Diving head first into the thousands of back issues on our shelves, grabbing a random comic, writing what I think. Today’s issue:

Comic Book: C E Murphys Take A Chance #2 (4 in stock)

This is what I’ve been hoping for when starting this little feature: something I’ve never heard of that turns out to be pretty darn good! The setting is reasonably standard trope: non-super-powered vigilante fights crime in a universe where 8.1% of the population* has super powers. When story with a pretty common plot turns out to be a good read, that usually means the writing’s pretty good. In this case, the characters are well drawn (not talking about the art, though that’s also fine if not groundbreaking), the dialog is convincing, and the action moves along nicely. I’ll be tracking down the rest of these, looks like there’s 5 issues in total. Thumbs up!

• * I did the math, it’s actually slightly tricky! 25% of world population gets a virus, 1/3 die, 1/3 recover normally, and 1/3 get superpowers. So, 7.5% (0.3 * 0.25 = 0.075) of the original population is super. But… 7.5% died, so we’ve got a smaller population… 7.5 / (100.0 – 7.5) = 0.081