Firestorm #28

Writer: Stuart Moore
Penciller: Jamal Igle
Inker: Keith Champagne
Letterer: Travis Lanham

Jason Rusch and Professor Stein are reunited once more as the hero called Firestorm. After battling a particularly slippery foe, Jason receives an unwelcome visitor from his past. Meanwhile, a mysterious and shadowy figure is plotting the destruction of Firestorm and his allies.

Under the direction of Stuart Moore and Jamal Igle, Firestorm seems to be as solid a superhero comic as you’ll find on shelves. It’s accessible, it’s got action, it’s got drama, it’s got an interesting cast and the art is pretty damn good. But still I don’t find myself wanting to read the book on a regular basis. Maybe it’s just that I’m becoming less interested with superhero books in general, especially when they don’t have anything particularly new to say. And the character himself never held much appeal for me in the first place.

It’s certainly not a bad book by any stretch. Fans of the character are probably overjoyed at how good this book has become. And if you’re just interested in good, solid superhero stories then you’ll probably get a kick out of it too. It may not be for me, but that doesn’t mean others won’t thoroughly enjoy it.

And there is the fact that DC has been dropping hints for a little while that events in the current Firestorm storyline will eventually branch out to affect the entire DC Universe. Could the next big DC Comics crossover be building up right here? You might just want to check it out and see.
 

Special thanks go out to Jeremy Shorr, owner of Titan Comics for allowing us to use his advance preview books for review purposes.

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