Author: Patrick J. Reilly
Artist and Cover Art: Renato Mapa Jr.
Letterer: Wilson
Printed By: Jackalope Pictures
Well it starts off with a bar fight, comments about your own brand of under roo’s, and the misunderstanding that a villainess in this case is really supposed to try to kill you, your family, and everyone who even tried to associate with you. Not a bad start to what ended up being a funny comic book, and since I am starting with issue three, it was easy to walk into the story and figure out what was happening pretty quickly. This ended up with a number of giggle factors that really will appeal to the teenage audience that it is aimed at, and is one of those stories that is silly, but also has enough spandex and fights to keep it fast paced and enjoyable for me who is pushing that age demographic right out the door without notice.
In the longer run, what do you do when you find out your super heroine girl friend is hanging around just because of the baby? Alternatively, that you can sprout off some new super powers you did not even know you had when the love of your life is getting her soul sucked out of her and she is only hanging around because the baby needs a daddy. Interesting, and the dialog between the characters reflects a lot of what we take for normalcy in our families. Kids will automatically pick up on a lot of this, which may or may not keep them entertained depending on their background.
I enjoyed this, but it is a superhero comic, not that this is bad, but that you really are working with a new generation of super heroes that seem to come from broken homes, make poor decisions, and often don’t know why they are doing what they are doing. In other words, it is more like real life, which is refreshing in so many different ways. Comic readers of all ages need to see more real life and a little less vigilantism or politics twisted by the people who are writing the story lines.
This is an enjoyable comic book, and I am glad to see that independent comics are expanding into a more human story line than the hero always wins. Sometimes heroes should be surprised that they won anything when they find themselves in absurd places to begin with. Well worth reading, well worth finding in print if you can, otherwise, the only place to find this is online in digital format.
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