(W) Joe Harris, Ethan Van Sciver
(A) Yildiray Cinar, Norm Rapmund
(CA) Ethan Van Sciver, Yildiray Cinar
• RONNIE and POZHAR face off against INDIA'S officially sanctioned FIRESTORM, RAKSHASA! • JASON RUSCH begins to develop strange new abilities related to the Firestorms' mysterious connection to the chaotic Quantum Field.
Date Available: 06/27/2012
BONUS REVIEW by Gary Owens
I have high hopes when different cultures are offered on covers of comic books, with the hope being that the writer has explored and researched something beyond our shores, and is willing to share that information. High hopes, yes, but too often, like here, they come crashing down. The sole purpose of having India with her own Firestorm, that I see, is just to make the readers aware that other countries have Nuclear people. Sure, they could have told us, but that breaks the "Show don't Tell" rule of story-telling, so they show instead, though the lady mutters just a few odd, unexplained words to knock us off kilter a little, and it's done. This was a straight-forward good guy/bad guy comic, and next issue promises a battle-royale with LOTS of talking in the middle of it (read the last panel, if you don't believe me). I like the exploration of Firestorm's powers, and whether others can get them, too (most long running superhero characters explore this idea at some point in their history), but I didn't like the cheat here. I guess my diversity search will continue.
