Gushing on Comics
To anyone who hasn’t read Dynamo 5, please do so.
It’s a great little gem of an indie book about a team of five people who find out they are all the children of this one hero who slept around named Captain Dynamo and they’ve each inherited one of his powers: strength, flight, laser vision, telepathy and shape-shifting. Basically, instead of ONE hero with all these powers, it’s all of those powers spread across five different people who have to learn to get along, all while they are lead by Dynamo’s widow (the Lois Lane to Dynamo’s Superman, if you will). It’s a really fun read with pretty smart writing, snappy dialogue and interesting characters. Especially Scrap, the team’s super-strong member; she’s my favorite.
And I love the designs of the team costumes (even if Scrap’s costume is admittedly kinda typical of female superhero design). I’m not usually big on superhero teams with matching costumes, since I find it isn’t as visually interesting in my opinion, but D5′s costumes not only have a nice blue and red colour scheme, but they find a nice way to mix up the design of the costumes for each character; changing details based on their power set and playing around with the patterns on each so they aren’t all just wearing the same pattern....even if the design of the “5″ looks like they are advertising 5 Gum.
But yeah, if you can, go and pick up the first trade; it’s a good read and if you’re like me and on the look out for heroes outside of the big two publishers, you won’t be disappointed. I would love to one day get a Dynamo 5 movie someday, since honestly, more comic book movies could benefit from having more unique and ambitious premises than “let’s have these two guys fight” or “let’s fight THIS villain who hasn’t been adapted yet.”
