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Supergod #1 is a fun smorgboard of post-apocalyptic goodness
Published by Avatar last year I heard little to jack freaking squat about this title and honestly, I don’t know why.
The story starts off with a scientist of some sort speaking into a digital recorder to somebody named Tommy. In the first page the scientist muses over humanity and it’s relationship with religion. “The whole of religious history is about us trying to build amazing creatures that will save the world”
“So that worked out all right then”
From this hint of a apocalyptic world a backstory is told of the beginnings of the superhuman. You are shown the first superhuman created via a secret space program funded by the British which inadvertently transformed three astronauts into a giant fungus entity, ANNNNND it pretty much just keeps getting crazier from that point. (Note: Scientists end up loving the entity a little TOO much).
None of these superhuman origin stories seems to be finished off finitely in the first issue though and with the brief appearance of the first American superhuman you get the feeling that all of these superhumans will eventually cross paths with one another.
This first issue is good and to be frank I am not surprised. A general rule I have learned when it comes to Warren Ellis and his writing is that 99.9 % of the time, the first issue Ellis writes of anything is pure awesome. I guess the key to this series is, will it be Transmetropolitan where every issue kicks ass or will Supergod turn into another Iron Man, where the story starts strong but ultimately tapers off in quality. With Gastonny’s penciling keeping good pace with Ellis’ storytelling and the fact that this series is only a 5 issue mini, I’d say the next couple of issues will be interesting in the least.
