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Project Superpowers (2008)

by Jim Krueger(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1933305916 (ISBN13: 9781933305912)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Dynamite Entertainment

review 1: So this is actually the staging point of a greater body of work, a reintroduction of Golden Age heroes with a story that is basically an explanation for how they all ended up in the modern day. And there are some interesting characters here (I liked Green Lama especially), but overall the book is pretty muddled. A third of the heroes are hardly even introduced or differentiated, and the reason why the villains are the villains isn't really explored. The idea of a hero being misled into doing evil isn't particularly new, although the implementation here is interesting. And there are many roads to further explore the world created, although the climax of this book isn't very fulfilling. The artwork is very good, though, and not just Alex Ross' covers and background work. I... more wasn't completely sold on it (especially the zero issue that starts it off, which just felt really poorly done), but as an Act I of a larger story, it isn't bad.
review 2: This book was pretty bad. The artwork is good, but the story is absolute crap. The old man's reflection at the beginning is poorly done. The characters get introduced in rapid succession with no development. It glazes over their world war 2 era, and blasts through the present time. Everything is just too condensed, and the writing is not all that great. If you can find it cheap like I did it might be worth it to get it so you can cut out some of the full page spreads and put them on your walls, because the book is pretty. less

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