Author: Dan Wilson and Brian Alan Smith
Created:
Updated: no later than 1998
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Cover, Issue #53, by Bret Blevins, Copyright 1989, Marvel Entertainment
Group.
53: Chinks in the Armor! Written by Terry Austin. Penciled by Ernie Colon. Inked by Joe Rosen.
The "Acts of Vengeance" storyline, putting villains into new
books, brings "Daredevil"'s Typhoid Mary and "Fantastic Four"'s
Dr. Doom into the Power Pack fold. Kind of a strange issue, especially for
the romance-like relationship between 13-year old Alex, and Mary, who's
at least in her twenties. Typhoid Mary battled the team and lost, then tells
a version of the story to Doom, in which she wins. Doom only wants the secrets
of Kymellian technology, but instead, Mary and her low-level psychic abilities
manipulate Doom into giving a psychological insight into himself. So now,
Mary sees Doom's "chinks" in the armor that is his soul. It is
a Doom/Typhoid Mary story with Power Pack tacked on.
Rating: Two and 1/2 stars
54: "Dino-Might!" or "Boys and their Toys!"
Written by Judy Bogdanove. Penciled by Jon Bogdanove. Inked by Hilary Barta.
The final go-round for Bogdanove, and he brings his wife in to help wrap
things up. Reed and Sue Richards take Jack and Franklin to see a robotic
dinosaur display at a mall, and the two young heroes wind up fighting the
Mad Thinker instead. The Thinker decides that his best chance at getting
rich, quick, comes from robbing a mall, and he tries (unsuccessfully, of
course) here. Ignore the fact that Bogdanove forgot to put the correct symbol
on Jack's chest, and enjoy all the artistic references to Bogdanove's friends
and family. It's not worth the purchase price of the book, but there's also
a nice cameo with Calvin, Hobbes, and the parents, who actually get a word
in edgewise ("Sigh...all these wonderful models, and HE still has to
do his usual shtick!")
Rating: Three stars
55: Mysterio! Written by Dwayne McDuffie. Penciled by Steve Buccellato.
Inked by Dan Spiegle.
My first complaint: Julie, who makes a big deal of telling Katie to call
herself "Starstreak" when she gets the acceleration power, saying
"That's what I wish I had called myself!", is now Lightspeed again.
(Though this comes and goes.) Secondly, while I appreciate the effort to
make this issue an homage to Scooby
Doo, the interest of Mysterio in scaring everyone out of the Powers'
apartment building is never explained. Alex even says that himself at the
end, wondering whether Mysterio's interest in the building would bring him
back. Well, it won't, and that "ominous" ending only becomes silly
in retrospect. An unnecessary issue.
Rating: One star
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