Rising Stars
As much as I didn’t like Babylon 5, I am really digging J. Michael Straczynski’s comics. His Amazing Spider-man, though at times a little too mystical for my tastes, is top notch. His new Supreme Power series for Marvel is one of the first books I read when I get home from the comic store. And Rising Stars is proving to be no exception to the rule.
The book follows the fate of 113 people who were in various stages of in utero development when a mysterious energy hits Earth, endowing all the unborn babies with super powers of some kind.
I won’t go into too much detail as far as the plot goes — primarily because this is one of those “plot unfolds as you read” sort of things, and hanging around on a message board all day long has taught me to be very careful about spoilers. Suffice to say, it’s a great read: a healthy mix of the familiar and certain takes on the superhero myth that we’ve never seen before.