Three dazzling short "pilot" stories from AHOY's finest - and you get to vote on which series continues! In "Noah Zark" by Mark Waid and Lanna Souvanny, an alien boy is kidnapped into an interplanetary zoo-and becomes the protector of the animals. In "True Identity" by Tom Peyer and Alan Robinson, we learn what secret anguish drives the most beloved superhero on Earth! And Stuart Moore and Peter Gross's "Bright Boy" tells the grim tale of the world's smartest human and the havoc he leaves in his wake.
Steel Cage is an excellent book that introduces readers to three new stories, one of which will be a future AHOY series. Read Full Review
Taken as a whole Steel Cage is a great way to discover some new ideas and creators this Wednesday, and is a concept that Ahoy might continue in the future with any luck. Read Full Review
Steel Cage #1 pits three decent shorts against each other and leaves it up to the reader to decide which merits a full issue. Read Full Review
True Identity, the best of the three stories, is about a superhero lost in time and struggling with his identity (9/10). Bright Boy is an intriguing mystery surrounding a brilliant, arrogant young man who also has a disastrous super-power (8/10). And finally Noah Zark is a sci-fi adventure about a boy who escapes from an intergalactic circus with several different alien refugees; it is easily the weakest story here (7.5/10). Overall I'd definitely recommend this entertaining little anthology.
This contains three stories. Whichever ones wins, I hope it's not the ghastly Waid entry.
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