“Yesterday’s” Comic> Collective Of Heroes FCBD 2019

Now the logo’s glitchy.

Collective Of Heroes Free Comic Book Day 2019

Collective Of Heroes (FCBD 2019…sorry, it’s all the info I have)

This is the last one in the series. Possibly this is before the site, and some of the superhero webcomics they linked to, went down for the count. So this will be our last look at these comics. Sadly…I still have to deal with Wonder Weenies…wait, despite being on the cover they aren’t in this issue? This IS a good week!

The Adventures Of Ms. Rocket by David Fleming

Sadly we only get one page of this comic so there isn’t a lot I can judge. It’s a gag where a freezing supervillain tries to freeze the hero to the ground…except she has rocket boots. It’s an amusing start.

Most by Richard Nyquist (creator) and John Nyquist

This one starts with a look at the power of Echo and Ion, two young heroes left behind when the city’s big hero disappears. “Safeguard In Space” does not star them, however. It explains what happened to the heroes, including their biggest, Safeguard. A strange portal, similar to the one that created the heroes, opens up five years later, this time creating monsters. While that situation is dealt with, the cybernetic genius Mindful is sure another will open and the heroes must investigate. Together with the speedster Fleet and the talking dog Mutt, Safeguard goes to investigate but the effect of this portal was stronger than even Mindful was prepared for. Safeguard tries to hold the ship together, but fails, landing on a planet minus his friends and his powers. However, he has a wife and unborn child waiting for him, so he must find a way home.

This is the first really interesting one of the comic. The first was amusing but we got a one-page gag. This is a good set-up…but outside of a short description of the main characters’ powers, the focus is not on them. Still, this is one I wouldn’t mind reading.

Scapula by Aidan Casserly

Another one-gag page, but at least we’ve seen our failed supervillain before. As for this one: it’s a joke tied in to the “pineapple on pizza” debate. I guess we found something worse than sardines, but I have long since stopped caring. You want weird pizza toppings, watch the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon and tell me there aren’t worse ideas. Moving on.

Delta Dawn by Scott Bachmann (creator/writer), William Grapes (artist) & Nate Lovett (colorist)

Spinning off from Our Super Mom, Paragon is forced back into service in exchange for being allowed to open a school for young heroes. I think this is still free at Drive Thru Comics so I don’t want to spoil too much. It’s really good. Some of the girl students (I have to note that these days) are sent to check in on a crazy who controls electronics, meaning the girl in charge of the mission has to go without her beloved phone and actually stop complaining. It’s a really good story as the various heroines-in-training work together to bring him down.

Adamant by Mike Exner III, Hany Khattab, Ian Waryanto, & Fernando Pinto (artists), Josh Jensen (colorist), & Micah Myers (letterer), no writer listed

Our time displaced hero from a previous issue is now in the 1970s, defeating the arguing Barrel Brothers. Now he’s hoping ARM will get him back home or at least stop the villain whose actions forced him to become a superhero. It’s an okay story on it’s own, but as a preview for where the comic has gone since the last time it also works. It’s a series I might want to read in the future. (Pardon the term.)

Red Belt by James Findlay

So…something happened in this story. I learned more from the intro blurb about people getting superpowers from cellphones or something than I did from the actual story, which just seem to be animal themed costumed people fighting each other tokusatsu style. I really didn’t care for the art, but it’s as frantic as the story, so I guess it fits. Overall I’ll pass on this one.

Stalker by Bradley Potts

Stalker was about to have her final assignment before beginning her new married life, but Public Defender’s sidekick wasn’t expecting her fiance to show up that night. So he gets taken along…which ends up doing nothing for the story. There’s some good action, but outside of explaining some equipment to the reader the dude really doesn’t belong there. Like, have him help in the fight at some point with the goons that don’t have superpowers. We do get a hint that this may not be her last assignment, but that’s for the full series, which this preview does make me curious about.

The Heroes Of C.R.A.S.H. by Josh Winthrop

Another superhero school comic. My Hero Academia and Sky High might get the credit for these things, but I grew up with Hero High so it’s not new to me. It’s a comedy, like most of them are, but no dramatic moments here as well follow the adventures of gadget hero Belt Boy, super strong  muscular but still girly girlfriend Titanium Maiden (that’s allowed?), and obnoxious cannon-armed best friend Cannon. The jokes didn’t really work for me but at least it was more interesting to read than Wonder Weenies. Cannon’s a jerk but he’s not obnoxious and the others we meet beyond the trio are at least interesting concepts. The only real complaint is we don’t know what the acronym stands for.

overall

I stopped checking which of these comics are online, but this had mostly good ones, with only one real stinker. Some of them I might even want to check out. So as the last of these it ends on a high note.