Here we go again with a brand new character, and title, from the mighty halls of DC. Again, I have issue #2 in the stack I just picked up this week so . . being a new series and all I figured it would be easier for me to get into it after reading both issues than just the first one. This series is brought to us by Peter J Tomasi and Keith Champagne. With covers by Dave Johnson. We're dealing with the 'retro-active continuity' again here . . my favorite . . as this character is one that supposedly was introduced in the 50's. Almost like they handled the Sentry over at Marvel. The only difference is, right now . . . I don't think the Mighty, actually Alpha One, exists in the regular DC Universe. Right now, this story takes place is a world where Alpha One is it's only super-hero. He's a product of nuclear testing during WWII. Since he's the world's only hero, this guy has a tremendous support group. It's called Section Omega. And it's headed up by Captain Michael Shaw. Basically, they're his 'clean-up' group. After Alpha One does some heroic deed . . . stopping a runaway train, foiling a bank robbery, etc . . . Section Omega comes in and handles the clean-up and asks all the necessary questions to make sure that nothing comes back onto Alpha One. They're kind of like his janitors, and infantry, and lawyers, and media relations . . all wrapped up into one. And he has autonomy from the government because Section Omega also handles his licensing and branding.
"We're funded by Alpha One himself. He's refused American tax dollars many times. The licensing fees from branded clothing, toys, games, videos, books and such, all capitalizing on Alpha One's image, generate a pretty hefty cash flow." The other main character in this title is Gabrielle Cole. He's Captain Shaw's Lieutenant and 'America's Orphan'. Alpha One came across an accident many years ago in which the parents of a child were killed. The child survived and Section Omega took him in. That was Gabrielle, and he became 'America's Orphan'. But already, in issue #1, we have a mystery because at it's end Captain Shaw is killed. In the second issue, Captain Cole goes out on his first mission with Alpha One. They're going after Captain Shaw's killers. They appear to be this group of drug addicts who killed him for some money. He busts in to their hide-out and they all end up dead from the ricochets of bullets bouncing off of him. It's not at all what Gabrielle expected for their first mission. However, I think there's more to this Alpha One, and Section Omega than meets the eye. First of all, how did he know that these druggies killed the Captain in the first place . . and now they're all conveniently dead? And secondly, there were other Captains before Shaw . . . Taylor Rhines who went nuts, and Dominic Deeds who writes books and sells movie scripts. But those are only the ones that we know of. And, at the end of issue #2, when Alpha One foils a bank robbery, one of the ricochet bullets kills one of the hostages. So next issue, we'll see how Section Omega handles this muck-up and what lengths they travel to cover it up. I think this book shows potential. I might just be being overly paranoid with my questions here, but I'm interested to see which direction the story actually goes from here. Is it going to be like
the Boys, or is he going to be this world's Boy-Scout? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Here we go again with a brand new character, and title, from the mighty halls of DC. Again, I have issue #2 in the stack I just picked up this week so . . being a new series and all I figured it would be easier for me to get into it after reading both issues than just the first one. This series is brought to us by Peter J Tomasi and Keith Champagne. With covers by Dave Johnson. We're dealing with the 'retro-active continuity' again here . . my favorite . . as this character is one that supposedly was introduced in the 50's. Almost like they handled the Sentry over at Marvel. The only difference is, right now . . . I don't think the Mighty, actually Alpha One, exists in the regular DC Universe. Right now, this story takes place is a world where Alpha One is it's only super-hero. He's a product of nuclear testing during WWII. Since he's the world's only hero, this guy has a tremendous support group. It's called Section Omega. And it's headed up by Captain Michael Shaw. Basically, they're his 'clean-up' group. After Alpha One does some heroic deed . . . stopping a runaway train, foiling a bank robbery, etc . . . Section Omega comes in and handles the clean-up and asks all the necessary questions to make sure that nothing comes back onto Alpha One. They're kind of like his janitors, and infantry, and lawyers, and media relations . . all wrapped up into one. And he has autonomy from the government because Section Omega also handles his licensing and branding.
"We're funded by Alpha One himself. He's refused American tax dollars many times. The licensing fees from branded clothing, toys, games, videos, books and such, all capitalizing on Alpha One's image, generate a pretty hefty cash flow." The other main character in this title is Gabrielle Cole. He's Captain Shaw's Lieutenant and 'America's Orphan'. Alpha One came across an accident many years ago in which the parents of a child were killed. The child survived and Section Omega took him in. That was Gabrielle, and he became 'America's Orphan'. But already, in issue #1, we have a mystery because at it's end Captain Shaw is killed. In the second issue, Captain Cole goes out on his first mission with Alpha One. They're going after Captain Shaw's killers. They appear to be this group of drug addicts who killed him for some money. He busts in to their hide-out and they all end up dead from the ricochets of bullets bouncing off of him. It's not at all what Gabrielle expected for their first mission. However, I think there's more to this Alpha One, and Section Omega than meets the eye. First of all, how did he know that these druggies killed the Captain in the first place . . and now they're all conveniently dead? And secondly, there were other Captains before Shaw . . . Taylor Rhines who went nuts, and Dominic Deeds who writes books and sells movie scripts. But those are only the ones that we know of. And, at the end of issue #2, when Alpha One foils a bank robbery, one of the ricochet bullets kills one of the hostages. So next issue, we'll see how Section Omega handles this muck-up and what lengths they travel to cover it up. I think this book shows potential. I might just be being overly paranoid with my questions here, but I'm interested to see which direction the story actually goes from here. Is it going to be like the Boys, or is he going to be this world's Boy-Scout? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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