Champions - Eve Ewing
- Outlawed - Containing Outlawed #1 and Champions (2020) #1-5. This Champions team starts out perforce in media res, so I'm not really sure who some of the characters are. I dislike needless exposition, but some brief introductions might have been nice. Anyway, this story starts with yet another terrible tragedy involving young superheroes, this time the Cole tragedy, in which a mission to protect a young environmental activist goes awry. A fiery dragon (from the War of the Realms?) attacks,a nd Viv Vision gets frustrated and enraged at their inability to stop it and goes berserk, so must be stopped, at which point there's a big explosion. Viv's gone, and before you know it, it's the Superhero Registration Act again only this time aimed at minor superheroes (it has the rather funny acronym CRADLE) , some of whom are locked up in reeducation camps. The Champions go on the run, but someone seems to be giving away their location. With an even more assured and vibrant progressive voice than in Waid's mighty fine run, this is a well-told, if rather unoriginal, story; Ewing gives her characters on both sides a wide range of feelings and points, and argues both sides competently. It's a natural continuation of Waid's intent, but I would have preferred some more of the fun side as well. [3.5]
