Velveteen vs. The Junior Super Patriots

I've said before that I really enjoy McGuire's writing– even moreso when the stories aren't written for anything besides the enjoyment of herself. The Velveteen Vs series started off as a one-shot in thanks to a couple of fans, and expanded into an online series of short stories about the former child superhero, Velma Martinez (codename: Velveteen), her rejection and subsequent reacceptance of the superhero life. The stories were collected into two published books (“Velveteen Vs The Junior Super Patriots” and “Velveteen Vs The Multiverse”), which I finally bought. If you've read any of the superheros-as-marketing comics (or watched Tiger and Bunny), you'll recognize some of the tropes. In a lot of ways because the series was a spontaneous series of creations, it feels less over-worked than some of her commercial writing.