This is an interesting book. It seems to me that Masquerade isn't really a super-hero in the normal sense of the word. Yes she is a hero, but . . she doesn't really have any powers of her own. Except . . she seems to have a mind for analyzing things. Basically what happens, whenever she gets into a stressful situation she slips off into this trance like state. From there she can think through all the data, and clues, and ideas to find a pattern and a solution to whatever the problem happens to be that they're dealing with. In that way, she's kind of a catalyst for whatever heroes she's working with. She can help to point them in the right direction. She even knew ahead of time that the Fighting Yank was up to something. She didn't really know what it was, but . . she knew it was big. Next issue she's going to talk to him. This book is written by Phil Hester. Carlos Paul does the art. Carlos is really the star of this book. His artwork is really pretty damn good. And he seems to be getting better all the time. Why did a Beatles song just pop into my head? Sorry. I got distracted there. Anyways, as I've said, I think Alex Ross and Jim Krueger have a heck of a franchise going here. It's got a ton of potential. And, really . . it's just getting started.
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