Ok, I'm getting into this book a little more, but I gotta' say, it's still to racist for me. Now granted, this story is set in 1962. And, those were different times back then. But, I'm of the belief that just because you may not know something's wrong, doesn't mean it's not. But anyways, the CDC, Civil Defense Corps, has been split into 2 teams, the CDC and the SDC, Southern Defense Corps. This was done because even though you take a human and give them superhuman powers, at the core, they're still human. So now instead of a racist man, we have a racist super-man. So since they were of 2 diff. views of their new black super hero, the American, they thought it would be best to split in 2 rather than trying to work together, when they had such diff. beliefs. Whether this is going to work or not, remains to be seen. Now the American, is off on his own chasing after Hellbent, a super villian created by the same govt. group that created the heroes. But Hellbent has gone off script and decided to live up to his reputation and go on a killing spree. He decides to make it personal and goes after the American's brother. So now the American is after him. It's also creating turmoil because members of the CDC want to go after him too, but now they aren't allowed to go into the SDC's territory. The story really is written well. It's just a little to preachy to me. And some of the characters are a little to stereotypical. But, like I said I am getting into it more. And Georges Jeanty is doing a nice job on pencils.
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