M.Y Alam, Divya Ghelani, Luan Goldie, Gaia Holmes, Pete Kalu, lisa luxx, Irfan Master, Avaes Mohammad, Courttia Newland, Bidisha, SK Mamata, Karline Smith, Lillian Weezer, Ra Page (EDT) Cuckoo Cage

Annotation

The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests - General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional identities that ordinary protestors adopted, often dressing up in the process.In this unique experiment, twelve authors have been tasked with resurrecting that tradition: to spawn a new generation of present-day British superheroes, willing to bring the fight back to British shores and to more progressive causes. From the dimension-jumping statue-toppler, to the shape-shifting single mum raiding supermarkets to stock local foodbanks... these figures offer unlikely new insights into shared centuries-old political causes, and usher in a new league of proud, British (social justice) warriors...