's in a bad way and he's only a stint in rehab away from a lifetime of celebrity reality shows. But with the guidance of his new life coach, maybe Freedom can stumble in a new direction even if it means having to make peace with his parents... or finally commit to a single long-term archenemy.

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"Captain Freedom is a truly funny and energetic romp of a social satire, a terrific send up of not only of super heroes, but the cult of personality in general. And G. Xavier Robillard isn't stingy with the ideas, which indicates there's good things to come. I can't wait." Christopher Moore, Author of Lamb and Practical Demonkeeping

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"We've seen alcoholic superheroes, closeted gay superheroes, even homicidal superheroes. But we've never seen the superhero as neurotic hipster fame whore. Robillard's hilarious satire goes somewhere new and surprising." Neal Pollack, author of Alternadad

Synopsis

Freedom's fifteen minutes are over

Software pirates Mostly extinct dinosaurs Giant barbarians Crooning criminals Captain Freedom's beat them all, saved the world, and looked fantastic doing it but he couldn't fend off middle management.

The Superhero lifestyle is all that Captain Freedom has ever known. What's he supposed to do now? Enter politics? Write a children's book?

Freedom's in a bad way and he's only a stint in rehab away from a lifetime of celebrity reality shows. But with the guidance of his new life coach, maybe Freedom can stumble in a new direction even if it means having to make peace with his parents . . . or finally commit to a single long-term archenemy."

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G. Xavier Robillard writes for several humor sites, including McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Comedy Central. He lives in Boston. Captain Freedom is his first novel.

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`	Alterity , January 01, 2010 (view all comments by Alterity) Farcical and sometimes nearly too true to be funny. The satire may hit a little too close to home for many Californians. It has a different feel from Robillard's online writing, but he doesn't seem to have had any trouble moving into the novel format.
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`	stina8753 , May 05, 2009 Captain Freedom is easily one of the sharpest, wittiest books I've read in a long time. It combines enough goofy humor with really cutting observations to make a brilliant critique on the ideas of celebrities, heroes, and public image. This is definitely a fantastic, fun read, and I've been recommending it to everyone I know, including my college professors. Very well done.
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`	Terrence , March 22, 2009 The initial reviews I read about this book looked very promising and I actually liked the concept. The writing style was disjointed and not well thought through. I purchased "Soon I Will Be Invincible" at the same time and that's turning out to be a much better book.
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Product Details

ISBN:: 9780061650680
Binding:: Trade Paperback
Publication date:: 02/03/2009
Publisher:: HarperCollins Publishers
Pages:: 272
Height:: .69IN
Width:: 5.34IN
Thickness:: 3 in.
Number of Units:: 1
UPC Code:: 2800061650682
Author:: G Xavier Robillard
Author:: G. Xavier Robillard
Subject:: Satire
Subject:: Literature-A to Z
Subject:: General Fiction

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`	christopher.horne , February 17, 2009 (view all comments by christopher.horne) G.X. Robillard has created a fast-paced; funny comic book into a novel full of bits of biting social satire. Through the medium of his character, a shallow, ambitious, two-dimensional super-hero who flies off the comic pages and onto the public stage, he provides a frame for his rapid-fire send-up of popular culture, the cult of celebrity life, politics, the arts, and the general steady decline of the West. Even though this could become annoyingl; there are so many trenchant gags,puns and little humourous pieces that the reader is ultimately charmed. In time, our hero even has room to learn to relate to a significant other -- a nemesis. Bravo.
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`	Mark Mayall , February 11, 2009 (view all comments by Mark Mayall) With all due respect to Neal, we have seen the superhero as neurotic hipster fame whore, in the Marvel comic series X-Force (subsequently re-titled X-Statix) by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred. It's fertile territory though, so another writer's treatment of the subject is more than welcome. I look forward to reading Robillard's take.
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