The Academy of Superheroes
This is an original fiction universe from rec.arts.comics.creative. The URL goes to the ASH web archive. Created and written mostly by Dave Van Domelen, who's a Physics professor in his real-world secret identity.
The prose quality is extremely high. It's all good, aside from a couple of stories (I'd stay away from the couple tagged LNH 2023). ASH has the some of the best worldbuilding I've ever seen. Awesome explanations for superpowers, high technology and magic. There's a great deal of attention to detail in the setting and timeline, as well. The ASH stories are mostly set in the 2020s, in a world recovering from a near-apocalypse that claimed the lives of the last generation of superheroes.
Stories are available on the site in plain text format and ebook downloads. There's a lot of them - these guys have been writing since 1998. The ASH website has a guide on where to get started reading ASH, though even that guide's coming on ten years old itself. But everything's numbered comic-book issue-style, so it's easy to figure out what's older and newer. If you're willing to start diving into this, the ASH material is really rewarding.
-- Acyl
This is an original fiction universe from rec.arts.comics.creative. The URL goes to the ASH web archive. Created and written mostly by Dave Van Domelen, who's a Physics professor in his real-world secret identity.
The prose quality is extremely high. It's all good, aside from a couple of stories (I'd stay away from the couple tagged LNH 2023). ASH has the some of the best worldbuilding I've ever seen. Awesome explanations for superpowers, high technology and magic. There's a great deal of attention to detail in the setting and timeline, as well. The ASH stories are mostly set in the 2020s, in a world recovering from a near-apocalypse that claimed the lives of the last generation of superheroes.
Stories are available on the site in plain text format and ebook downloads. There's a lot of them - these guys have been writing since 1998. The ASH website has a guide on where to get started reading ASH, though even that guide's coming on ten years old itself. But everything's numbered comic-book issue-style, so it's easy to figure out what's older and newer. If you're willing to start diving into this, the ASH material is really rewarding.
-- Acyl