“A clear departure from Minister Faust's first novel, "Dr. Brain" demonstrates an incredible range from the author. The novel is at once a hilarious satire of superheroics and psychology, and a complex, multi-layered analysis of the forces at work in our own world.
The novel reads like a self-help book for superheroes, which allows its fictional and eponymous author to deconstruct the superhero mythos in a way barely hinted at in Moore's Watchmen. At the same time, Faust infuses these failed, flawed superheroes with deep, complex psyches, thus making them work as caricatures, but yet possessing depth and complexity rarely matched in the genre.
"From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain" is a pleasing, funny, thought-provoking story, with character who have more depth than you'd think. Riddled with funny superhero culture references, it is nevertheless a well-constructed fable, a story as complex as real life but much larger than it.”
