Will Robson

Spinning out of Dan Slott's Fantastic Four Vol. 1: Fourever and canceled immediately after issue #1 was published, this aborted series is all frantic adventure and set-up that goes nowhere other than teasing a Power Pack revival (that did show up as a limited series a year or so later).

Alex and Julie Power are teachers for a group of young prodigies who are barely named and definitely given only a single personality trait (except for those who get none). A bunch of other B-level Marvel characters are shoehorned in, but even with each of their full complex histories crammed into a couple of pages of small panels, they don't have much personality, appeal, or reason for being in this story other than maybe no other writer is currently using them right now.

There's an LGBTQ+ storyline, but like everything else here, it is zipped through too quickly for its own good, coming off more as a stunt than an organic development. Still the best part though.… (mehr)