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Dial H reads like a Pegg/Frost movie with a Marvel budget & Miéville concept. Slacker Nelson Jent discovers a mysterious telephone booth that turns him into a randomly selected superhero. This is more of a crapshoot than a reliable plan. As it sometimes gives him powers out of proportion to the situation, then there's the time he had to hide out in his house due to his culturally insensitive #costume
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When you dial H-E-R-O on the magic dial you turn into a random superhero. Cloud Herder! The Iron Snail! Bumper Carla! Miéville's unbridled creativity is almost too much to handle, but the more this strays from a traditional superhero narrative the better it becomes.

The issue where Nelson can't leave the house to stop evil because he dials a culturally insensitive hero (Chief Mighty Arrow) was pretty great.

Perhaps I might have maybe sort of swung into the Things From Another World comics shop while I was out and about today??? #bookhaul

Let me tell you about the comic I'm reading.

In 1966, DC introduced a comic called Dial H for Hero about a boy who turned into a random superhero by dialing HERO on a magic phone dial.

In 2012, after the line-wide shake up of the New 52 stopped China Miéville from taking a swing at Swamp Thing, DC let his boundless creativity loose on Dial H.

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I'm usually a regular Dr. Pepper man, but then I thought "Tobe, Tobester, Tobi Wan, it's the #LitsyPartyofOne! Go crazy!"