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Rob Williams' Writers Commentary on Project Superpowers #5

Rob Williams has a Writers Commentary for Project Superpowers #5, just published by Dynamite Entertainment. He writes,

Happy new year!

PG 1

So much of the drive of the narrative in this series is action-based, so the odd flashback to a character's past gives them a little depth. Here we see Imani as a child in Auburn and that she's hardwired to stand up to bullies. Always was and always will. She has an ingrained sense of right and wrong. She's smart and she has empathy. I like her hugely.

PG3

Cut to the possessed Death-Defying Devil, now risen to giant height, about to crush Imani in his hands. She's a threat to P:Andora's alien invasion. So she must be stopped. She's our MacGuffin here, in a way. The bad guys want her dead, the good guys want to save her.

PG4

Samson being blind but doing all these amazing things that require his aim to be PERFECT. That's the sort of fun only a god can get away with. They move in mysterious ways.

PG6

I was going for big broad beats with this story. Primary storytelling colors. So P:andora has to look and act evil, and he does. Sergio Davila makes him such an arrogant piece of work. You should want to see him get his comeuppance. A story's only as strong as the protagonist, etc.

PG7

Sacrifice. No regard for their own safety to serve the greater good. That's what we see from Masquerade here. She needs to be dropped — possibly to her death — to save The Spirit of the American Flag, and she urges Black Terror to do just that.

PGS 10 & 11

Samson picks up and uses a skyscraper like a baseball bat to hit and smash The Death-Defying Devil. He shouts 'Swing Batta' and believes it to be a basketball reference. Little things please little minds… But this is big widescreen fun superhero comics. Nicely lettered too by Simon Bowland.

PG12

And then, just when we think the good guys are winning, P:Andora comes down and enters the fray. "I find gods moribund. Killing them bores me." He's powerful. They're in the sh*t.

PG13

We get the reveal that the flag is really a dimensional portal. In a form 'Thematically relevant to this planet.'

PGS 14-15

More sacrifice. Black Terror's a street brawler really. He's no major powerhouse. But he flies into the fight with P:Andora, and P:andora just batters him.

PG 16

Masquerade frees the flag at the last second, and it comes to the rescue like the cavalry.

PG17

Imani is reunited with the flag and she has P:andora's Box. It was inside the flag all along. Surely the day will be saved…

PGS18-20

Nope. P;Andora uses the satellites around the planet we established in earlier issues to RIIIIP Manhattan out of the Earth and to rise it up into the heavens. Gravity fails. The heroes cannot stand. And he reaches out to take the box that will return to his heart and make him the most powerful bad guy in the universe.

One issue to go and all is lost…

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