All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault

The title of the book does a great job of setting a tone for the story, which is a fun mix of superheroics and fantasy storytelling with vampires, werewolves, and other monsters. Gardner clearly has a love of superhero storytelling, and this lighthearted story pokes gentle fun at a lot of the common tropes while still telling an engaging and fun story.

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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...paranoia is our friend. Paranoia is our sunscreen, our condom, our duct tape. Paranoia tells the truth nine times out of ten, and the tenth time is when you weren't paranoid enough. We will never correctly anticipate what flavor of shit will hit the fan, but we can calculate the trajectory and attempt to avoid the splatter.

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