A review by squidbag
They're Not Like Us, Vol. 1: Black Holes for the Young by Eric Stephenson

4.0

Another entry into the "Would people with powers really choose to be heroes?" sub-genre of comics, but a particularly good and interesting one, and a little more realistic than some. The first three-quarters of this are essentially a philosophical examination of human beings' capacity for good and evil without resorting to blacks and whites, which I found refreshing after having not really intellectually stimulated myself in a couple of GNs and a J-FIC. The last bit is kind of a justification for balancing towards "bad" as a rephrase of the Law of the Jungle, but it falls flat, and you're kind of glad to see it go before the book sets itself up to be far more interesting than a cloistered little group of picked on people with powers. I'm very interested to read more of this.