Customer Reviews:
 Concentrate, please, we've a lot to get through October 31, 2008
I don't mean this review, I mean the book. Although it's a superhero story set in the Marvel universe, it's quite a dense read. What we have are 12 superheroes, put into hibernation at the fall of Berlin in 1945, and discovered in the present. While they knew each other, they weren't a team and they're all very different people. So there's a lot of information to impart in the text, characters, backgrounds, plots to set up which the author (I hate typing Straczynski) does pretty well.
The basic premise is that it isn't easy for any of them. One, a very sympathetic character, is haunted and guilt-ridden about his family. Another, 'the man of the future', finds the future a very different place from the one he expected which wasn't that unlike Hitler's. They are a pretty dark and grim bunch on the whole and this first part (of two) isn't a barrel of laughs. This is serious stuff and it's done well. Chris Weston's art is appropriately detailed and 'realistic' and suitably grim in its matching the text.
If you're in the mood for it, it's great. Otherwise stick to (the very good but tonally opposite) Ultimate Spiderman.
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