First, before I get to the review I want to say that iFanBoy chose perhaps the worst cover of all the possible covers which include 3 interconnecting #0s done by Alex Ross.  Please don’t judge this series by the superhero on the cover, “Boy King”.

As you would expect this issue sets up the rest of Superpowers Chapter 2, regardless there is plenty of action.  The book begins with a brief flashback of Captain Future, which if you read the prelude issue you know Captain Future will play a signifcant role in this new arc.  However, he is relegated to a flashback of Yank capturing him in Pandora’s Urn.  Flip the page and you get a spread thats a brief Superpower history which features the Superpowers and the Supremecy.  Real time begins with a meeting amongst the Supremecy.  They decide that they need to level NYC (the Superpowers headquarters) to take out the Superpowers in one swoop.  Leader of the United States President West is little bothered by the prospect of some of his citizens being collateral damage.  However, I got the impression that he thinks in the end what he is doing is for the greater good.

Lucky for the Superpowers, their friend the Scarab is also a member of the Supremecy.  The book didn’t go into what I would guess is a complicated sitution.  Regardless, Scarab tells them President West’s plan.  The Superpowers gear up and head to the Pentagon for a premptive strike.  In Green Lama fashion, a tree sprouts up in the middle of the Pentegon and he neutralizes all the “minions”.  Word gets out that the Superpowers are attacking the Pentegon so the Inheritors get ready to go and square off against their former partners because some of them think the Superpowers have gone too far.  The Inheritors are all the Superheros sidekicks that have formed their own league of sorts. 

The Superpowers confront President West who turns out to be a supervillain (as hinted to in the Black Terror mini-series), and the Patriots.  The Black Terror is taken care of quickly and it looks like a major fight is about to begin.  The final part of the book is a spread which shows Black Terror’s origin story as narrated by Kid Terror.

I absolutely love this comic universe.  Its stable, fun, and epic.  In my eyes it can almost do no wrong.  Its what a superhero comicbook should be.  In my opinion, DE has started a new superhero renassiance.  Back to the issue, the artwork is on par with the rest of the books, and we get more tidbits about some of the heros.  Its well worth its $1 pricetag.