I thought this was a fantastic first issue. Not at all what I expected. I mean look at that cover. It looks all happy and enthusiastic. It looks like Steel and Natasha are just going to start teaming up and happily fighting crime. At least that's what I see on the cover. But the reality, happily, is far from that. All the kids that went through Luthor's everyman project, and with this book we're specifically targeting the Infinity Inc. kids, are having trouble dealing with everything they've gone through. Specifically going from being nobodies with no powers, to media heroes with amazing abilities. And really that transition would've been hard enough to deal with, but then, at the height of their fame, Luthor decided to shut them all off. Took their powers away. And in essence took away their uniqueness and specialness. The thing that set them apart from the rest of the crowd. What made them feel . . . alive. And now it's gone. We only see a couple of them this issue. Of course Natasha, but also Erik Storn, Fury, Gerome McKenna, Nuklon, and Dale Smith. I'm not sure what his abilities were. But they're all trying to come to grips with going from nothing to something, and back to nothing again. But now they seem to be manifesting new abilities. Which is where Steel comes in, because he wants to try to help them. But that may be harder than it looks, as on the last page when Nastasha, screaming and begging for help, fades away in to a cloud of steam. While John Henry looks on in confusion. Like I said, not at all what I expected. But if they can keep up this pace and intensity, it should prove to be a very interesting series.
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