DriveThruFiction.com
Browse Categories
$ to $







Back
pixel_trans.gif
POW!erful Tales: First Team $1.50
Average Rating:3.0 / 5
Ratings Reviews Total
0 0
0 0
0 1
0 0
0 0
POW!erful Tales: First Team
Click to view
You must be logged in to rate this
pixel_trans.gif
POW!erful Tales: First Team
Publisher: Peryton Publishing
by Ken S. A. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/06/2012 11:27:17

I've always loved superheroes and comics, and even though I'm older than dirt, I still read them. Kinda wanted to be a comics writer, but I don't think I have the stamina for it. Writers have to come up with new and better stories all the time, and I only come up with stories a few times a year--maybe once, maybe twice, but the good stories seem pretty far apart.

First Team is a good story, but it's trivial. That's okay. Every story shouldn't be about saving the planet. Some of them should just be the everyday escapades of the characters. That's what this is. A buddy story, and a team-up story, and a fight story. It's the origin story of Captain Scrappy and the Mangod. It's amusing. Told mostly in conversation, the story moves right along. I enjoyed it.

So, why didn't it get a 5 star rating? Two things pulled the story down, imho. There were quite a few typos--as a guy who makes plenty of typos myself I can understand how they might slip through. Spell checkerswoundn't catch them. Secondly, I wanted more art. The one piece on the cover is flat, black and white that any non-artist could do. I'm sure glad this 20 page story was marked down from $15 million dollars to a buck and a half. And Peryton Press didn't bother to make a real book or even magazine out of it. No front and back cover. No title page. Even is my light reading, I'm old and crotchety enough that I like things to conform to the proper Forms. I thought this was a book, but it was only a short story. Small disappointment.

If you like superheroes with a bit of humor thrown in, you'll like Tom's story.



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
pixel_trans.gif
Displaying 1 to 1 (of 1 reviews) Result Pages:  1 
pixel_trans.gif
pixel_trans.gif Back pixel_trans.gif
0 items
 Gift Certificates