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Who Psychoanalyses the Watchmen?

From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain

By Minister Faust  

1 Mar, 2016

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Minister Faust has one of the cooler names in science fiction and I will admit that alone was enough to get me to give his 2007 standalone novel From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain a try. The novel examines a question that arises all too infrequently in superhero universes: having finally taken the initiative, defeated their super-villainous enemies, and consigned their former foes to eternal prison, what the superheroes do next?

Therapy!


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