Contents

INTRODUCTION: FINDING YOUR BAT SIGNAL

CHAPTER 1     Identity: Who Would You Like to Be Today?

CHAPTER 2     Missions: Should You Choose to Accept Them

CHAPTER 3     Fundamentals: Rights, Responsibilities, Choice, and Control in a Superhero World

CHAPTER 4     Head Versus Heart: Making Emotions Your Bitch

CHAPTER 5     Plucked from the Shadowy Superhero Research Lab: Super You’s Toolbag

CHAPTER 6     Superpowers: Can You Leap Tall Buildings in a Single Bound?

CHAPTER 7     Weaknesses: Embracing Them, Working with Them, Protecting Them

CHAPTER 8     Cheap Armor and Weapons: What Outmoded “Protection” Are You Hiding Behind?

CHAPTER 9     From the Annals of Time: Constructing Your Origin Story

CHAPTER 10   A Super You Among Regular Others: Being Out in the Universe

A SCENE FROM MY BLOCKBUSTER SUPERHERO MOVIE

CONCLUSION: WHERE DO WE GO from HERE?