If you connected with Danny Tozer inheriting Dreadnought’s mantle and figuring out who she is amid Union infighting and a hostile home life, you’ll love how Jess Tran interns at a supposed villain’s lab and uncovers secrets about her city’s heroes in Not Your Sidekick. Like Danny juggling Calamity’s mentorship and the Union’s expectations, Jess has to decide what kind of hero she wants to be—on her own terms—while navigating crushes, secret identities, and the messy, very human side of capes.

Danny’s transformation after Dreadnought’s death throws her into first love, first real team-ups, and first betrayals—classic growing pains with capes on. In The Extraordinaries, Nick Bell’s awkward, heartfelt journey from fanboy of the superhero Shadow Star to finding his own footing mirrors that vibe. If you enjoyed Danny learning to stand up to the Union’s politics and to her abusive dad, you’ll appreciate Nick stumbling (hilariously and tenderly) toward courage, friendship, and a real sense of self.

Dreadnought asks hard questions about responsibility—Danny inherits power she didn’t ask for, clashes with the Union’s compromises, and faces Utopia’s ruthless vision. Vicious dives straight into that moral minefield: Victor Vale and Eli Ever create their powers and then wage a chilling war over who is justified in using them. If the debates between Danny, Calamity, and the Union over lines you shouldn’t cross gripped you, Schwab’s cat-and-mouse of philosophy, vengeance, and collateral damage will hit the same nerve.

If you tore through Danny’s rooftop chases, street fights, and frantic showdowns with Utopia’s schemes, Zeroes delivers that same pedal-to-the-floor momentum. A crew of teens with glitchy powers keeps stumbling from a small crime into bigger conspiracies, forcing split-second teamwork the way Danny and Calamity have to improvise when the Union won’t help. It’s kinetic, chaotic, and full of the kind of clutch reversals you loved in Dreadnought’s fights.

Danny finds a new support system with heroes like Calamity and Doc Impossible, even as Union politics threaten to tear those bonds apart. Renegades leans into that found-family tension: Nova grows up among the Anarchists while infiltrating the Renegades, and the friendships she forms there clash with old loyalties. If the push-pull between belonging and belief in Dreadnought drew you in, the rival crews, undercover ties, and team dynamics here will scratch the same itch.