Sunday Trade: Power Pack

Power Pack: Pack Attack, The Avengers/Power Pack Assemble!, Spider-Man/Power Pack: Big-city Super Heroes written by Marc Sumerak and illustrated by Gurihiru

The Powers kids, a team of four brothers and sisters given powers by a magic space pony. No really. Each kid was given one of the alien warrior monk's Fundamental Universal Forces powers so they could save their parents from a selfish race of reptilian scavengers. Oldest Alex (Zero-G) controls gravity, young teen Julie's (Lightspeed) have to deal with electromagnetism I think, shallow Jack (Mass Master) has control over his own mass & density and youngest Katie (Energizer) uses some kind of thermodynamics control to absorb and expel energy...

These three trades collect three of the recent Power Pack mini-series. I'd always dismissed the Pack as "a goofy little kids book". I mean magic, space pony? A bunch of little kid super-heroes? Bah! Humbug! And so forth. I mean sure, I like Alex when he popped up during the Nicieza New Warriors run, but that was about it...

Which means I probably missed out on some great stuff. Marvel may do a lot of things that annoy me, but publishing these Pack minis sure as hell wasn't one of them. The Pack teams up with WW2 vets to beat up Taskmaster! Kid Spider-Man! Guest appearances by Katie's "boyfried" Franklin Richards co-written by Franklin Richards: Son of Genius writer and artist Chris Eliopoulous. And thats not even mentioning the Power Pack/Hulk or Power Pack/Punisher minis...

So go, buy the Pack pocket books (they're cheap!) and see how awesome a "kids" book can be!

A conversation

Roommate: Did you douse the whole place in Fabreeze?

Me: It wasn't Fabreeze.

RM: Whatever, did you make the whole house smell funny?

Me: Its neutral scent. You're smelling what stuff smells like not covered in your own stink. ((To be fair I should have said OUR stink. But what are friends for if not cheap shots?))

RM: Its not neutral. It smells like something. It says neutral scent but its a lie.

Me: No really, this is what the air is SUPPOSED to smell like.

RM: *finger*

Girl's High

I should probably feel guilty for liking this series as much as I did. I mean its five hours high school girls running around having stereotypical "girl" adventures. Interspersed with a constant stream of PG-13 fan service. So really, being an enlightened kind of dude this should be beneath me. But its just filled with so much..fun. I just end up finding every cliche amusing instead of boring. Like the Stereotype Yuri Couple (Kashobi/Mori), a pair of background characters. All they do in any scene they have is hold each, look dreamily into each other's eyes and recite goofy, overly melodramatic romantic nonsense to each other...

I just can't bring myself to worry about enjoying the series...

Need ideas!

I've got no ideas for a new Tuesday Tangents. Someone give me some Marvel characters/titles we haven't already done!