Read the first 15 issues and it went from promising to why am I bothering to read this

>>153754670
Not really. I found it boring.

>>153754670
No

>>153754670
I thought it read like a poor man’s Invincible which in turn reads like a poor man’s Superman or Spider-Man. I really wanted to like it, I came to buy but I just couldn’t get into it

Starts slow, improves after the first arc
Rogue Sun better but make your own opinion
I'll say this about Higgins, he's good at promoting his stuff

I'm honestly kind of thinking the big grand reveal at the end of the next issue they keep hyping up is an Invincible crossover

>>153756782
I thought Rogue Sun was boring too.

>>153754670
It's a little slow paced at the start and the reveals are rather predictable if you're familiar with the genre it's drawing inspiration from while also feeling somewhat safe with its execution. It's not bad if you grew up with Power Rangers, or maybe you still like that stuff as an adult. It very much nostalgia baits readers though I'll give it points for also not trying to dumb things down for kids

>>153754670
No. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with the recent American cartoon scene but it seems completely incapable of producing a story that actually feels like tokusatsu (or mahou shoujo).

Family Force V? Trash. Radiant Black? Trash. Ultramega? Trash. The Power Rangers comics? Not the worst but still far from feeling like Toku.

You know what actually felt more like tokusatsu? Generator Rex. Ben 10. Powerpuff Girls. Sym-Bionic Titan. Megas XLR. The Firebreather made-for-TV animated movie/pilot. My Life as a Teenage Robot. The 2000s Batman series and the Jackie Chan animated series. Blue Beetle. Ghost Rider.

If your story doesn't really embrace "powers as a tool" then it isn't a toku hero story. This is what distinguishes Superman from Ultraman.

>>153761537
things that distinguish Japanese toku hero fiction:

>antagonists are usually invaders: SHOCKER represents industry attacking nature and the threat of foreign fascism planting roots in the country, various Godzilla and Ultraman threats are alien forces, many mahou shoujo antagonists are fantasy/space witches and wizards, etc
>superpowers under the framework of "universal accessibility" (Powers as Tools) and the stories conclude with the hero losing their powers
>extreme dissociation between the dual identities of the hero (the hero has abandoned their civilian life, rarely allows overlap between their personas, doesn't get discovered until the end of the story, or has a network of supportive allies who are aware)
>the hero and the villains borrow their powers from the same source
>Buddhist metaphysics and theology (befriending the antagonists, acceptance and integration of the Shadow ---> keeping the Dark Transformation, tearing out the roots of Selfishness-Evil, heroes as bodhisattvas - figurative healers, etc)