Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #2

This comic really has all the ingredients for a fantastic new world of chaos. Fractured childhoods, teen superheroes who you truly hope fail miserably, revenge, humor, action, and a sock monkey used as a weapon. If you haven't dove into the world of Minor Threats yet, there is no time like the present. Read Full Review

Oswalt and Blum do such an incredible job of balancing all they're working with in Minor Threats. It's a high wire act that they consistently nail here. Read Full Review

Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #2 explores just what a superhero is willing to do for justice, or what a supervillain is willing to do for power, balancing character study with dark humor. It's what makes this book stand out from the pack, and keeps this writer coming back issue after issue. Read Full Review

Un Cómic Más / Dave DSG

May 01, 2024

Plot The new team of young heroes The Action want to prove themselves and find out who murdered The Insomniac, their search began with the attack on Brain Tease, then this unstable team made up of Bite Boy, Wart, Varsity, Dragona, Ms Moment and Undertow come across each other. With The Stickman, who has a clue as to who the killer was, he had a relationship with Snaketalker, who disappeared the same night Insomniac died. This clue makes everyone head to Frankie, because they know she's involved. Frankie/Playtime fears that the truth will come to light because her empire and the truce between criminals would be broken, so she is going to head directly into a trap by The Action, but her partner Scalpel tries to stop her, that sequence of both of them fighting It is epic and dynamic that will leave you breathless. The Action fails to attract Frankie, so they go after her mother Loretta Follis, Toy Queen. Exciting installment that continues to develop this complex plot where superheroes are analyzed from a hyper-real point of view, a mix of Godfellas with Chronicles. Art It has many textures and details that provide a 1980s comic book tone and aesthetic with touches of freshness. Achieve magnificent dynamic sequences of violence. Summary This story continues to mix mystery with mafias and a lot of extreme violence, where they analyze the world of supervillains with an unstable moral compass from a realistic point of view. more