Acquired Tastes: Project Superpowers

Let's take a break from the shameless self-promotion that I have been indulging in lately and turn to something that truly deserves an audience: Jim Krueger and Alex Ross' Project Superpowers.

While Alex Ross was previously best known for taking popular mainstream heroes from heroic to iconic (as he did in collaboration with Mark Waid in the critically acclaimed DC Elseworlds limited series, Kingdom Come), he deserves to be recognized for the way in which he elevates previously unremembered Golden Age comic book heroes and turns them into fully fleshed characters who you can't help but root and feel for.

The storytelling, as one has come to expect from Alex Ross, is mythic in scope, but intimate in execution. The art is gorgeous and the storytelling shows the sure, mature hand of people who have learned that the most compelling stories have much in common with an observation made regarding the remarkable career of Sean Connery: in the end, it is the quiet, noble resolution of the hero as opposed to any number of explosions that makes the viewing experience worthwhile. In other words, true storytelling leaves audiences stirred, not shaken.

Project Superpowers is published by Dynamite Entertainment.

Photo Credits:

The cover of Project Superpowers #0 comes courtesy of Comics 212.