by Matthew Rosenberg,
Patrick Kindlon, Josh Hood
Publisher : Black Mask
Comics; Illustrated edition (December 22, 2015)
Softcover, 164 pages
This book takes elements
from several standard superhero elements and mixes them together with the boy
and girl on-the-run-after- committing-a-crime trope. It isn’t the most unique
concept for a superhero - or, more accurately, super powered comic as there are
no real heroes in this story - but it does a lot with what it has. In the short
space used here, a decent universe is crafted or hinted at. There is a much
more nebulous universe lurking behind the tale of two dimwit runaways.
We have Madison, who
secretly has the superpower to become bulletproof and beat the crap out of
people when she becomes angry. She befriends Duncan, a high school misfit who
waves his father’s gun around like a cock extension. She is tired of her life
where she is forced to pretend to be normal, and Duncan is tired of not being
able to fit in. Madison accidentally kills Duncan’s father and the two run off
together. They sustain their runaway by ripping off a local drug dealer and
then fighting the police.
Each decision they make
drags them further and further down a hole to what will be a bad end. It seems
that whenever one of them just about claws their way to the light, the other
steps in a does something stupid to keep them on the run, wounded and with no
money. The smartest thing Madison does is walk away from Duncan. They are each
other’s kryptonite. Alone they might survive. Together their road ends at an
early grave.
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