{"id":29787,"date":"2016-12-09T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=29787"},"modified":"2016-12-13T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:51:11","slug":"huck-book-1-all-american-by-mark-millar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/huck-book-1-all-american-by-mark-millar\/","title":{"rendered":"Huck: Book 1: All-American<\/I> by Mark Millar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"huck\"<\/a>I love superheroes, but lately I’ve been\u00a0burnt out on spandex superheroes in my own reading. Needing a mental reading break for myself, I scoured\u00a0the new shelves looking for a hero without a leotard. I found my good ol’ hero in Huck: Book One: All-American<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Huck<\/strong><\/em><\/a> begins in a quiet seaside town with a large muscled\u00a0man bouncing around on top of several cars on a busy interstate. He then runs exceedingly fast and dives into the ocean. He lifts heavy objects, finds what he’s looking for, and deposits it on a local woman’s doorstep. With that quick introduction, readers are left wondering who exactly that mysterious person is. That’s Huck.<\/p>\n

Huck is a local gas station clerk who uses his special gifts every day to do a good deed for someone. Huck\u00a0can find anything and\u00a0anyone. Seriously. It’s one of his gifts, besides super-duper strength and general all-around awesome good guy-ness(Is that a word? I’m making it a word.)\u00a0Everyone in this small town knows to keep Huck’s good deeds and gifts a secret because he needs to be protected.\u00a0Seems easy, right? Nope. A new person moves into town and, of course, ruins his anonymity. With this new person blabbing his story to the media, Huck soon finds himself unwillingly famous and hounded at every turn by anyone and everyone. With this fame, people start coming out of the woodwork looking for help, to introduce him to the world, and to solve the mystery of his past. Huck naturally believes the good in all, but to the people in this small town(and to the readers), it quickly becomes obvious that his new friends may not actually be his friends and the people in danger may not really be the ones in danger. Things\u00a0can actually be\u00a0too good to be true.<\/p>\n

If you want a superhero without spandex or even just a good old feel-good helping story, check out Huck<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Millar and let me know what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love superheroes, but lately I’ve been\u00a0burnt out on spandex superheroes in my own reading. Needing a mental reading break for myself, I scoured\u00a0the new shelves looking for a hero without a leotard. I found my good ol’ hero in Huck: Book One: All-American. Huck begins in a quiet seaside[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[1719,3205,3956,155,2892,787,3490,3955,1321],"class_list":["post-29787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-celebrity","tag-comic","tag-fame","tag-family","tag-good-deeds","tag-graphic-novel","tag-hero","tag-stuper-strong","tag-super-heroes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-7Kr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29792,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29787\/revisions\/29792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}