MIGHTY #1

Review by: Tork

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This book I picked almost completely on a whim.  I’ve enjoyed Green Lantern Corps immensely and what I’ve seen of his Nightwing stuff and Black Adam mini was pretty good yet he’s not a writer that I really think of as a writer that I’ll automatically buy something from just because it’s him like I would with Johns or Brubaker, at least not yet.  Still, my pull-list was kind of sparse this week with only Iron Man and Madman (and Scott Pilgrim which was out of stock… grah…), I decided I’d grab it and Jersey Gods if I could (though the latter was oddly out as well).  I’m not sure if DC purposely put this on in a light week for it and Marvel, but f they did, it was a smart move or I probably wouldn’t have bothered.

Though technically a DC book, this feels a lot like an Image superhero book in my opinion.  There’s that clear love for the genre that you get out of Invincible or Faeber’s stuff tinged with the same undercurrent of “If superheroes did exist, wouldn’t there be…” kind of a concept here.  It’s also off in its own continuity, so there’s that, too.  In The Mighty, you have Alpha One, who is the sole superhero in the universe, so he’s kind of a big deal.  Now, being the only superhero, clearly there’s going to be a certain amount of infastructure around him for legal, damage control, licensing, etc.  This infastructure is Section Omega, the support staff of Alpha One lead by Captain Michael Shaw.  The main character appears to be Gabriel Cole, part of the clean-up crew and is implied to be the former sidekick of Alpha One.  Cole has the typical “choose the girl or the duty” dillema except, not being the actual superhero, the social benefits of his job isn’t as glaringly clear as it would be for Spider-Man.

That being said, something develops in the latter half of the book that could go very unexpected or very expected.  If you read it, you know what I’m talking about.  If I didn’t trust the writer, I’d expect to go down the obvious path, yet I’ll give Tomasi the benefit of the doubt. 

The art by Peter Snejbjerg (that’s a kind of name that could keep this book off the podcast) isn’t overly flashy but it gets the job done well enough.  Not hearing that name before, I’m just going to assume the guy’s new and has yet to really polish his work.  Either way, he does just fine with this issue.  Overall, it’s a solid first issue which is an art in of itself.  I’ll be checking out at least the next couple issues.  If you’re looking for something in DC but are a little gun shy at tackling all the continuity, maybe give this a whirl and maybe that’ll you bring you to Tomasi’s mainstream DC stuff.  All in all, this was certainly a good issue.

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good

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