Irredeemable Special #1 – Advance Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Paul Azaceta (art, Story A), Matthew Wilson (colors, Story A), Emma Rios (art, Story B), Alfred Rockefeller (colors, Story B), Howard Chaykin (art, Story C), Andrew Dalhouse (colors, Story C), Ed Dukeshire (letters)

This Irredeemable special serves as an anthology, made up of three three short stories from the Irredeemable Universe. All three of the shorts are enjoyable, and for my money, the first story (“Hornet”) is the real winner here.  Anyone who has been reading Irredeemable since the beginning remembers that first scene of the title where Plutonian fries one of his hero buddies along with the hero’s wife and young child.  It was a graphic and memorable scene that set the tone.  “Hornet” adds some extra color to that scene and makes it even more terrible that Plutonian killed the guy and his family.  What I find impressive is that Waid clearly has a lot of story already planned because I doubt this is the sort of short story he could have whipped up on the fly.