Not really a “comic” comic, it’s an Original Graphic Novel or OGN.
FTA:
“just recently, DC announced it was serializing the original 2020 Primer OGN in classic comic book issues beginning in March 2024, with the release scheduled to finish off just in time for the sequel, Primer: Clashing Colors, in summer 2024.”
Just sat down with it, pretty clearly a kids/tweens book.
Gag is a girl in foster care gets taken in by a couple, dad is a college professor/artist, mom has multiple phds and works in a lab.
Lab has developed a “warpaint” in 33 different colors that bestow super powers. Mom decided she didn’t want such a thing in the hands of the military industrial complex and brought it home… where it gets into the hands of the kid who naturally uses them to become a super-hero.
Art style is cute and expected for the target age. It’s split into 4 parts so when the individual comics come out, expect it to be a 4-parter before the ongoing starts later.
Isn’t marvel and DC comics basically for kids anyways? They never actually hurt the criminals in the way they a person with super powers would…
See invincible for adult comic style if your curious.
So I guess deadpool and wolverine don’t count
Not really but it was getting close. Someone with blades embedded in their knuckles wouldn’t really go easy on bad guys like he does. Limbs would be missing
You must not have looked at DC much recently, they have pivoted into a lot of grimdark storyline with Hamlet like death counts and gruesome styling. I’m not a fan, I have DC Universe Infinate mainly to access the Vertigo back catalog much of which does the ideas they are trying better without coming off as pandering to the edgelords.
Hopefully the success of Primer will lighten things up around there.
I really haven’t, no. Am I missing out?
Not really
Well, there are degrees of “for kids”. :)
Primer is maybe overly simplistic in writing and vocabulary, but it’s fine for the audience.
Marvel and DC both have books that can skew younger or older depending on the book.
