Power Pack #2 is an excellent issue that manages to be entertaining, funny, and intelligent without being pretentious. Come for the Outlawed tie-in, stay for the power plant explanation. Read Full Review

Power Pack #2 is an event tie-in done right. It doesn't get dragged down by its constraints and instead uses it to really make its characters stand out and just have fun with it. The issue tackled is a potentially serious one, a tone that doesn't match the team. So, the creative team keeps things in the Power Pack's court making sure they're front and center and the event is just another storyline. Read Full Review

This issue seems to be setting up an interesting take on superhero IP, positioning the title heroes as literal cogs in the machine, it's surprising that they were able to get away with it. Read Full Review

The Ryan North magic is on full display! This is a glorious second issue with new superheroes, intense silliness and some real educating material. Read Full Review

This issue was batshit and full of entirely unexpected stuff, which is to say that it's much more what I'd been hoping for from a new Ryan North comic than the first issue. There's still a bit of a "difficult second album" vibe, but this series is definitely moving in the right direction.

So cute, although I am a little disappointed about the villain.

The Power Pack finds a mentor who is, of course, too good to be true. There's a decent if slow-paced serving of plot development here, and it's garnished with an ample side of Ryan North Humor™ that I really liked. I felt like I was surely going to hit a blinking "EDU-TAINMENT!" sign by the time the turbine diagrams came out, though. But I would 100% endorse giving or reading this to a nerdy kid.

This was better than I expected. A bit slow and wordy, but good.