Last issue, the Fighting Yank, with the help of the Green Lama, went to Dynamic headquarters, the home of the Dynamic Family, to retrieve the urn in which the rest of the heroes of his age have been held captive. In the process of looking at it, Mr Dynamic drops it and breaks it . . . . . . nothing happens. Nothing happens? Mr Dynamic, firm in his belief that the world is science based, had someone excise all the magical influences from the items in his collection . . including the urn. So with no magic involved . . Bruce Carter's quest is moot. Right? Wrong! The first to emerge from the dust is the Black Terror. As much as he's mad at the Fighting Yank for putting him in his previous situation, he seems to be more mad at Mr Dynamic after he tosses him off the top of the high-rise, and he lands in the street below. This issue he gets back to the top, and he is pissed off. He starts tearing in to the Dynamic Family and soon finds out that they're all robots. Meanwhile we find out that the other heroes are coming back, but they're not showing up locally. For some as yet unexplained reason, they're popping up all over the globe. The Devil shows up in some alley somewhere, the Scarab and Samson show up somewhere in the Middle East and the Flame shows up near the Hollywood sign. Apparently when he was pulled into the urn, he was with his wife Linda . . in her arms . . . and then yanked away. He's emerged full of grief and sorrow. Which kind of seems to be a recurring theme here. As the hero's emerge they're beginning to wonder what happened to their loved ones. The Black Terror, after he and the Fighting Yank retreat from their fight with the Dynamics, back to the Green Lama's home, starts to wonder where his sidekick and best friend, Tim, is at. In the back of the book there's some more sketchbook pages and we see the faces of another 15 heroes. So far I think that Alex Ross and Jim Krueger are doing a fantastic job with this story. The impressive part to me is how they've come up with all these heroes, 30 some now, and are coming up with histories, emotions and feelings for all of them. Sure they handled as many characters when they did the Earth X series, but . . . they didn't have to create all those characters from scratch. Truly an impressive task! My hats off to you guys for such an auspicious beginning. Oh yeah, I can't forget Carlos Paul's artwork. I wasn't sure at first, but now I'm convinced that he's the perfect talent for this book. His flow and framing seems great. My only criticism is some of the poses he puts his people in to. They just don't seem very . . natural. And really . . that's just a very minute complaint. It's something, I'm sure, as this title progress' he'll get better and better at. Right now, I'm actually very impressed by his work. Even with that one complaint, there's actually a lot of very good stuff in this book. This may be the best series Alex and Jim have done yet. And . . . thanks for all the hard work.
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