Never Meet Your Heroes

Never Meet Your Heroes: Chapter Three

Dick Grayson Kari Christopher Swanson, billionaire owner-and-CEO of mega-conglomerate Swanson Foods, was widely known as a doting father. Therefore, one might mistakenly believe that he would have some reservations about his infamously beloved and only son and heir moving across the country to attend university at a city where “supervillain attack” was a category for both insurance and PTO. But that was where they would be very wrong, because Mr. Swanson was the kind of…

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Never Meet Your Heroes

Never Meet Your Heroes: Chapter Two

Jason Blood Christopher Swanson Christopher Swanson’s son, Charles—Charlie now, and he was getting better at remembering—hadn’t always been into magic. Christopher was of the opinion it was a normal teenage thing, having an occult phase. He’d grown up in the 70s, which might have been the source of that opinion. But all signs pointed to phase, so he wasn’t worried about it. It was honestly a little cute. It’d started at the right moment for…

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Never Meet Your Heroes

Never Meet Your Heroes: Chapter One

Batman Batman There were usual suspects when there was “a disturbance at Arkham Asylum.” More people would have broken out than broken in, both generally speaking and right now in particular. Because right now in particular, the Joker was in there. Batman and quite a few other people would very much prefer to keep it that way. Guards swarmed the exterior of Arkham like ants around a disturbed nest. They were sticking close to the…

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