A new comic book spinoff series, focusing on the aftermath of a power consolidation event, uses an uninspired flashback structure that lacks confidence in its storytelling and audience.
One of my least favorite tropes of comic book storytelling is when an issue opens in the middle of an action-packed sequence before flashing back to some time before the proverbial excrement hits the fan, backfilling all the information readers need to understand how the book’s characters got where they were on page one via a series of less exciting scenes.
While I have seen the technique occasionally used effectively to build intrigue or suspense, it most often reads as a lack of confidence on the part of the creators, either in their ability to craft captivating scenes without violence or in the intended audience’s willingness to engage with such scenes.#1 — written by Ryan Parrot and John Ridley, with art by Mike Perkins, colors by Adriano Lucas, and letters by Wes Abbot — employs this trope, poorly executed, and it reeks of a lack of confidence in both the storytelling and the audience, setting the stage for a middling debut of an ambitious spinoff series., true to its name, saw all power — literally, as in the superpowers of various DC heroes — consolidated into the hands of one person, Amanda Waller. With Waller defeated, those comics have mostly returned to their original wielders. However,. The most recent issue of that series set the stage for this spinoff, which sees the Atoms — both Ryan Choi and Ray Palmer — working on a solution to the crisis, in part by conducting painful experiments on Nathaniel Adam, also known as Captain Atom, one of the heroes whose powers did not return to their prior host.#1 opens with Adam traveling. Readers don’t know his situation, yet his aggressively mundane outfit and face-obscuring cap suggest he’s on the run, fugitive style. The tension in the visuals, which contrast realistic linework with sharp but slightly surreal coloring, establishes the atmosphere of a man-hunt in progres
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