Dynamo5: Post-Nuclear Family written by Jay Faerber, drawn by Mahmud A Asrar, colors by Ron Riley, letters by Charles Pritchett
Captain Dynamo was one of Earth's greatest heroes. Blessed with super-human strength, flight, enhanced vision and eye-blasts, telepathy and shape-changing. And then he was found dead, naked in a motel room. Which lead to his wife finding his little black book and learning he was a philandering asshole along with being a super-hero. Seeing the city he protected up for grabs from his old foes Maddie, the widow, tracked down five kids from her husband's affairs. And then exposed them to the radiation that gave her husband his powers. Each of them then gained one of their previously unknown natural father's powers. And joined together as Dynamo5...
Faerber writes good old-fashioned super-heroics with just enough of modern day dramatics to keep things interesting. Though the most enjoyable part for me is how well Faerber crafts non-standard families as team books. He was one of the few people other than Nieceza I liked as
New Warriors writer and he also writes the ultimate in dysfunctional super-hero families
Noble Causes. With
Dynamo5 you can see the five Dynamo kids organically grow and bond together, both as a team and as siblings...
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