Friday, October 17, 2008

Project Superpowers #6 - Dynamite Entertainment


I appreciate what Alex Ross and Jim Krueger are trying to do here, but . . there are just entirely to many characters here to keep track of. I assume that's why we seem to be focusing on 2 0r 3 each issue. We're up to issue #6 here and they've introduced 12 to 15 new characters every issue. That's insane. I don't know how these guys thought up all of this stuff. Plus now, the Black Terror is spinning off into his own book. I assume it'll be a mini-series like this . . but still. Also, last issue we found out that #7 will be the finale for this first installment. It'll be back in a short period of time . . but I'm just wondering how they're going to integrate the stories. There's a lot of cool ideas and concepts that have been presented in this book so far. I really enjoy reading about the various directions that these characters have gone in, and are going. On top of creating these characters . . their histories, and powers . . now we find out that because of all the time they've spent in the urn, that their powers are changing or they're developing secondary mutations. Oh wait . . that's the X-Men. But they are all being changed after we've just been introduced to them. And it looks like the Fighting Yank may be going through the biggest change of all. Of course he's the one with the most to lose . . or gain . . depending on how you look at it. Anyways, so far I'm really enjoying this world that these guys have created here. I think they may be pushing their artist, Carlos Paul, a little bit to hard though. There's some big problems with some of the panels in this book. Basically it looks like there was some work that was rushed. Don't get me wrong, I think Carlos has incredible talent and potential, but . . not everyone can put out the work like Alex and Jim can. Overall I'm sure this series . . and all it's various spin-offs and chapters . . will become classics. Right now there's just an awful lot to swallow. But, really, they've only just begun. Please fasten your seat-belts and keep your arms in the ride at all times. And thank you for visiting Dynamite.

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