Mister Terrific #1 W: Eric Wallace P: Gianluca Gugliotta I: Wayne Faucher
Another
day, another character I know nothing about. A Golden Age hero who was
brought into the Justice Society of America, quite why he's been
catapulted into one of the only 52 books remaining is really unclear
since it reads like second string throughout. It's competent enough, but
never exciting at any point and has a real identity crisis - it starts
in the present day London and appears to have been written by somebody
who has never been there, before skipping far into the past for a bit of
character establishing and then back to the present day for a plot
completely unrelated to the London sequence. It's easy enough to find
yourself swept along liking it enough, but two panels stand out for me:
Ummm.
Wow. Race complex, much? Self-identifying as "black guy"? "Black woman"
who is genetically different to a white one solely on the basis of
colour? Wow again.
I really have no idea who thinks stuff like
this is a good idea. But it's weird enough to make me think about not
taking this beyond #1.
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