One of the great mysteries of the event that destroyed America's greatest city and turned its greatest heroes into savage hunters of humanity has been "Where are the supervillains?" Where did they go, and what have they been up to? This issue, we find out where all the bad guys went before the good guys made them obsolete! The intense horror/hero story continues as the tension escalates!
I love that this whole miniseries has a grid of interconnected covers, with this cover completing the top row of the posterized image. It reminds me of the Art Adams covers for Original Sin (of which I have all of them) that I would also like to get put up on the wall in a nice, nerdy collage of awesome art. This book, even though it’s about a city filled with superheroes who are turned evil by some monstrous creature that infected them with evil and rage, still somehow manages very well to feel very human. The stuff with the Disobedience Wolves was a nice bit of cinematic “otherworldliness” that I wasn’t expecting from this book, but seeing the good guy turned bad guy Ribbon show up, only to be dealt with in a VERY violent and graphic manner helps to drive home that this book is absolutely not something to be taken lightly. The humor of this book is really driven home with the interaction between the Crimson Dynamo and Mina, where he asks her to be his sidekick, and she literally laughs in his face- to which he counters by offering her steak. I know that I would definitely be someone’s sidekick if he offered me a nice supply of red meat and a safe underground lair to hideout in if the city were over run by super heroes turned evil (though, that almost feels like a first pass pitch to 10 Cloverfield Lane). The art on this book is dark and awesome, realistic, even with the outrageous violence, and really just a lot of fun to read. I am interested to see where the spelunking couple ends up, and to find out more about whatever this is that infected all these heroes. Not to mention the last page of this book- that final reveal, and the turn that this story took here, at the halfway point, was one that I did not see coming, but that really blew my mind. I cannot wait for more, and I am really, REALLY excited for more of the Megalopolis story to unfold. I really hope that this miniseries isn’t the end of Megalopolis, because I think that this is a big, and ver