I should note before starting this review that Rob Rogers, the author of "Devil's Cape" (the recent release from Wizards of the Coast's Discovery line), is a friend of mine. Plus, he used my 
last name for one of the companies briefly mentioned in the background, which clearly is the mark of a genius. Or perhaps just someone who knows that Hebert is one of the most common surnames in the book's setting of Louisiana, take your pick.
Now that I'm fully disclosed (in violation of several restraining orders, let me add), here's your short-version review:
This book is awesome.
And I don't mean in the "Guy Gardner was an awesome Green Lantern" kind of not-really-that-awesome, but "Batman kicking the crap out of Superman in Dark Knight Returns" awesome. In other words, it's really, really good. What I do with HeroMachine is to help bring super-heroes to life visually. Rob Rogers does the same thing with "Devil's Cape" using nothing but words, and yet his characters pulse just as vividly in my mind as anything I've ever drawn. This is a hugely satisfying, truly mature, profoundly good book, which just happens to revolve around the lives of super-powered individuals. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Read on for a much more complete (and much longer) bout of gushing.
