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Danger Club #1 Comic Review

By Dan Horn
April 4, 2012 - 13:42

Danger Club, written by Landry Q. Walker with art by Eric Jones and Michael Drake, is a new comic series from Image Comics in which the world's superheroes have left Earth to battle an interstellar threat. They never returned.

Danger Club #1 opens with some fun comic book kiche, but it quickly becomes apparent that the series won't be reveling in comic nostalgia for long. Rather, in this debut issue, readers find that the adolescent superhero population, now left unattended in an embattled city by their ostensibly deceased parents, have gone the way of Lord of the Flies. One of the original teenaged heroes of the Danger Club, Apollo, more or less a Superman/boy analog, has realized his god-like potential and lords over the other super-powered children, forcing them to fight in gladiatorial matches to gain entry into Apollo's elite army.

The other members of the Danger Club are on the run, but they're not going to take it anymore. After Yoshimi finds a mysterious artifact on the moon, Kid Vigilante and company have their secret weapon en route when they engage Apollo and his followers in a brutal, bone-shattering battle royale.

Danger Club #1 presents an entertaining premise and interesting characters, augmented by incredibly dynamic artwork. It does a wonderful job of seeding its concepts subtly without laboring through unnecessary exposition, and it impressively wraps up its first chapter--or prologue, perhaps--while leaving its readers desperately wanting more. To be fair, some of Apollo's diatribes are awfully trite, and his exchanges with Kid Vigilante leave something wholly original to be desired, but these are minor discrepancies and the scripting overall is commendably solid. I'm definitely hooked on yet another Image series.

Rating: 8.5 /10

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