The world of literature has ignored queer fans of superheroes for a long time, but author Cesar Torres has changed the game. He wrote and published How to Kill a Superhero, a tetralogy of novels that has gained a cult following in LGBTQ communities and subcommunities of cosplay, video games, leather and kink. In the pages of How to Kill a Superhero, readers can experience the innermost thoughts of a queer superhero for the first time.

Cesar Torres wrote the series under the pen name Pablo Greene back when the first book published in 2014, but starting in 2020, they retired Pablo Greene and has promoted the books under his real name, to show the world what Pride is really all about. Today, Cesar continues to write new books in the series, but they also has expanded his universe of queer superheroes by creating short films, cosplay photography, ASMR videos, and other content featuring sexy queer superheroes.

Here’s the easiest ways to read the books:

• Buy the paperbacks from our web store or at Amazon

• Download to your Kindle

About the Artist

Cesar Torres is a queer multimedia artist, novelist, and storyteller whose work lives at the intersection of power, transformation, and the body. As the author of the cult book series How to Kill a Superhero, Torres broke new ground in queer speculative fiction by blending mythology, desire, and the Aztec fantasy fiction. Under their pen name Pablo Greene, he began the saga in 2013, and today continues expanding that universe through fiction, photography, and multimedia.

Beyond the written word, Torres creates provocative visual and video art that examines queer identity, kink, and the mythic roots of heroism. His projects include the queer novel/photo-art project Our Lord of the Flowers and the novels 13 Secret Cities and 9 Lords of Night (The Coil)—works that push the boundaries between literature, mysticism, and 21st- century digital performance.

How to Kill a Superhero — Series Synopsis

At the heart of How to Kill a Superhero is Roland — an outsider drawn into a hidden world where power, identity, and desire collide. Torn between pain and transcendence, Roland becomes a vessel for transformation when he inherits the legacy of The Golden Man: a mythic force whose secrets lie in an occult tome of the same name. Amazon+1

Across the four-part saga, Roland’s journey unfolds as a descent into a fever-dream of fetish, power, and self-discovery:

• Book 1 begins as Roland enters the world of leather and kink — discovering not only erotic subcultures, but also the stirrings of a latent superpower. It is a dark initiation, body and soul stripped bare, with Roland learning that power and vulnerability often share the same skin. How To Kill A Superhero by Cesar Torres+1

• Book 2 sees him thrust into peril beyond the sensual underworld in the wilderness of Australia: across a dangerous continent, amid threats both physical and supernatural, Roland must confront forces that might shatter him — and the fragile foundation of his newfound identity. How To Kill A Superhero by Cesar Torres+1

• Book 3 pushes deeper into the margins and extremes. Roland descends into a decadent New York City and attends a legendary fetish and leather event — a fatal meeting point of desire, submission, and defiance. Here his greatest foe emerges — a reflection of the darkness first awakened within him. How To Kill A Superhero by Cesar Torres+1

• Book 4 brings everything to a head in a startling finale. Roland returns to the place where his transformation began — a journey inward and outward — where power, identity, and loss converge. The final battle is more than physical: it demands that Roland face the cost of becoming the Golden Man. cesartorres.me+1

Through these four books, How to Kill a Superhero becomes more than a superhero saga — it is a visceral exploration of queerness, fetish, power, identity, and the body. It reframes the traditional origin-story: not as a bright path toward heroism, but as a shadowed odyssey where transformation is painful, sacred, and deeply personal.

BOOK 2

BOOK 3

NEW in 2018! BOOK 4