By: Justin Jordan (story), Ron Frenz (breakdowns), Jesús Merino (pencils), Marlo Alquiza, Drew Geraci, José Marzan Jr. (inks), Nathan Eyring (colors)
The Story: Everyone takes a fall sometimes, but only a few do it from five miles up.
The Review: Ever since T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents and Blackhawks got canned, I haven’t felt a DC title that projected the same kind of panache Nick Spencer and Mike Costa brought to their respective series, a quality you might describe as “smart.” Unlike Scott Snyder’s literary intelligence and Grant Morrison’s conceptual genius, Spencer and Costa had a knack for plots and characters that can confront the mechanics of the real world and deal with them practically.
Jordan has a similar talent, and Team Seven certainly feels like the spiritual successor to both those titles. Set in a world with a nascent superhuman population, the story plays into every conspiracy theory you’ve ever had about big government. Lynch lays out the team’s mission with a motivation so nationalistic and ruthless that it can only be credible:
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