Project Superpowers #0 - Dynamite Entertainment

This really was a fantastic book. But then again . . I really expected nothing less with Alex Ross and Jim Krueger at the creative helm. What I was really surprised by, though, was the fantastic interior art of Doug Klauba and Stephen Sadowski. It was fantastic. It wasn't exactly in the style of Alex Ross. Although from what I understand, he did some of the layouts and sketch-work. But that's ok. It was really good. And really, it had it's own style. The story is told through the eyes of one old man, Bruce Carter, the Fighting Yank. As were going through his story, we see several paintings, and all of those were done by Alex Ross. Basically, these heroes that we're going to be seeing fought during WWII. At that time, the Yank was led to believe that Hitler had in his possession Pandora's Box. Which was really an urn. He was led to believe that since the urn had released the world's evil's, that it could also be used to collect them. But things weren't working out exactly as he had planned. Supposedly, when the urn released evil, it also released hope. Which formed itself in the essence of the super-powered humans who would live to fight that evil. So, it was then formulated, that in order to catch the evil, the hope would also have to be contained so that when both were in the jar, they would hold each other there. Ying and Yang if you will. So he had to go around and start capturing all his fellow heroes. Which he did. Gradually over the years. And now here he is, some 50 years later, and there's still evil in the world. The spirit of America comes to him to explain to him that he was misled. So now, he has to go to Tibet to look up one of his brethren, the Green Lama, and find out how to release his compatriots. This was a #0 issue, so obviously it was the set-up for the series. The large cover you see above was the standard duo cover issue. They place together to form the large picture. Although I don't understand why they couldn't just do a wrap-around cover. But since this issue was only $1, I guess I can't complain to much. I didn't get any of the variants though because they were $20 each and there were like 4 or 5 of them. Yeowtch! My wallet would've been screaming. Anyways, the book served it's purpose. The look in to the series was enough to grab my attention. I'll definitely be picking it up to see where it goes from here.