Hell Yeah! Volume 1: Last Day on Earths by Joe KeatingeMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Ben Day has super powers. Unfortunately, his super powers aren't that great, and he lives in a world where having super powers doesn't really make you that special. Extra unfortunately, someone is cruising through the multiverse killing all of the other Ben Days. Soon, he finds himself stuck in the middle of a conflict he doesn't understand as various people from across the multiverse converge on his reality.
The basic premise-a kid living in a world where superheroes have only been on the scene for generation discovers that everything isn't quite what it seems-seems solid enough, but hte execution here is a little lacking. Slacker Ben seems to take too much in stride, and doesn't really seem to be particularly phased by the weirdness erupting around him. More significantly, the central mystery-who is killing all the other Bens, and why?-remains mostly unsolved by the end. While we do discover the "who", the "why" component is completely untouched. Worst of all, the final few pages make everything that came before them meaningless. It felt like there was supposed to be at least another 10 or 20 pages of material that somehow got left out.
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