Three Books Having Something to Do with Superheroes, None of Whom is Batman

Designer info to come

So this started last week when reader Katie wrote in to tell me about Who Can Save Us Now?, the premise of which strikes me as pretty brilliant: invite 22 contemporary writers to invent new superheroes and spin a quick tale about them in a short story. Today's SF Chronicle reviewed Superpowers, and then I saw Soon I Will Be Invincible in a shop window while taking a walk after having been laid up for more than a day w/ a bad back, my powers to drink beer and stand up for 6 hours in Chuck Taylors listening to Mission of Burma, Sebadoh and Public Enemy proving decidedly *less* than super.

Can we agree that the designer of the UK edition of Soon I Will Be Invincible has superDUPER powers?:


The US edition (design by Chip Kidd; check out the entire cover here):


UK edition:


Putting me in the mind of Superfriends and The Wonder Twins, the US edition (design by Maria Elias):


And thanks, Katie, for this: