| $@%&! level: Low “Bedroom” level: Medium-Low (closer to Low, really) Violence level: Medium-High (possibly closer to High, given the tendency toward genocide) Back Cover: “Earth's most revered heroes have vanished. In their absence, the cities of Metropolis and Gotham have fallen prey to the machinations of super-villains and the criminal activities of Intergang. In the heroes' place stand those they inspired, continuing the fight against injustice. Now it falls to such experienced crime fighters as corporate-sponsored Booster Gold and former Gotham police detective Renee Montoya to unite with rookies like Supernova and Batwoman, and create an army of heroes to combat a vast conspiracy of evil determined to take advantage of the missing legends and usurp control of Earth once and for all...” |
To fully understand my reaction to this book, one of the things you'd need to know about me is that Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman are my favorite superheroes. So take them out of play, and I'm left feeling a litte frustrated with the whole thing. I enjoy the Question, but I've never really cared much for Booster Gold, even if he does turn out to be a real hero in the end. And I find Batwoman oddly annoying. So I'm not immediately captivated by the characters, and that means that the story structure has got to be interesting enough to hold my attention. And I've got to say it's a pretty slow build-up. Once things get going, they really move, but they don't get going until right at the end. Up 'til then it's mostly research and investigation, public relations and interpersonal relations, and a few fight scenes that seem kind of tacked on to make the other things more interesting. If it had been my favorite characters, I wouldn't have minded that, but it isn't, and I do.