A picture of Trish and Mebby
(The Starbuck Avenger and Corpseflower) by Shaenon Garrity.
Tales of the Starbuck Avenger!!! is a completed Web Serial Novel and superhero story by Jeffrey "Channing" Wells (probably best known for writing Skin Horse with Shaenon K. Garrity of Narbonic fame). It is serialized on Livejournal (The Starbuck Avenger and Corpseflower) by Shaenon Garrity. - if you want a quick taste, here are the first three installments.Tropes used in this work include:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: It is implied that the Goffin Robotics factory was taken over by A.I.s.
- Doppelgänger: Some of the Goffin robots.
- Kryptonite Factor: Goffin robots can be incapacitated when scratched with needles of a certain semi-metallic selenium alloy.
- Mega Manning: The alien gains powers by robbing small items from superpowered individuals.
- Orphaned Series: Defied.
Jeffrey Wells: Is there a TV Trope for "We were sure it was never going to be finished but then it was?"
- Talking the Monster to Death: When Trish is attacked by the Absolvatron, she escapes being beaten unconscious by confessing her sins to it.
- Weirdness Censor:Garuda: We call it 'the Coverup'. It's hellaciously efficient and it frequently boggles the mind and we have no clue who or what causes it. It's like a vast conspiracy, orchestrated and executed by the careful hands of reality itself.
