The Fellowship was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of DEMIGODS
#1 from Bleeding Ink Comics. Jesse Grillo writes, and Luigi Teruel draws.
Aren has a pretty stable life, if not a normal one. He lives
in an orphanage dormitory with other supers where he’s given drugs and taught
to harness his powers. It’s all pretty calm until he and a friend get busted
accessing the outside world. In a whirlwind of events, he gets broken out of
the orphanage with some other innocent kids, gets hyper-exposed to the
not-so-nice world around him, and gets really angry.
There are some fun ideas here. We’re not given a timeframe
(could be now, could be future) or much of a reference to the outside world,
and that leaves a great deal open for development. It’s obvious that the world
is unstable, and that somebody is doing bad things to children, but that’s all
we’ve got. And that openness gives a whole bunch of fun potential for this
story. And Aren seems to be a nice kid, too, with room to develop.
This book has some interesting supers action with the
potential for some real human stories and some weird future-tech too. I’m
looking forward to seeing where they take it.
DEMIGODS #1 is available now online or by order from indyplanet.com.
~Mike
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