The Superior Comic

The Superior Comic opens with a couple of kids at the cinema watching the latest release in what can only be described as a Superman film, sure the names been changed but the message remains the same as in he’s a goodie two shoes who doesn’t kill, eats white bread and loves his mom and is ultra powerful.

Film ends and the kids leave the cinema while discussing the film, and are intercepted by a couple of bullies, did I mention that one of the boys is in a wheel chair?
No, well he is, suffering from multiple sclerosis the boy in wheel chair says if I weren’t in the chair… bully says well guess what you are, Mum appears, situation is defused and for the next few pages we learn how Simon (the one in the wheelchair) used to be the most popular athlete in his school, but now feels like a prisoner in his own body.

That night Simon has an experience, an alien Monkey visits and tells him that out of six million people he has been deemed worthy and grants him a wish.
And with a flash Simon becomes Superior.

Now nothing about this story is particularly original, every comic book fan has at some time wished that he could have superpowers, and this story could have been written by just about any 12 year old, but it has been written, and as a serious comic book story its been done well.
The art is absolutely fantastic and although several expletives are used within the story they are not noticed in the context, unlike a certain other four colour funny from this writer.

All in all this is a good comic and one can hope that it is being written and drawn for the right reasons, that being to expand the awareness of multiple sclerosis, if this is the case I wish it well, but I do hope that it doesn’t deteriorate into a pile of over indulgent crap, but even if it does, no doubt it will have the Movie Moguls beating down the door for it.

Another well Mannered review by the well Mannered Boy.