• The Power Pack is in over their heads (metaphorically) as their powers are (literally) about to start misbehaving and shutting down!
• Only they don't know that yet, which is what's known to STUFFY OLD LITERATURE PROFESSORS as "dramatic irony" and known to everyone else as "oh dang, that's some exciting and suspenseful comic soliciting!" Sophocles used it! Shakespeare used it! Now it is our turn to experience dramatic irony.
• As if that weren't enough, the Power Pack faces ANOTHER threat they never saw coming, delivered to them by special guest...TASKMASTER!
• Honestly, more
Power Pack becomes a lot less powerful when Taskmaster comes to town, and their choices regarding Kamala's law are beginning to come back to haunt them. Read Full Review
With Lightspeed serving as the reader's guide through this issue, the Power Pack show that even when things get rough, their prior experience pulls them through. Read Full Review
Another issue and Power Pack continues to improve, telling its own little story with so much charm. It's a shame this is not an ongoing series. Read Full Review
Writer Ryan North's new run with the Power Pack reaches its best issue yet as it rightfully puts the focus and POV of the story in the character that has the most level heard on their shoulders. Read Full Review
Power Pack #3 has a few things working for it, like Julie's narration and the family dynamic. Unfortunately these elements don't feel fitting for this series and everything else in the issue is disappointing. Read Full Review
This issue was a bit wordy, but that's Ryan North's writing in general. This was good though.
Cute! But lotta monologuing today.
Julie frets through a "too good to be true" day now that working for Agent Aether is part of the Pack's routine. Sure enough, the other shoe slams down when the kids' superpowers desert them during a fight with guest-villain Taskmaster. (Excellent new streamlined Taskmaster design in the art; his voice in the script, though, ouch.) It's a smooth, fun read. The plot is awfully slow and simple. Fun as it is to dive deep in the Powers's thoughts, I think this series might be too introspective.
I'm conflicted about the two panels that show Julie's thoughts drifting to her girlfriend. I like that they're there (I like it A LOT). But I think the risk of confusing people who haven't read Future Foundation (2019) #5 (and there are a LOT more
This story is an amazing argument in favor of Kamala Law. 4 complete fools just threw themselves in front of a criminal who literally shot at them with bo regard for their lives. So irresponsible.
The issue was fun until that point. Unfortunate.
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