A review by the_graylien
The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men, Volume 1: God Particle by Gail Simone, Yildiray Cinar, Ethan Van Sciver
3.0
I've wanted to read up on Firestorm for a long time. I've always thought the hero was one of the coolest LOOKING characters out there. I'd read some issues from a prior volume a long time ago, but never really found a Firestorm story that knocked my socks off.
I had actually read the first issue of THIS volume somewhere along the way before and remembered liking it, but I didn't stick with it on a monthly basis.
Anyway...
Enter The New 52 Firestorm... The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men. For those of you who don't know, Firestorm in the past (from what little I know) required two humans to join together to make the hero. This time around two humans each have a bit of the power of the earlier Firestorm, but if they come together, they create a huge, terrifying monster called Fury. (It doesn't end there! There are other people who are "Firestorms" and if ANY two of them come together, a different monster results! That's a cool concept.)
This story didn't absolutely blow me away, but it does have plenty of enjoyable elements. It DID start to hook me enough at the end to make me want to read the next volume.
Yildiray Cinar and co's interior art didn't wow me, but it's not awful either. Some good looking moments. The covers by Ethan Van Sciver & Hi-Fi ROCK.
Check this one out if you wanna read up on some Firestorm, if you dig The New 52, or if, like me, you just think Firestorm looks awesome!
I had actually read the first issue of THIS volume somewhere along the way before and remembered liking it, but I didn't stick with it on a monthly basis.
Anyway...
Enter The New 52 Firestorm... The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men. For those of you who don't know, Firestorm in the past (from what little I know) required two humans to join together to make the hero. This time around two humans each have a bit of the power of the earlier Firestorm, but if they come together, they create a huge, terrifying monster called Fury. (It doesn't end there! There are other people who are "Firestorms" and if ANY two of them come together, a different monster results! That's a cool concept.)
This story didn't absolutely blow me away, but it does have plenty of enjoyable elements. It DID start to hook me enough at the end to make me want to read the next volume.
Yildiray Cinar and co's interior art didn't wow me, but it's not awful either. Some good looking moments. The covers by Ethan Van Sciver & Hi-Fi ROCK.
Check this one out if you wanna read up on some Firestorm, if you dig The New 52, or if, like me, you just think Firestorm looks awesome!