Supercrooks #2 – Review

By: Mark Millar (writer), Leinil Yu (artist), Nacho Vigalondo (co-plotter), Gerry Alanguilan (inker), Clayton Cowles (letters) and Sunny Gho (colors)

The Story: The super-villains get the team together to pull a big heist.

Recap/Review (with minor SPOILERS): This comic is pretty entertaining while also a good example of how “there are no new stories.”  You could look at this comic and say, “Sheesh…it’s just a heist story with superpowers.  That’s been done a billion times before!”  Or…you could appreciate that the story is well-paced and the dialogue is pretty well written and that the pictures are pretty.  It isn’t a new story, but the execution is pretty good.

This is your basic “getting the team together” issue.  Continuing the story from issue #1, an old supervillain needs to repay a huge gambling debt and enlists his former proteges to help him out.   Obviously, it wouldn’t be a very fun story if the heist to repay the debt was a 2-man job, so our central characters have to round up a bunch of other villains.  The other villains they round up fill some of the standard slots: weather control, regeneration, etc.  All of this is pretty standard stuff and it’s easy to see the movie pitch that this could lead to (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing).