The Fellowship was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of THE SHIELD #1 from Dark Circle Comics (an Archie Comics imprint). Adam Christopher
and Chuck Wendig write, Drew Johnson draws, Kelly Fitzpatrick colors, and
Rachel Deering letters.
She has no identification of any kind, but the she stopped a
crime. She also did a bunch of collateral damage, and Cole thinks she knows who
the mystery woman is. Cole arranges to let her get away, and the woman runs.
She also has a few moments of clarity and a bit of an awakening along the way.
But when she finds Cole again, something else – something bigger – finds them
both.
Our mystery woman learns fast. She goes from nobody to
superhero in a single issue. And I like that approach – too much emphasis these
days on origin stories, so that this book gets right into the action is a nice
change of pace (there might be a pun there). And our meeting with the “bad guy”
is brief enough to plant lots of questions in our minds, and not much else. Oh,
and then there’s the fight scenes. They’re amazing, especially the single-page
one where she takes down three guys.
If you’re into exciting, action-laden re-envisionings* of
historic superheroes (that’s "historic" in at least two senses of the word), then
this is your book. And who isn’t into that, really?
*I’m not sure that’s a word, but
it should be.
~Mike ( @MikeyGeek )
