Sunday Trade: Power Pack
Power Pack: Pack Attack, The Avengers/Power Pack Assemble!, Spider-Man/Power Pack: Big-city Super Heroes written by Marc Sumerak and illustrated by Gurihiru
The Powers kids, a team of four brothers and sisters given powers by a magic space pony. No really. Each kid was given one of the alien warrior monk's Fundamental Universal Forces powers so they could save their parents from a selfish race of reptilian scavengers. Oldest Alex (Zero-G) controls gravity, young teen Julie's (Lightspeed) have to deal with electromagnetism I think, shallow Jack (Mass Master) has control over his own mass & density and youngest Katie (Energizer) uses some kind of thermodynamics control to absorb and expel energy...
These three trades collect three of the recent Power Pack mini-series. I'd always dismissed the Pack as "a goofy little kids book". I mean magic, space pony? A bunch of little kid super-heroes? Bah! Humbug! And so forth. I mean sure, I like Alex when he popped up during the Nicieza New Warriors run, but that was about it...
Which means I probably missed out on some great stuff. Marvel may do a lot of things that annoy me, but publishing these Pack minis sure as hell wasn't one of them. The Pack teams up with WW2 vets to beat up Taskmaster! Kid Spider-Man! Guest appearances by Katie's "boyfried" Franklin Richards co-written by Franklin Richards: Son of Genius writer and artist Chris Eliopoulous. And thats not even mentioning the Power Pack/Hulk or Power Pack/Punisher minis...
So go, buy the Pack pocket books (they're cheap!) and see how awesome a "kids" book can be!