Sensation Comics provides a good look at how superheroes can inspire people in their lives as we follow Santiago on her mission in Afghanistan. While the book initially gives you the belief that we're dealing with events within the world of superheroes, it instead plays it in the real world sense with those we know and are familiar with being what they really are, just comic books. But the power of the form is compelling here in what it can allow people to do and to imagine that they're doing in order to cope with stressful situations. There's some good things here in exploring the culture of both the area and the military, but it's also an area that I'll easily admit that I wasn't looking for within my comics. I get plenty of that elsewhere, but I can see the importance and usefulness of it all. It's simply not for me. Read Full Review

You can't win them all.  Amy Chu's one-shot is a heavy handed and cliched story that just left me feeling down.  Bernard Chang's art, however, was fantastic and saved it from being a total bomb.  This is one of the first issues of Sensation Comics that I can't recommend. Read Full Review