Independent Propaganda

Reviewed by Matt Butcher / Writer for Independent Propaganda

It’s a world completely different from anything comics have provided us. It is a world of reverse discrimination. It is a world where mutants and aliens are the ordinary society and what was once human are now hunted as norms.This fantastic new comic book promises to show the genre from a different angle.

Self-publishing through a company called Jam Packed Productions is a new comic world called THE SUPER NATURALS. Writer and creator Toney Tapia leads the reader into an action-packed opening where a norm, a teenage boy who has been living in the basement of his mutant parents, is hunted and taken into custody simply because of what he is. It is already an interesting spin on the worlds created by Marvel, with its anti-mutant fervor, and DC, with its anti-metahuman bias. We all know these worlds well. Marvel introduced us to a possibility last year with its HOUSE OF M describing what would happen if Magneto really succeeded in taking over the earth for the benefit of mutantkind. This series will apparently start from a novel idea though. What if mutants ruled our world instead of humans? Would mutants get rid of the lesser human species?

All these questions are just set ups as the first issue simply throws us into the new world. The norm gets taken into custody and is being imprisoned with other norms. Where this leads is anybodys guess.

The artwork in this book is simply phenomenal. The artists is Jamie Biggs and his work looks like Todd McFarlane in his glory days and Erik Larsen on a great day. The art goes really well with the subject matter and the monsters and mutants he has to draw for the series. However, as good as the fit is for the art to the subject of the book, this is an artist that people will be collecting simply because his name is on the book. The art is seriously that good. Jamie Biggs did the art on this comic? Who cares what it is about then!

The symbiosis though of this book with artist and writer is extremely well done. After only one issue, I know that I am hooked. Now I just need to figure out how to order this on a regular basis. Get hooked on this now.

About The Reviewer: Matt Butcher lives in Nome, Alaska. He is currently in a state of shock because the new Superman movie does not come to Nome until two weeks after the scheduled release date. Grumble grumble.

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