Heroes At Large! #1

[history79]

"A team of government-sponsored heroes is frozen in the 1940s, only to be thawed out in the present. No super powers, no amazing gadgets, and a complete lack of self-awareness fuel this motley crew of politically incorrect heroes at large!"

- Antarctic Press

Comments

[mazway_75]

The jokes are a bit obvious but it's the charm that pulls you into it.

Plus, the black guy choosing "White Hood" while ranting about some 1940s characters is a clever touch.

[kamino_neko]

I thought that was one of the bits that landed worst, myself.

It doesn't make any internal sense - why would any American, especially an African American, be unaware of the implications of 'the White Hood'? Why would Black Cobra, who comes from the time when the Klan was at its height, think it was a good idea to 'offer' to take that name from the black guy he works for (assuming he's not a racist trying to make a power play)?

It's just a mess with so many implications beyond the 'black superheroes have "Black" in their names' thing it seems to be trying to comment on.

[mastermahan]

I swear, I can hear the canned laughter.

[alicemacher]

I chuckled at Captain Jet's reaction to prostitution still being illegal outside of Nevada.

[remial]

running into Team Shoot to Kill would me surrender if I were a bad guy...

[beyondthefringe]

This was... pretty bad.
It wasn't all that funny, and it really felt mean-spirited a lot of the time.
Just... yikes.

[strejdaking]

I know, nobody cares, but I don't get why comics that use Cat-Man and Kitten always age her up to be his age, even Hero Killers, which was specifically about sidekicks. You would think the one reason you would want to use them is precisely that they were like the only superhero/kid sidekick duo, where the sidekick was a girl.

[lordultimus]

Judging by these scans, so they can have her make sex jokes.