In the original series of the Power family, it lasted for a good 5 years plus and the first 12 issues were simply awesome with heartfelt stories, good artwork and great guest stars. Naturally a series like this needs to be refreshed when sales dip. From our opinion, we believed that rather than refreshing, Marvel made it into a specialty shop sales only hurting the business and then extending the publishing schedule while hiking up prices. And finally using terrible artists ... because they thought that the series would never grow new readers so they were catering to the small rabid group of fans ... well if they think like this, even those fans will get sick of the crap artwork, right?No wonder it got cancelled after that final 12 issues or so out of 62 I think was so bad!
But anyway this is at the start of the series. Check out the cover. The kids looked like kids not stunted adults. And check out the clean lines that convey so much emotions and how about those colours? Imagine this is before computer colouring. That cover is as good as it gets for me!
As for the tale, this is part of the first arc where the kids gained powers. In this issue as the cover already tells you, the kids learnt more about their individual abilities and uses their costumes that was made by their intelligent space ship ... and along the way, we see subplots building up where the space alien baddies come to the fore ... the baddies are Snarks .. lizard like ... while the good guys are horse like ... hey it's a kiddie book as well!
Since it's the kids first proper adventure, the good thing is that we get to see them being clumsy, scared and fighting in the form of reacting rather than like little superheroes which makes this quite an enjoyable 20 minutes reading experience
Ratings: 8/10
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