It Sure Is A Super World!
I wonder if anybody has ever written a long article detailing all the different divisions in small press comics fans. Maybe The Comics Journal got around to it at some point, but I mostly couldn’t stand that magazine even before they priced themselves out of my range anyway. I’m asking the question because it’s obvious from that cover that this is a superhero parody (and a good one) and was curious if such a thing turns off a segment of the small press comic reading public before they even crack open the book. The main story deals with Incredolad, whose “secret identity” has long since been figured out by everybody in his town, and he is completely oblivious to this fact. While hanging out with friends in his secret identity a girl starts drowning, so naturally everybody is telling him to save her, to get his stupid costume on and fix it, but he spends to much time trying to convince them that he isn’t Incredolad that the girl ends up drowning. This does not go over well with his friends or her parents, and he makes matters worse by underestimating his own strength in trying to deal with her father. Hilarity ensues, if you think angry mobs are hilarious. Other stories include a piece on a group of teen heroes who turn much of the populace into vampires (featuring the worst “street” accent I may have ever seen in comics, and with all these pasty white artists and writers (and reviewers), that’s saying something), the story of the Love Lantern (who carries around the heart of Aphrodite in a jar to help her fight crime and meet men), and a story about a Superman and Batman stand-in going to see their psychiatrist (dealing with “Superman’s” being able to hear every cry for help from around the world and “Batman’s” inability to have a mature relationship). It was a funny collection of stories, unless you’re one of those people I may have just made up who hate everything remotely related to superheroes. $3.49
