Hippie heroes.

• Author: Suderman, Peter
• Position: Briefly Noted - Warren Ellis' No Hero - Brief article - Book review

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Warren Ellis' graphic novel No Hero (Avatar Press) is a superhero take on the seduction and corruption that comes with power. It describes an alternate history in which a team of hippie heroes starts out in '60s Berkeley projecting a socially conscious, do-gooding image. "I am an American, I am a chemist, and I am free," their leader announces from the corner of San Francisco's Haight and Ashbury. "We don't want to own anything, rule anything, or control anything."

Yet over the decades, the team members refuse to share the secret of their power, and by book's end they are revealed to...