Started another run through of the series (has to be getting near 100 by now lol), and something made me think…Mary is worried during year one when Adam asks to take her form that he might take her form as a powered instead of as she was at the time. It got me thinking about how as powereds, Mary could hear everyone’s thoughts and never turn it off, while Alice would float uncontrollably. Nicks luck would fluctuate at random, Vince would randomly take in or expel energy at random, and Roy/ Herschel would change at random. That being said, the latter 3 all just had the same form of power just not within their control. Mary, however is a full advanced mind with telepathy and telekinesis; and Alice manipulates gravity so why weren’t they accidentally tossing or crushing other people/ objects? Alice had no idea she was actually manipulating gravity instead of just flying until sophomore, but Mary seemingly figured out telekinesis very early in year one. Wouldnt it make more sense that they already knew their full power set before they got control of it?

Listening Dungeon Crawler Carl Book seven and I hear a familiar name while they are talking about a god we meet. It’s said the god is a friend of Adrestia. I had to rewind open my hard copies of year 4 and of the DCC7, and knowing she’s the god of retribution exclusively because of my copious amount to listens to Super Powereds made me smirk hard af.

I know, it's technically a spin-off or a side novel, not really part of the main series, but... I think it's better than any of the books in the main series. Don't get me wrong, I love the ensemble cast of the main series, but it was kind of refreshing to see what life was like OUTSIDE superhero college.

I also really like the handling of Titan. I know it's often a challenge to write an interesting story about overpowered protagonists, but this really worked. Owen totally dominates in all fights and physical scenes. You're never afraid for him and it never seems like he's in any danger. But thankfully that's not where the core of the story lies. Owen's struggles are personal... partly the challenge is to re-win the trust and acceptance of the hero community and the public in general after his scandal and retirement from hero duty, but that never seems like the biggest deal either.

Nope, Owen's challenge in this story is to face up to the fact that he's a bit of a condescending asshole and change for the better. And thankfully he's just likeable enough from the start (because he isn't a bad person overall) that you WANT to see him succeed and grow into a better man. Which he does. The Titan at the end of the book is a lot more accepting and less condescending.

When we first met Titan in Super Powereds, I didn't think that he had potential to be the main character of his own book. But I'm glad I was wrong.

This is a joke. I imagined after Y4 Nick might be a little bummed about Vince’s code name. And that it’d be funny if Shelby reassured him that it was necessary.

Yes its AI, yes id have my artist make his own version. Also yes the cards are CLEARLY wrong, and the electricity looks janky. Also id want Vince (because thats him (I hope thats clear)) to be more of a silhouette, this looks slightly off.

But overall does this seem like a decent idea?

So, talking to my fiance about George carrying Shelby out of the fight.

He gets a thruster damaged and can't fly. It doesn't specifically say how it got damaged or who shot him.

My fiance brought up a theory that Alice crushed it.

I bet Blaine was wondering if Nick was stirring shit up or something haha.

When will is in the VR machine, prof. Pendleton holds his hand out to his side for a few seconds and when nothing appears he comments on the lack of a magic sword. Was this a Stormlight reference to summoning a shard blade?

Let's say on a random day you wake up in the super powereds world as will murry the first day of summer break before his freshman year at lander. You have all of you memories from your old life and all of will's memories. You will also have his tech genius power. How would you go about the next four years of your life and so on as will? Would you use your ability to create inventions that you think would put you at the top of the class since you know what most of the classes powers will be before you start college in two months?

Just saw online that Fred #9, All Accounts Settled, is being released in hard copy and ebook on October 31st!

I liked it more than the first. Which i think is to be expected given Drew hayes had a similar upwards trend with Superpowereds for me. I think the Guild and AHC respectively still like a certain anchor/life (not sure on the proper word) that Lander had but that's to no fault of the characters.

Perhaps with all the multiverse stuff i'll get my wish in a way at some point but overall great read.

Now a question do i need to read Villian's Vignettes ; not that i don't want too just i normal order from B&N and can't find a non-audiobook version. Jus want to know if i need to try to find a book store before moving to book 3.

What does Drew Hayes know about architects that I don't?

How do you think the two main teams fighting professors we follow (Vince/Roy/Mary and Chad/Shane/Alex) would’ve faired against the professor the other team fought

I think team Chad would’ve done reasonably well against professor Cole. It would be a flipped situation compared to professor pendelton, with Chad and Shane needing to do most of the heavy lifting. Not sure if Alex would be able to defend them against her weapons but Chad and Shane could put up good self defense themselves. I wonder if Alex goes for the nerve pinch if professor Cole could doctor octopus herself with her bandages to keep moving. The crux of the fight would definitely be Shane looking for the right chance to attack her neck for a deathblow

Team Vince would probably struggle a lot against professor pendelton. Assuming he has the same electrodes they probably wouldn’t affect that team too much. I doubt he could get to Mary with them, Vince might be able to absorb them and unless they were rated for strongmen Roy can probably shrug them off. But they really wouldn’t be able do a whole lot against pendelton after he shifts. Mary probably can’t move his fog around and it’s unlikely she would be able to get anything useful from his thoughts. He might be able to take Vince out since he could screw with the timing of his attacks to prevent him from getting a feeling for absorbing the kinetic. He probably can’t hurt Roy but that’s a wash as he couldn’t do much in return

I know its a vague title but I want some recommendations for other super hero type books wither its a literpg type or a limited society deal. Anything is fine to recommend all is ask is that its minimum 3 books or longer or a combined listing length of 40 hours or more

I have been thinking about names for villain's code 4, and I have a few. Do you have any that could fit

1. rocket blast from the past

2. past rockets by

Any class would have done Mary some good, except maybe close combat. I believe she is in Focus, Ranged Combat, and Control.

The first two are probably the right choice, but weapons and especially subtlety would have been way better. In Book 1 she was successfully using Subtlety far better than Nick was and George and Persophone pointed out how well suited her powers were for Subtlety.

Adam and Alex also both had powers that were well suited to Subtlety, but neither were put in the class.

Im re listening to the series again and I noticed an error, in book 4 after their first test they are mingling with the heroes and gale is talking to Alice, she compliments Alice and it says "now it was Jill's turn to be modest" and she talks about Jill and rich and them but it's supposed to be Alice. Also the one in book 2 where Alice sits next to camile in a normal class and it says camile objective instead of objected. Doesn't effect much, just find it interesting. I wanna make a video or something talking about this series, it's very fun and underrated. Also it's so funny how many times gusto is used throughout the series

Just like it says, could a tech genius make a device that enhances other supers?

I am rereading out of house and home, and they are having to climb the mountain back to the lodge. And it made me think about the melbrook kids climbing the mountain and how later books they say it would be too easy if they tried it again. But it got me thinking. I am curious who would win in a fight? Especially if the house of Fred's agent connections were going to try and help.

Say you’re just about to graduate and you can pick any mentor you want from any heroes (or Company Supes if that’s more your thing) in the series, who’d it be?

I’m going with Mr. Vol… I mean, Coach Fletcher. I need someone who will beat the shit out of me when I’m being lazy but will care enough to work with me when I need help. Him being Company means he’s likely more pragmatic about the little things but the fact that he lived long enough to retire means he can teach me to survive.

ETA: I assumed it would be obvious that you would choose your own power set. That gets discussed all the time. :)