Non-standard "Super Heroes"

[zoetewey]

As the guy who writes The Legion of Nothing, I'm all for JH recommending my story.

Not wanting to be entirely self-serving, I'll also recommend another superhero serial--Curveball.

Additionally, if you're looking for someone who's essentially a superhero (at least to the degree Buffy is), you might look into Jim Butcher's "The Dresden Files."

He doesn't have a secret identity, but he does protect people against beings that normal humans can't hope to fight. As a wizard/private investigator, he finds himself coming up against just about anything supernatural--vampires, the fae, werewolves, and so on.