About the Authors

The Government is pleased to announce that--at considerable expense, and no small danger to life and/or limb--it has secured the services of two of the world's leading experts on costumed crimefighting to pen the most recent edition of The Government Manual for New Superheroes:

A valiant superhero who
bears no resemblance to
Matthew David Brozik

At the age of one, dressed in a Superman costume made by his mother, Matthew David Brozik took first prize (a dollar) in a costume contest. Some years later, pretending to be the Incredible Hulk, he hurled a chair through his bedroom window. He was not punished. As an undergraduate, Matthew studied creative writing with certain literary luminaries and even won some grant money (more than a dollar) to allow him to research the remaining Catskill Mountains resorts for a novella and a play (neither of which turned out very well at all). He performed on stage as a member of Princeton University's riotous and renowned improvisational comedy troupe Quipfire!, which he had co-founded in 1991. His senior thesis was a literary-critical exposition of the Star Wars saga. While in law school, he performed stand-up comedy on occasion. (Okay, twice.) His short, quirky fiction has appeared in such publications as the Sycamore Review, Spout Magazine, Sidewalks, Barbaric Yawp, the Palo Alto Review, and the Dogwood Journal. His considerable catalog of published nonfiction articles on various intellectual property law topics includes one about an ill-conceived infringement of the D.C. Comics copyright in Batman by some joker. Matthew lives on Long Island, New York. He is mysteriously single and has no pets. He has always wanted to be Spider-Man.

A nefarious villain who
bears no resemblance to
Jacob Sager Weinstein

Jacob Sager Weinstein is absolutely, positively not the supervillain known as The Nostril, despite what those meddling newspapers keep printing. Instead, he is a former staff writer writer for HBO's multiple-Emmy-winning Dennis Miller Live, and a contributor to The Onion. He recently sold a pilot script for a comedy series called Hangcliff Abbey to the BBC, and surely the BBC wouldn't participate in the schemes of a some sort of universe- destroying madmen, would they? His work has also appeared in McSweeney's and Washingtonian Magazine. He is mysteriously married and has no pets. He lives in London with his wife Lauren, who is absolutely, positively not the beautiful superhero The Second Soprano, whose uncanny powers are the only thing stopping The Nostril from destroying the universe. Now move along, earthling.