I like this book, and I like these characters. But, for some reason, I'm having a hard time getting in to this title. Maybe it's because they aren't really a team yet. I mean . . this is a team book . . right? So far we have about 5 or 6 regular characters. Of course John Henry and Natasha are going to be the foundation for this book. Then we have Erik/Erika . . the same person, they can switch back and forth . . Gerome, who can split himself in 2 . . and Lucia, whom I'm not really sure what her powers are yet. She bleeds alot, and that has something to do with it, but we haven't really seen what it does yet. It seems like, with this title, that they're kind of rolling out these characters gradually. John Henry makes a remark this issue that they need to find all of the Everyman Project participants, and find out what's going on with them now. They dealt with Kid Empty the last couple of issues. He had turned bad. Now they're going to have to find this other guy, who recently broke out of a psychiatric facility, Frank Sparrow. Somehow he can influence peoples minds with electrical devices, radios, TV's and such. We see him at the end of this issue at his Uncle Franks's and he's assembling something in the basement. I guess I understand how they're unfolding this team gradually. And maybe it's not even really a team. Maybe it's just John Henry and Natasha doing what they can for the victims of Luthor's project. But I really think they need to pick up the pace a little bit. I want to get in to it, and I want to like it, but . . here we are 6 issues later, and we don't really know a whole lot more than we did at the beginning. Plus, the artwork on this series so far, has really sucked. This issue was an improvement, but not by much. Peter Milligan is a fantastic writer. But it doesn't seem like he's been given much to work with here. Please give this book a chance! A better artist would really help with that.
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