Mighty Love

Rating:
Summary: Chapter 1
Review: I'm a fan of Chaykin's graphic style, and this is an interesting idea: combining superhero comics with a dual-identity romance (an plotline used many times before.)

As a superhero comic, it's a little uninspired. Neither the villains, nor their counterfeiting scheme, are compelling. Chaykin himself admits he cribbed their scheme from some old move. Why not something that directly endangers the people of the city these heroes protect?

The two heroes aren't noteworthy either. You have to have some pretty deep psychosexual weirdness to put on a costume and go out every night and fight people, but the encounter between them reads more like people who meet over coffee. These are highly aggressive thrill junkies bent on forcing the world to meet their expectations. They're not going to be sexually coy with one another.

Also, just a pet peeve: The female crimefighter wears a fishnet mask over her mouth, yet she apparently eats without taking it off. Maybe she can put french fries through the holes one at a time, but a burger?

There's also no good reason that this was sold as hardcover, which just tacks a few more dollars onto the price.

Mighty Love could work if this is only chapter one of the relationship between the two heroes, and the later installments have them in conflict. If they become enemies, that's when we'll see some real sparks.