A review by storytimed
A Hundred Thousand Worlds by Bob Proehl
3.0
In this book, a former TV sci-fi actress and a bunch of comic book writers make a marvelous journey across the con scene from NYC to LA!
The mundane elements were fairly prosaic (the comic book writers include Fake Alan Moore and Lesbian Fake Gail Simone), and I really didn't find the ending to the custody battle at all believable. Alex also does not come off as a realistic kid (more of an adult's idea of what a shy, sensitive child Should be like) and is altogether too self-possessed
What I did like were the occasional interstitial backstories for Proehl's fake comic book heroes, most of whom are thinly-veiled expies of actual Marvel and DC characters. He's clearly done a lot of thinking about comics and portrays the emotionally resonant elements of being a stranger in a land where no one knows you or being a man out of time very well!
And I like the Greek chorus of cosplay girls
I would read Bob Proehl's fanfiction.............
The mundane elements were fairly prosaic (the comic book writers include Fake Alan Moore and Lesbian Fake Gail Simone), and I really didn't find the ending to the custody battle at all believable. Alex also does not come off as a realistic kid (more of an adult's idea of what a shy, sensitive child Should be like) and is altogether too self-possessed
What I did like were the occasional interstitial backstories for Proehl's fake comic book heroes, most of whom are thinly-veiled expies of actual Marvel and DC characters. He's clearly done a lot of thinking about comics and portrays the emotionally resonant elements of being a stranger in a land where no one knows you or being a man out of time very well!
And I like the Greek chorus of cosplay girls
I would read Bob Proehl's fanfiction.............