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22 de jun. de 2024 · A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.
23 de jun. de 2024 · Starter Villain stars an out-of-work business journalist in the Chicago suburbs, picking up substitute teaching shifts to make ends meet while wistfully dreaming of buying a neighborhood pub.
Starter Villain gets a lot of mileage out of taking well-known tropes and trying to give it a new fun spin, like instead of paying respect to the dead mob-boss everyone trying to stab the corpse to make sure they're dead.
13 de jun. de 2024 · This is a review of the Hugo-nominated novel Starter Villain by John Scalzi. Or… well, is it? I’m going to talk about why I don’t like the book, it’s true (because I don’t, spoiler warning there for you), but that’s not really the point of it all.
16 de jun. de 2024 · Charlie has an estranged great uncle who dies and leaves Charlie his business – as a super villain. But, there are strings attached – aren’t there always. Uncle Jake had declared war on his fellow super villains and it is up Charlie to finish what Jake started.
28 de jun. de 2024 · Author: John Scalzi. Rating: ☆☆☆☆ (4/5 stars) What if villainy had reached such a scale that it was incorporated? What if villainous operatives extended beyond the human? Follow Charlie as he learns just exactly what his absent billionaire uncle left him in his will.
24 de jun. de 2024 · Starter Villainis basically Despicable Mefor adults. The main character finds out he’s inherited his estranged uncle’s villain business, complete with a spy network of hyperintelligent cats, a volcano lair, and a workforce of foul-mouthed, class-conscious unionized dolphins (they were my favorite).
