Outlawed (2020) #1 by Eve L. Ewing
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
“I really need to check out the rest of Outlawed but looking at eBay I’m not sure that’s going to happen as Outlawed #1 is selling for silly money (thanks, coronavirus), but maybe I’ll get lucky.” That’s what I said at the end of my review of Champions #1. So, did I get lucky? Well…sort of…I found someone selling the regular cover and the Tony Daniel wraparound variant cover on eBay in one lot, and it wasn’t too much..considering…
Anyway, what did I think of the book? I liked it, a lot, and now I have context for what was going on in Champions #1. Or…do I? Because my one complaint is that it really wasn’t clear what happened with Viv Vision, maybe that was deliberate. After all, the reason that everything went south so quickly is because so much was happening at once, the team weren’t properly communicating and, well, everyone got confused.
Also, while Jacinto’s art is good, it’s perhaps a tad too stylised at times for my taste…but that didn’t really spoil my enjoyment of the book.
Mostly, these are characters I like, and I just enjoy seeing them interact with each other and doing stuff. Although watching them get hurt isn’t great…
This is also clearly set up for the rest of the Outlawed event, which is fair enough. I’ll be reading Champions and Power Pack, so it’s good to have read this for context.
Also, Viv is very obviously not dead. Which is good.
Random Ramblings Of A Ragamuffin 