A strange visitor from another planet, a dark and brooding super-patriot, a rampaging monster of destruction, and an interdimensional princess cross over from their world to ours. It's what happens when they find themselves in need of the sort of help that only super-heroes can provide; it's a stab at the presently ingrained super-hero archetypes without any of the intrigue of corporate intercession. Each one of the main characters represents one of the familiar super-hero archetypes, but they also represent certain factions of the comic book industry, too.
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Everybody knows there are no superheroes in this world. But why assume that this is the only world? Physics seems to smile, however thinly, on the notion of parallel universes, and writers have always re-ordered reality as they pleased, or there wouldn't be superhero stories at all. Dan Jolley and Tony Harris did a bang-up job with a world in which superheroes exist in The Liberty Files [BKL My 15 04], and Young and McKinney also entertain by first offering a superhero-sodden existence much like this reality--for instance, complete with celebrity-autograph hounds who aren't above the pretense of being in trouble to attract overly serious, caped crime fighters--and then tossing superpowered analogs of Superman, Batman, the Hulk, and, perhaps, Alan Moore's Promethea into this world, where they don't all behave well. Cast mostly in the virtuosic black-and-white that is AiT/Planet Lar's house distinction, with a central flashback in color a la 1950s comic books, this amusing caper zips along so quickly that it seems more graphic novella than novel. Ray Olson
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Too Short,
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There's a very interesting story here in spite of the obvious character imitations. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, it's a very thin book with little time to develop characters and settings, and while the general plot regarding super heroes coming to a more realistic world and having conflicting opinions on what to do about it is intriguing and could have made a very good mini-series. There area a few good lines, too, such as the inevitable tagline, "Nobody learns anything. Everybody dies." With limited build-up, though, even that line falls flat, as does the rest of the book.
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Pointless and irritating,
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The story begins (as too many comics do these days) with thinly veiled versions of iconic heroes running around a world like our own. They're moderately interesting however just as we get to know them an accident transports them to another Earth without superheroes.
The thinly-veiled Superman character goes nuts, kills the others and dies at the hands of the Batman clone. The end. The back cover promises "Nobody learns anything. Everybody dies." Well at least they're honest. Skip it.
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