Captain
Dynamo is the brave and powerful defender of Tower City. With his amazing powers, no villain can
terrorize the city for long. So after his sudden death, the city is now
undefended and is easy picking for all the deceased hero's enemies.
But Maddie
Warner, Captain Dynamo's widow, soon discovers that even though her husband was
one of the greatest heroes in history, he was not a very faithful husband. After
going through his personal belongings, she finds out that he has at least FIVE
children outside their marriage. She tracks them down, and makes them become
Tower City's new defenders. None of them are as powerful as their biological
father, but each of them has one of his incredible five powers(Super-vision,
telepathy, super-strength, shape-changing and flight). As a team, they are
ready to take on any villain.
Together,
they are Dynamo 5!
As you may
have figured out by now, Cap Dynamo is pretty much a Superman ripoff. And Image
Comics has ridiculously many of those. Luckily, that is pretty much the only
thing about this series that is a rip-off. The villains that Dynamo 5 must face
is very varied, the action is superb, it's actually funny, and the element of
drama that comes when five strangers finds out that they are siblings is simply
to die for. This series is everything good about superhero tales and soap-opera
without feeling forced. Unfortunately, the series was only 26 issues long, and
only followed by a 5 issue limited series and a Christmas special. Which is
REALLY weird, since this series is possibly the best thing ever printed as a
Image Comic series.
All of it
is collected in five paperbacks. So go to your local comic-shop and try and see
if you can get this unappreciated series about the world's most powerful
bastards.
Next time,
the hero that I'm going to take a look at may not have any powers, but he can
still kick ass.
I'm Waezi2,
and thanks for wasting time with me.
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