Books

[dsrtao]

_King City_, Brandon Graham

If your superpower consists solely of a multipurpose cat (can be used as a skateboard, a lockpick, a periscope [by sticking your head in the cat's butt] and as a camera; can self-parachute; may be smarter than you), perhaps you should give up.

I don't know why I finished this. I suppose I wanted to see if it was going somewhere; as it turns out, no.

Comments

Sidekick

[metageek.livejournal.com]

If the cat has all the powers, and is smarter than you, then you're not the hero; you're the sidekick.

Re: Sidekick

[dsrtao]

You'd think that, wouldn't you? But all the willpower, motivation and interactivity with others comes from the nominal protagonist.

It might get better if the cat turns out to be the hero, but I don't think it's going that way.

Re: Sidekick

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

So, possibly, the author is chronicling the wrong entity.