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of the story? Why, the very original idea of superheroes becoming goons for the military, set off by an invasion of Amazons that I suppose would mean something to a new reader if they were given any idea what the heck had happened to decimate the White House. But to know that, you'd have to keep up with all other DC comics, which they seem to think people have the time and money to bother with. Nice try, but no sale. We add into this mix the idea of superheroes as celebrities. Again, how original, if I hadn't already read ULTIMATES and X-STATIX first. Isn't this idea a little played out and stale? And is the cultural worship of celebrities really even original anymore? Maybe if Miss America and Phantom Lady were found passed out in their own puke and raided for cocaine possession it might have some kind of satirical value. How many times has this plot been done? However many it might be, Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti seem to think they can bring something fresh to it, but they don't. The dialogue, too, is terrible, mostly exposition, and characters are drawn puddle-thin. It's really just another example of treading water and recapitulating ideas that had been interesting five years ago but now seem like copies of copies of copies, I guess to go with the lazy artwork.

The artwork might be the saving grace of this; Renato Arlem seems a good draftsman as far as it goes, if not for the stiffness of his characters and his obvious Photoshopping of repeated, and inexpressive figures into panels, which is unforgivably lazy. The faces also give the impression, many times over, that he didn't know what the dialogue was going to be and so left them open to anything the writers cared to put in their mouths after the fact.

Not really worth buying, not notable, not gripping. Bad comic; no biscuit.

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