I always look for good world-building in my fiction and fuuuuuuuuck this sound like some GREAT world-building. Stan Lee drew on the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Struggle when he created Mutants and the X-Men - this is like that taken to its logical, politically charged conclusion.
My biggest concern is the art so far......................
ehhhhhhhh...........................
Copper;8773649 said:
Reminds me of the milestone universe I read as a kid. Black kids and gang members got powers from a mysterious explosion.
yeah my aunt was a top executive at DC in the 90s so i got sent tons of DC books including Milestone. Hardware was an interesting ultraviolent take on Iron Man, Static was the one that blew up ofc, but imho
ICON was always the best series and the one that deserved the TV/Movie franchise.
The setup was just too GOAT - alien crash lands in antebellum south, black slave finds him first, the ship changes his appearance to match "the locals", said alien fights in the Civil War and other black struggles throughout history while faking his death multiple times. It's like Wolverine's backstory, but better. The line where his sidekick goes "So that explains how you're a Black Republican -
you're from outer space!" still cracks me up lol. They did a great job of juxtaposing his old-head black conservative views with the sidekick's liberal black militancy and their back & forth banter was great. He peacefully surrenders to police scared of him and she's like "I bet this doesn't happen to Superman..." yeah, i need to dig that trade paperback outta storage, that was Dwayne McDuffie's magnum opus R.I.P