These first seven issues are apparently only the first chapter in this new franchise created by Alex Ross and Jim Krueger. From this opening salvo, we branch off into some solo titles . . Black Terror, the Death Defying Devil . . . and then, I guess, back into the second chapter of this magnificent series. This issue really wraps up the first story-arc quite nicely. Basically, all of the heroes that were released are over in the middle-east fighting off the 'zombies', basically, or everyone who's died in the last 50 years defending our country. I'm a little confused as to why the fight is taking place over there, as opposed to our home soil, but I think it all goes back to the experiments that were being done to re-animate dead soldiers. Basically, that's where the testing ground was. I believe this was all part of the evil machinations of the Supremacy. They're the ones who really run the world right now, and the Dynamic family have become their personal soldiers. Anyways, this story started out with the Fighting Yank . . he's the one that originally betrayed all of his colleagues by trapping them in the urn . . and later came to free them by breaking it. However, that act of attrition wasn't enough for most of the freed 'supers', and eventually one of them shot him down. Now as he lies dying, he finds out that the only way he can survive, and offer any kind of help to his friends, is to assume the curse of his ancestor's spirit that's haunted him for all of these years. This leads to the Green Lama making a proclamation of live TV that . . . " . . we shall become a check to balance the corruption of the nations of the world." I'm not sure if they know yet about the Supremacy . . . ultimately their arch-nemesis, but . . they've just issued a proclamation of war to them. I thought this was a pretty good opening chapter. We got introduced to a whole lot of new characters here, but they pretty much glossed over most of them. I'm sure we'll be getting into specifics in future story-arcs. This chapter just focused on a handful of them. Which is good, because the alternative would've been a bit overwhelming. I also thought that this book was a pretty good introduction to Carlos Paul's artistic work. This series . . and these characters . . have a bright future in front of them.
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