I continue to play catch-up, only this week I’ll be doing fillers or articles (depending on my back, the reason there was no Jake & Leon last night) as usual.
"Teen Titans? We have a robot!"
Danger Club #1
Image Comics (April, 2012)
WRITER: Landry Q. Walker ARTIST: Eric Jones COLORIST: Michael “Rusty” Drake LETTERS/LOGOS: Jimmy Bentacourt EDITOR: Branwyn Bigglestone PRODUCER: Javier Jose Diaz
Meet Kid Vigilante, the Magician, Fearless, and Yoshima. They’re the Danger Club, a team of sidekicks and now possibly the only superheroes left. The heroes went into space…and never returned. Now Apollo is trying to turn the remaining sidekicks into his personal army and the Club isn’t going to stand for it.
What they got right: I like the concept, even if “kids are the remaining heroes” have been done before. Usually, though, it’s heroes being turned into kids or “kids” and “adults” mystically separated. (I’m referring to episodes of Justice League and a recent Young Justice.) This time it’s what do the sidekicks do if the heroes leave before their training is complete. The fight between the Club and the “New Olympians” was pretty cool, if not a bit on the bloody side.
What they got wrong: No introduction page. We don’t learn our main characters’ names until half-way through the story. While I understand keeping a certain aspect of Yoshima a secret, they did a real cool open page right out of a Silver Age comic, and demonstrates a different time for Apollo and the Club, but introduce two characters that were injured during an attack we never see. Is there a #0 out there someplace?
Recommendation: This is not a kid-friendly comic. The fight is kind of bloody. That seems a surprise after works like Little Gloomy, the comic book version of Batman: The Brave & The Bold, and of course Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures In The Eighth Grade, but once you realize this is intended for older audiences, you’ve got a really good first issue and I honestly want to read more.
"Umm, your not supposed to bow yet."
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