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Did anyone else pick this up? I was attracted by the Georges Jeanty art, he was the artist for the Authority short "Isolation," the one with the Engineer looking to get laid. It's another dark side of the Silver Age thing, but for the most part the character designs are intriguing and the central character Wesley - an out-of-work ad man tapped by the Kennedy administration to work as spin doctor for the "Civil Defense Corps."
The art was pretty, for the most part, and it manages to mix the optimism in with the "everything you know is a lie" routine. The emphasis on Wesley is intriguing but his wife's a cipher and I'm hoping she's given more to do soon.
It's got a lot of potential, we have some really good plot threads started, and I'm hoping they successfully follow through. I'm a little annoyed that the cool looking supers mostly ended up being your standard variety JLA knock-offs, but the story's focus is more on Wesley than on them, although the local Lois Lane equivalent has some potential in light of the local Superman -- a guy named Pharos -- and his origins. I'm curious to see if this is actually meant to connect to the rest of the WS 'verse, because if they incorporated Jacob Krigstein from the Authority...
I also question the reasoning behind naming a perky Silver Age super-heroine (who, I think, is supposed to be the local Green Lantern-type) Amber Waves, seeing as the other association for the name is Julianne Moore's coked-out porn star character in Boogie Nights. But, I'm curious and willing to see if #2 proves to follow along with anything interesting. Did anyone else read this? |
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