Super Secret Crisis War! Volume 1

author: Louise Simonson

name: Wayne

average rating: 2.91

book published: 2015

rating: 3

read at: 2015/02/11

date added: 2015/02/11

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

'Super Secret Crisis War! Volume 1' takes a bunch of Cartoon Network heroes and villains and pits them into a mega-war reminiscent of the ones done by Marvel and DC. Kind of.



When evil Abu creates a League of Extraordinary Villains, they formulate a plan to capture all the good guys, emulate their powers in robot form and take over the world (insert maniacal laugh). And just in case that doesn't work, they have an overly complicated machine to destroy each world the heroes come from, because in this comic each set of heroes and villains comes from a different planet (hence the Crisis on Infinite Earths nod). So, we have The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Dexter's Laboratory, Ben 10 and, strangely, Ed, Edd and Eddy all thrown together to save the world.



It's as crazy as it sounds. It's harmless enough, but over 140 pages, it's hard to see any distinct things happening except with the Ed group. Also, there are a lot of sprawling double panels, which would work great in print, but kind of stink in digital form because you have to keep scrolling back and forth on a page to read the panels sequentially. It's a minor gripe and I had a lot of fun reading it. Derek Charm's art is chaotic and epic and fits the story. Script by Louise Simonson has a throw it all at the wall and see what sticks feel, and I was hoping for a little more humor instead of all those fight scenes, but it's still great for kids and fans of these shows.



I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, IDW Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this fun graphic novel.





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