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PROJECT SUPER POWERS #1

Dynamite Entertainment 

Hmm.  Long feted as “Alex Ross’s Golden Age Super Hero Revival” I was surprised  that Ross is credited as “Plot,covers and Art Direction”. 

The plot and script,as you’ll know if you purchased the book,is by Jim Krueger with art by Carlos Paul. In places the art style can look a little ugly or odd but it is not as awful as I first thought.  I think that the story let’s everything down.  I said it once I say it 343000 times;it’s as though The Watchmen or The Dark Knight is the only reference to bringing back old heroes.  They are not. 

I did want to try an interview with Alex Ross or Jim Krueger to try to get some feel of what their thinking was but,apparently according to Dynamite,I cannot interview Ross or Krueger on the series. 

   Well,**** you.  Way to get support from the media but then again CBO only gets 16000 hits per week so we probably are not important enough! I have a very long memory,though. 

I’m going to see how #3 turns out because I really want to see how things develop,though I,for one [and there are many others if you check internet groups,who feel the same] do not consider these to be the Golden Age heroes I know and love. 

Just another Public Domain spin-off. See what you think. 

NEW EXILES #2

Marvel Comics 

I know,I try to avoid Marvel or DC comics [after all they don’t send review material!] but I’d hate anyone to miss the New Exiles –nice story-telling by Chris Claremont and Tom Grummett and great inking by Scott Hanna [as though you could expect otherwise] and Wilfredo Quintana does an excellent job on colouring. 

Okay,I have no idea why they had to start fron number 1 again or add “New” to the title and I still call it The Exiles –as do most fans.  Seriously,this comic shows how a comic book should look and feel and is a treat from cover-to-cover. 

A title Marvel should be proud of. Buy! 

THE TWELVE #2

Marvel Comics I’m sorry,but I just hate this cover.   

Interior art is very nice and excellent inking by Garry Leach.  However,I’ll refer you all to my comments earlier re. Project Super Powers. 

These are not the heroes of the Golden Age Timely Comics.  Dynamic Man displays his racial prejudices thusly,once again,showing that Straczynski hasn’t realised that the character was an android –you might ask,after #1,why an android would be labelled as possibly gay but now you have to ask whether an android would be racist?? 

And if Rockman is so overwhelmingly concerned about his underground kingdom after 60 years,why,why,why doesn’t he just find a ******* cave and return to it?!! And wouldn’t the Moleman have overthrown that kingdom by now?? 

We also have to [yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn] once more hear that some of the original Golden Age heroes,such as the Blue Blade,were nothing more that publicity-seeking glory hounds. 

Thank the lords that Straczynski did not profess any great “love for these Golden Age Timely greats” pre-publication! I believe that Straczynski seriously burned out of ideas after his run overlording Marvel’s Maxx line of Hyperion,Squadron Supreme,etc..  It’s all becoming very,very stale.  As with Project Super Powers,I’ll keep checking this out but mainly for the art.