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Less Than Heroes

By Hervé St.Louis
December 9, 2004 - 13:51

Yurkovich has constructed an entire mythology around the concept of the super hero that builds on the best stories published about the genre such as The Watchmen, the Authority and Marvels. In Less Than Heroes, the Threshold, Philadelphia’s only sanctioned super hero team lives the good live of a crime-free city, villains, tired of syndicates in other town decide to move.

Yurkovich delves into the idea of the syndicates, those professional super hero teams stationed in each city, providing protection for the locals. Where the story weakens is that several plots such as the government project with the space explorers, are abandoned abruptly. Hopefully, Yurkovich will tie all loose threads in a future volume.

Yurkovich’s visual work is not standard super hero material but it works. His style is closer to something out of Vertigo than the X-Men. I can only imagine artwork like that of Kevin Maguire or Adam Hughes to capture the story. A bit uneven at times, Yurkovich pulls in a major effort where his careful panel layout and storytelling exist without the backing of a standard super hero feel.

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