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Who is that masked man? The real-life superhero who inspired a wild podcast

He was stabbed, shot at and foiled terror plots – before being arrested on drug charges. New podcast The Superhero Complex tells the bizarre tale of Seattle’s costumed crime-fighter, Phoenix Jones

The superhero genre needs to shake itself up. We’ve spent the last decade and a half being told the same handful of tales. We know the origin stories. We know that all the superheroes are contractually obliged to join forces, like a cover of We Are the World performed by people in funny costumes. What we need is something new.

Perhaps that thing is The Superhero Complex. The new podcast is part investigation and part character-study about a scarcely believable figure, Phoenix Jones, a man who bills himself as a real-life superhero.

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