For The Love of Reviews - KILL ALL PARENTS!
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When a scientist receives a vision of an apocalyptic future, he decides that the only way to avoid that future is by ensuring that every child with powers becomes a superhero. To make this happen, he kills the parents of each of these children, giving them the tragic past that motivates the to lead a life of service.
Twenty-three years later, the superheroes find out.
This is the premise of Image’s Kill All Parents one-shot by Mark Andrew Smith and Marcelo Dichiara, and a very interesting premise it is - intriguing me more than enough to pick up a book by a creative team that I wasn’t familiar with from a publisher that is very hit-or-miss for me.
In the execution…. I’d say Smith and Dichiara pulled it off. My biggest complaint is that I wish there was more to the story, that it had been spread out over a three- or four-issue miniseries instead of just a one-shot, and that’s really not a bad complaint to have. Always leave them wanting more, and all that wot.
Those who have been reading this blog for any length of time will know that I don’t focus alot on art, mainly because I realize that I don’t have a great eye for it, so all I can say is that while the art is not mind-blowing, it is very solid and fits the story incredibly well.
The writing is also quite solid. I can foresee complaints about the book being full of cliches and stereotypical characters, but I suspect that those are quite intentional and are actually the entire point - the overwhelming majority of superheroes have one common element in their origin - the loss of an important parental figure early in their lives. In fact, the book has a bit of fun with those stereotypes, including references to one heroes’ tendency to be bad luck to his girlfriends and another’s “old ‘Hurl The Remorseless Villain Into The Sun Trick”.
In all, I’d say this was a fun examination of what would it be like if all the superheroes were a result of a vast government conspiracy. I’ll be sure to check out Smith and Dichiara’s next projects, hopefully they will be just as fun.
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When you told me about this, I was pretty intrigued, but seeing that it’s a one-shot is disappointing. It’d be interesting to see this as a mini, or better yet an ongoing.
I mean, you have to figure while the majority of the powered children would indeed become heroes, theres gotta be a few who would lose their parents and go batshit and become evil. Or some would find out what really happened to their parents and fight this scientist.
I still wanna pick this up though.