Zahler's art in Love And Capes is well-suited to the material: heavily outlined with thick brush strokes, cartoonishly retro in its look. If all the single women share the same humongous eyes and basic body type (so much so that when Abby frets over her meeting with Amazonia, we can't really see what she's stressing over), it's a small plaint. Gotta admit I chuckled over Abby's first meeting with the Parents, wherein Ma Spencer notes, "I like her Mark. She's not all skinny like that Amazonia girl." Abby's "Gee, thanks" response is humorously carried by the art – and those big big expressive eyes.
As for the boy/girl aspect of this series, well, let's just state that if you were ever enchanted by the Christopher Reeve/Margot Kidder flying scene in Superman: The Movie, then this is the book for you. If, like this romantically-challenged reader, you couldn't get past how damn stupid the song in that sequence was, you still may key into the jokes without fully accepting the scenes where the Crusader sweeps his girlfriend off her feet.
Still, Abby & Mark’s romance proves ultimately more believable than the one 'tween comic book Superman and Lois Lane – if only because that second has so many decades of passive aggressive pranks at Lois' expense in its history. Just coz you can change the course of mighty rivers, doesn't mean you can be a dick with impunity . . .
Note: Issue four of Zahler's mini-series is reportedly being prepared as a freebie to be distributed during this year’s May Free Comic Book Day – cagey Zahler has even included a front cover riff on the upcoming Spider-Man 3 movie – so if you're at all curious about this series, that may be the time to take a peak, provided your local comic shop has the wherewithal to go beyond the major publishers plus the smarts to stock up on a few back issues of issues #1-3.
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1 - Hguf
These are some of the stupidest things I've ever seen