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Flyover City!
An ongoing blogfic, with new posts thrice weekly.
Denver, Colorado is known for many things: it’s a growing, thriving mid-sized city with a vital arts community and music scene. There are some pretty good restaurants if you know where to look, and the rents are (relatively) cheap.
What Denver doesn’t have is the world (and sometimes galaxy) at-stake, super-hero daring-do that happens in the bigger cities along the East and West Coasts.
Flyover City! is the weblog of Joel Wyatt, a regular guy just trying to get by in a super-powered world.
Flyover City!
— contains some harsh language —
Tags: blogfic comedy science fantasy superhero
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The Madden Of Superheroics
This story is told in blog format, and, true-to-blog format, the author tends to regularly go off on tangents. Sometimes these tangents begin in the middle of a sentence, which is where things get problematic. I found myself wondering what the point was of several different sub-sections of the story, which isn’t good for reader continuity.
Another problem with this story is the liberal use of the ever-controversial hyperlinks through-out the blog. I found myself feeling as though I had to click on the hyperlinks to understand the references (or else why would the author put them in there), but once I did, I got so distracted by the other sites that it threw me right out of the story.
The over-all concept of the story is an interesting one — instead of telling the average superhero story, the author attempts to tell the story of an average-Joe living in a super-powered world. The problem with this, of course, is keeping things interesting. So far, my favorite parts of the story where were the narrator is recounting a recent super-powered, televised fight. As such, it works wonderfully — sort of like a football commentator whose words are sometimes more interesting than the game itself. But the rest of the story has me wondering what the point is, and when things’ll get interesting.
The humor in the piece had me laughing out loud occasionally, and, in it’s best moments, I was hooked. Unfortunately, neither of those things last long.
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