the Mighty #12 - DC

The bad new is . . this is the final issue of this series. The good news? There may be life for this character somewhere in the future. The past 12 issues, Peter J Tomasi, Keith Champagne and Chris Samnee have shown us a glimpse into this character's life. A character created by Peter, Keith and Peter Snejbjerg. The whole time there's been a lot of deception, and secrets and misdirection. It seems that Alpha-One has been gathering humans in his sanctuary to experiment on them. He hasn't had a lot of success, but . . he has had some. Most notably is Cole and his wife Janet. Both of which now seem to have the same super-powers as Alpha-One. He claims to be attempting to advance the human race, but . . we still don't know what he was really up to. Anyways, there's a big battle this issue between Alpha-One and Cole. In the end Cole beats him with brains instead of brawn. And Alpha-One ends up locked up in one of his own testing tubes. Also Zachary, the other kid that passed the tests, broke out and is running around loose out there . . somewhere. And only Cole and his wife know what really happened. They're keeping their powers a secret, the final fate of Alpha-One a secret, and the sanctuary and the experiments performed there a secret. So basically . . all we've done is replace one 'hero' with another. One who seems happy, and altruistic . . at the moment. But I would imagine at some point they're going to have to explore the sanctuary and find out what Alpha-One was really up to. And there may be a whole new story after that. Or maybe a story with Cole and Janet . . or Zachary. The current series is over, but there's a lot of possibilities open to them. Hopefully one day they'll explore one of them. The series wasn't a huge success, but . . it did pick up steam as it went along. Overall, I thought it ended up on a good note . . and a lot of unanswered questions. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the future holds.