Bratpack #1

[history79]

"Rick Veitch thinks dirty, grotesque, and completely unfair thoughts about costumed crimefighters. He remembers Green Arrow's ward Speedy, and Wonder Woman's protégé Wonder Girl, Captain America's sidekick Bucky, and the 1940s Sandman's assistant Sandy the Golden Boy. He remembers them and the hundreds of others like them. Innocent kids out there swinging from tall buildings with their vigilante mentors so the kids reading would have someone to identify with, so the heroes could have someone to explain the plot to."

- Neil Gaiman




10.66 pages of 32

Comments

[silverhammerman]

Oh Brat Pack, such a sad, miserable, but imo, good, book. I'm curious which ending you'll post, since Veitch redid it for the collected version.

[steverequin]

I had to buy the TPB since I never got my hands on number 3. And I hated the way he changed it. I'll won't say more for now in order not to spoil, I'll wait for scans of issue 5.

[leahandillyana]

"Brat Pack" sounds like a group of teen villains.

[locuatico]

that's kinda the point. "brat pack" is the name people in the society has given to this world's teen sidekicks meant to be demeaning.
it's literally a bunch of adults calling them "brats"

[icon_uk]

Irony to one side, my inner geek reminds me It sort of is.

It was a name used to describe some kids who first showed up in the first Longshot mini back in 1989 or so, as a more or less direct homage to "The Little Rascals" movies.

They showed up again in a New Mutants Annual, after being given powers by Mojo and Spiral

[donnblake]

Fair enough, but in our world it was coined to refer to a bunch of young actors who were in a couple of teen movies together- the idea being to point out that they were all young, while playing off of the Rat Pack, (which now that you mention it, could also definitely be a pack of supervillains).

[steverequin]

Aaaah, yes! Before mainstream comics became edgy, comics like these really showed the dark side of superheroing. Nowadays, you'd name this "The Next 52."

[stubbleupdate]

I find it difficult to follow a conversation with two unseen actors when there is no distinction shown in the speech bubbles.

[icon_uk]

Even back then I could see what this story was trying to tell, and whilst acknowledging the technical skills involved, I found it so unsubtle and miserable a read that I had no interest in reading beyond the first or second issue.

That being said, "Doctor Blasphemy" is a brilliant name for a villain.

[junipepper]

Wow. Such subtlety.