There was a time, long, long ago when an artist named Humberto Ramos was just coming into his own and this, to us, was the series that catapulted him into "stardom" and for us, this is also his best work to-date! Here he gave us not only his own style where there is the Asian influence of anime/ manga where characters come with giant eyes and comical expressions but also designed his version signature call it what you want of big feet and big hair!
In this issue, together with writer Mark Waid, they continue the adventures of Bart Allen aka Impulse and Max Mercury as both try to learn how to live a normal life! For those not in the know, Bart was raised in a virtual reality environment in the future. Hence he was matured very quickly with almost no ability to relate to real reality. That is the challenge for Max trying to encourage him to connect with humanity while living in Suburbia and this is a very fun issue indeed!
First there are a lot of visual gags especially with the thought balloons in pictorial form for Bart
And then we see that his challenge for this issue is to go to school, a regular school and make friends to which Bart doesn't really seem to give a damn. However, inspite of his irrelevant attitude, it seems like his brain is working overtime and we see him handling all sorts of school cliques including bullies and jocks and actually understanding them, orchestrating them until he made them end up going after each other instead of him while he chills out and watches with relaxed ease!
It is kind of hard to explain as the story is really that simple. But the joy in this comic is in watching it like a good sitcom on tv on a sunny afternoon with the whole family. It does bring a smile to our faces when we see this though
Ratings: 7/10
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