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. Volume XXI Number 16. . . .December 19, 2014
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Superfab is the most stylish super hero around. In fact, the best part about Superfab’s rabbit hole is his SUPER walk-in closet. Superfab considers his crime-fighting outfits very carefully. The only problem is that he takes so long to get ready that by the time he arrives on the scene of the crime, another super hero has always already saved the day! The calls to Superfab’s red phone for his services come less and less frequently until his phone no longer rings at all, much to his disappointment. To his surprise though, one day the phone does ring again, and, although Superfab expects the call to be a mistake, it turns out there is a monster that only he can fight. Superfab finds some common ground with the monster and saves the day by convincing the monster to leave the planet. Everyone vies to congratulate Superfab on being the only super hero able to defeat the terrible Destroyer.
Recommended. Carla Epp is a hospital librarian with the University of Manitoba.
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Superfab Saves the Day is an original and interesting take on a traditional super hero story. It feels similar to a fractured fairy tale for the super hero genre. Superfab is a quirky, likeable character who knows what he likes and isn’t willing to compromise on what is most important to him (in this case, his sense of style). Superfab begins to learn that being so focussed on one thing though can come at the expense of other things that are important to you. When Superfab gets a second chance at crime fighting, he doesn’t give up his fashionable tendencies, but he does learn to curb the extreme amounts of time he was spending on them. He also learns that something that others might view as a liability can actually be a strength when his fashion prowess helps him defeat the monster that no one else could.