3 out of 5

Pretty straight-forward stuff, told with a bit too much focus on setting up subplots to really drive much interest in a main plot; a classic case of told, not shown.

A dude wakes up in the rubble of the Statue of Liberty, a bit befuddled, and we come to learn that he’s a danged super-villain.  Befuddling us, even though plenty of people seem to spot said villain, the next page gives us news reports that he’s… dead.  Thus kicks off writer Bobby Torres’ habit of switching scenes every other page, generally before we have enough context to understand how our given page relates to the main story or to the other scenes.  But after a few bouncing arounds, we get the gist: a family of superheroes; a cop; cop’s daughter; all interconnected, and our (as it turns out) amensiac villain – he’s… Oblivious! – wanders into cop’s daughter’s clothing store and she takes him under her caring wing.

An acceptable premise, with a professional visual sheen from artist Rowel Roque and colorist Ronson Edulan, who team up to create well-crafted senses of space and conversational timing, to which Torres offers a nice ear for naturalistic dialogue.  However, we’re otherwise given zippo context on things, and the story is a bit too busy trying to put pieces into place for a fully grabbing #1 issue.