Reading Firestorm, I almost feel like… Gail Simone doesn’t like Firestorm. I mean, not really. It’s not a bad thing—the bad things about Firestorm are unrelated to it—but I was mildly excited, but then Simone and co-plotter Ethan Van Sciver flush everything distinctive about the original series. New York? Gone. Single dad? Gone.
It’s a teen boy book instead and Simone doesn’t shirk away from the racial stuff. I really did like how she’s dealing with it, how the charge of racism bothers one of the protagonists and so on.
Unfortunately, the thoughtfulness of that one social situation doesn’t carry over to the rest of the comic being any good. The plotting is lame—the whole Firestorm protocol thing is just stupid. Who knew Van Sciver and Simone secretly wanted to plot a bad cartoon?
But, Yildiray Cinar’s art is great superhero stuff.
Overall, it’s inoffensively bad.
CREDITS
God Particle; writers, Ethan Van Sciver and Gail Simone; artist, Yildiray Cinar; colorist, Steve Buccellato; letterer, Travis Lanham; editor, Rachel Gluckstern; publisher, DC Comics.
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