- Hard Time: 50 to life. Steve Gerber, Brian Hurtt, et. al. 15-year-old Ethan Harrow and his friend Brandon Snood have organized a scare campaign against the attempted rapist jocks of their school. Unfortunately, Brandon is not content with scaring —he shoots and severely injures a few classmates (making sure to leave the ringleader paralyzed for life). Ethan attempts to stop Brandon, and when he fails he unlocks a super-power he never knew he had… and tears Brandon’s heart right out of his chest.
End result: Ethan is going to jail for fifty years.
His wise-ass remarks will not save him —in fact, he manages to make several enemies in the first two days alone.
His new powers, however, just might give him an edge…
First volume of a troubled series that went through at least two different imprints (DC Focus and DC Bullet, both divisions of DC Comics that are now defunct), and which took a sci-fi turn late in the story. This first volume, unfortunately, fails to impress. Filled with stereotypical characters (check out that cover blurb that describes the comic as ‘Oz meets My So-Called Life’ —that’s the big problem here, critic!) and a somewhat underwhelming premise, it’s at least mildly entertaining because of the fast pace.
Gerber had other, more interesting titles in his oeuvre —I’d recommend checking out “Nevada” (a fantasy story with a much better and just as snarky protagonist), also done for DC, for starters.
Oh, well.
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