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Shadowland: Power Man by Mahmud Asrar, Fred Van Lente

matt4hire's review

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4.0

The first of the two (so far) Power Man miniseries is great. Victor's an interesting character, one who bucks a lot of the common stereotypes of young black heroes, something that makes him interesting and fleshed out. Great stuff.

blacksentai's review

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2.0

I liked it. Outside of the brief hint of sexism at the end of the first quarter of it I thought this was a very well done super hero origin book. Van Lente writes a good story here that takes place during an awful storyline. Fortunately you need to know nothing of Shadowland to enjoy this.
It was just made aware to me that on top of the bit of sexism thing at the front right in the middle there's homophobia as well. Great. Just awesome.

birdmanseven's review

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3.0

Spinning out of the Shadowland event we are introduced to Victor Alvarez, the new Power Man. I hadn't read Shadowland, but this worked just fine for me. I liked Victor and enjoyed the street level story. I'm looking forward to the new Iron Fist/Power Man series that follows.

I interviewed the characters co-creator, Fred van Lente, over on the All the Books Show. https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/off-the-books-interview-with-fred-van-lente
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