30. (760) Power Pack vol 1 #1 ... #powerpack

[The last time we did a real life review was on 15th Jan 2017 and we backdated the entry to 7th Jul 2016. So as you can see, it has been a while and honestly while life has been tough this year, it is no excuse, right? So suffice to say, we will attempt to fill up the holes via back reviews and basically a review will be dated every Monday and Thursday. Sorry for those who follow us]

This is the first issue of the first volume where Marvel at the height of is 80s strength and with forthcoming Star Line comics decided to do a full regular Marvel Universe comics based on children and it was successful to the extent that it spawned very loyal fan base that has its own newsletters many of which continued years after the official comic's demise. If it had been in today's world, there would be online fan fiction and perhaps it could have survived even longer

But we are not here to discuss fan fiction or why the comic demise ...

Here we get to see a regular American family (or so we assume as we are not Americans) ... father is a smarty professor lecturing ... mom is an artist painting covers for books ... and four kids evenly spread with 2 boys and 2 girls ... eldest is a boy named Alex followed by serious and bookish Julie then Jack the adventurous one and finally Katie the youngest ... the good thing is the art did make them look like kids with imperfections and all that ... and personality wise, they all share one common trait inspite of individuality and that is to be goody-goody ...

One fine day or rather one fine night they saw/ heard something ... and rushed to find a space ship and alien (horse like) ... and before you know it, they are imbued with special gifts. Where the alien possesses all four abilities, it was spread out amongst the kids with Alex having limited control over gravity (Gee), Julie can fly fast leaving rainbow trail (Lightspeed though she is nowhere near sound speed), Jack can turn his body into a cloud or shrink into dense form (Mass Master) and finally Katie who can absorb items to power herself up and shoot bolts of energy from her chest (Energizer) ...

Naturally with powers comes ... alien enemies ... and that's where the fun takes off ... this issue will continue into the next until the first arc ends in #4 ... 4 was a bit of a nostalgia moment for us because it was our first issue bought before all the back issue hunting ... hehehe!

Ratings: 7/10