Written by Patrick Scullin
Edited by Hayley Raynes
Printed by Banshee Comics
It is becoming more common to see web comics put up as a collected edition, and this 2009 collected edition of Super Siblings is just that. A black and white graphic novel from the surprisingly cool Super Siblings web site run by Patrick Scullin. The cool part of all this is that if you are inclined you can flip through all the content for free on the web site, or you can help out the author and purchase the Graphic Novel and get the same entertainment. Meet the Clarks goes all the way back to the beginning of the story line, where super kids and mundane parents are trying to live their life, while the kids are out there fighting bad guys.
This is a pretty common story line, as in been there done that not just in movies but in cartoons, printed works, and the odd podcast to go along with that. The nice part is the way that Patrick handles the whole process. Of course the kids being superheroes requires that the parents be dumber than a box of rocks so that the kids can go off and fight evil doers. What is nice though is that he is touching on things like family time, how to balance work life math and fighting crime. His approach is somewhat realistic when you have parents that make Forrest Gump look like an attentive person who knows what is going on around him.
It is good to see works like this in print, because it really give the author a method for making a couple dollars to support their own creative process. For that reason alone this is worthy of picking up. The best reason though for getting the book is that it is funny, we have been there, and the story line is not stale right out of the box. Patrick does a good refreshing story line in something that could quickly grow into something other than entertaining. If you can find it, it is worth throwing a couple dollars his way and buying the book so that he can keep on drawing. If you don’t you can get everything for free on his web site, but realistically you should support the artist if you like the work.
Rating this five of five stars, funny, clever, reasonably easy to read, and is a digest of the story line to date. Worth reading and keeping and spreading the word, hey if you can’t have kids that think and act like super heroes while the parents go about their lives oblivious to what the kids are doing, then what are you doing with your life?
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