Danger Club #2 Review


In a world of heroes… there be no heroes here anymore, just the sidekicks!  That’s the premise of Danger Club, a comic that is about the second stringers in a superhero or villain team.

The official description from Image:

Yoshimi Onomoto returns to her homeland a fugitive as Danger Club leader Kid Vigilante and his arch-nemesis Ladybug confront their pasts in the Cave of Vengeance. Old wounds are opened again, and new mysteries arise as the world faces its imminent doom.

The tone and world presented here is bleak, depressing but ultimately intriguing as we get a world where its foundations have been shook to the core because of the loss of their superheroes.  The y’re all gone and dead but there’s still a threat that’s coming to Earth.  This situation forces characters you would normally ignore to become the heroes they were meant to be.

That’s the thing the script accomplishes here, it offers a compelling but nonetheless shallow narrative that still somehow manages to give the comic a true sense of history.  Landry Q. Walker borrows concepts and ideas that the average comic book reader is familiar with and just pretends like a decade or two of history has been laid upon those foundations.

Without any attempt to really talk about or disclose that history, we’re left with paper thin characters that have moments of depth.  The result is a world where the President could be an ex-superhero or Japan could have a police force full of mechs and yet still retain a sense of reality that makes the majority of this outlandish tale if not believable but fun and compelling.

The art in this issue is strong, Eric Jones does a wonderful job rendering the world and characters.  Everyone of these sidekicks has fluid actions that feel organic and the world (true to the narrative) looks rundown and bleak.  Though there are low moments where faces when unmasked look pretty terrible, it’s a minor gripe but when an emotional scene happens and the art is not up to the task it deflates any resonance contained therein.

Overall this was a fun issue, that’s worth checking out but there are some minor issues that should be addressed as the series moves forward.

3.5/5