WORM WEB SERIAL SERIAL
WORM WEB SERIAL SERIES

Fans who all absolutely love the story will debate endlessly about the morality of many characters’ actions, and this is not a bad thing because like I said before, there are no clear answers in this world. The other amazing thing about Worm is how much makes you think. And those aren’t even characters we see on-screen! Wildbow’s worldbuilding is incredibly expansive and detailed, and it would take more space than I have here to fully appreciate it. Take all the comic books on the shelves today, and they would look positively mundane next to the power to conjure a hail of steel knives in midair and telekinetically drop them on enemies, the power to cover an area with ash and teleport through the ash, or the power to grow wooden armor on your body that you can also shed and turn into remote-controlled golems to fight with you. They’ll find horrifying, deadly uses for the most innocuous of powers, and they’ll find heroic uses for the most nightmarish of powers.īut beyond that, there’s the sheer creative variety of superpowers in this world. Parahumans find endless creative uses of their powers to help them in a fight instead of relying on a few family-friendly comic book gimmicks. In this world, the villains are actually smart and often win.

The second thing to know about Worm is that it’s a reconstruction of the superhero genre, tearing it down and rebuilding it into something more realistic and better. There is black, but it’s mostly grey and gray in the end. There’s certainly no black and white morality here. Think Watchmen, and you’ll start to get an idea of what I mean. On-screen sex is just about the thing that doesn’t apply. You can pretty much assume there is a Trigger Warning for almost everything there is to have a Trigger Warning about. The world of Parahumans, also known as the Worm-Verse, is a dark and gritty place, as much a horror novel as it is a superhero story. Definitely worth reading, at least through Arc 3, if nothing else. And above all, it’s incredibly well-written. Worm was completed in 2013, and it now has a sequel, Ward, which is currently in progress. On her first night, she gets mistaken for a supervillain, and things spiral out of control from there. The main character is Taylor Hebert, a fifteen-year-old girl who wants to be a superhero despite her not very publicity-friendly power of controlling bugs. It’s hard to get your arms around everything Worm entails.

WORM WEB SERIAL SERIES

McCrae, set in a world of superheroes and supervillains, known as “parahumans.” It’s basically a series of 31 short web novels, or “Arcs,” telling one massive story.

WORM WEB SERIAL SERIAL

Worm is an epic web serial written by Wildbow, also known as John C. I’m going to try to do this spoiler-free because you really need to experience this for yourself.

I just had a lot of other posts I wanted to get through, and it’s hard to keep up sometimes. Hello Prehistoric_Echoes! Please give this topic a read.Okay, it’s taken me a while to get around to this one. Taught me a lot, and it’s just so well done. I happened upon this story around June, and it’s been…monumental in my understanding of literature and characterization. She sets out to become a superhero, but the rest, well…you should read and find out.įirst off, figured I’d create this to see if anyone else here’s read it. If you’re a prospective reader wondering what it’s about, in a world where people can get superpowers, a high school girl named Taylor discovers she has the power to control bugs. It tends to have a lot of game changing chapters. If you haven’t read Worm, you can find it online here: I’d highly recommend reading it first, since any discussion here would probably be laden with spoilers. Skitter, Tattletale, Armsmaster, Lung, Scion, your favorite hero, your favorite villain, your favorite Endbringer? Talk about them all here! “Doing the wrong things for the right reasons.” - Official TaglineĪ discussion thread for Worm: A Complete Web Serial by John McCrae.

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