A universe trembles

[superboyprime]

For Free Comic Book Day, Boom! Studios has released a prologue to Abnett and Lanning (and main artist Brad Walker)'s upcoming series The Hypernaturals.

"It is the far future; the human race has finally colonized the galaxy, preserving an era of prosperity that's only possible because of The Hypernaturals. They're a celebrated, galaxy-wide superhero task force that keeps the peace. That is, until they all mysteriously vanish. Now, as the galaxy teeters on the brink of chaos, it's up to a group of retired and long forgotten Hypernaturals - and their novice recruits - to save the galaxy from complete destruction."

Comments

[icon_uk]

I'm never really comfortable once they start talking about "galaxy wide", since the distances involved in that are brain numbing* that any individual group of people ebing alive long enough to be known seems improbable,

* The Milky Way being about 100,000 LIGHT YEARS in diameter. (Or so Monty Python tells me)

[donnblake]

It depends on communications speed- assuming essentially instant communication speed, it's just a matter of one group acting on a large enough scale that the entire galaxy* (taken here to mean all members of whatever galactic community there is, which may or may not wind up excluding a number of preinterstellar races, depending on said galactic community's ) hears about it.