By Ed Brubaker, Dustin Nguyen & Richard Friend (WildStorm)
ISBN 1-84576-251-7
Three years later, the world is not a happy place and eight-year-old Jenny Quantum – the spirit of the 21st Century – realises that something is cosmically wrong. She also realises what has to be done to fix it. Using her swiftly developing powers she unravels the mystery of her missing team-mates, how the pernicious plans of the mystery villain managed to defeat both heroes and governments and just why she is the only “person†who can deal with this particular crisis
On its own terms this is quite an engrossing adventure, full of the nihilism and ironic dark sparkle that typified the earlier tales, but if you look closely you can’t fail to see that under all that realistic language and powerful, cutting edge art are all the tired old clichés of the super-hero genre that this title initially rejected and often mocked. Has the nonsensical quest to invest grittily-grim-realism into what is inescapably ultimately high fantasy finally run out of reality to work with?
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