Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard's The Power Fantasy makes a strong first impression.
It's 1966. An angel and a telepath are casually eating pizza on a street corner. The angel worries they will miss seeing The Lovin' Spoonful play live if they don't hurry. The telepath asserts that the ethical thing for them to do would be to take over the world.
One could label The Power Fantasy as a thinking person's superhero comic. Gillen's penchants for irony and wordplay are on full display, leveraging the double meanings of words like"superpowers" and the very notion of a power fantasy . That interrogation continues in Etienne who, unlike Professor X, is all about keeping power in check. Knowing that any battle between the superpowers would undoubtedly lead to mass extinction, Etienne has seemingly memorized the writings of all the great ethical philosophers, wielding their teachings like variables in an equation he has written to solve for right and wrong.
With The Power Fantasy, Wijngaard has reined in some of the raucous energy of his most recent work, the weathered anarchy of Home Sick Pilots and brutal savagery of All Against All. It's still recognizable as his artwork, but more focused and controlled, with some of his sharpest linework. It's a visual style that fits a story where every violent action could mean the end of life.
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