Trio - John Byrne [IDW]
A
new superhero team from John Byrne. Come for the art, stay for the...
art. This is old school, '60s era Fantastic Four, but in 2012. There's a
rock guy, a stretchy woman (who talks like that old chauvinist Stan Lee
wrote her dialogue) and a man whose arms turn to swords. They're named
One, Two, and Three, but the people call them Rock, Paper, and
Scissors. In the story, a proud fish-man with wings raises an enormous
leviathan to attack the city. Sound familiar? Then, a gigantic ship
arrives and Galactus a giant alien named Kosmos (!) comes to eat the planet's energy
steal its water. It's genuinely comical how slavishly derivative this
stuff is of the 1960s FF (there's even a bad guy in armor wearing a
green cloak, and he's also a Nazi skull-head). Dialogue is corny. Even
the sleazeball reporter talks like Stan Lee's histrionic narration
box. But man, can Byrne draw fishermen good. And I must say, point for
diversity in the cast. [2]
