Pitch #4 of 10: not sure quite how to classify this one. It’s part superhero, part self-help, and part Sun Tzu. It’s the kind of book Byron the Berserker might everntually write if he were part of the cape-and-mask community. Call it Supertactics.

Supertactics is a set of meditations on how to maximize effective use of every major super-power, from the basics like strength and durability to the real early advantages like super-speed and mind-reading to the oddball powers that may seem next to worthless but can be nurtured into real badassery with practice and creative application. Think your power to change the color of objects is useless? Your enemies sure won’t when you change their transparent corneas to chartreuse.

There are also sections on how best to resolve every major challenge a hero is likely to encounter, from hostage situations to identity exposure to alien invasion to possession by an evil entity to universal destruction (don’t worry too much about that last one: it never sticks). And for the villains… haha, don’t be silly, no responsible publisher would put out a how-to guide for supervillainy! Wait… how did this section on “how to kill every major superhero” get in here? Oh, no! I should have reread the section on getting possessed by an evil entity!