One-Star Squadron #1
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| Writer | Mark Russell |
| Artist | Steve Lieber |
| Cover Price | $3.99 |
Who you gonna call? One-Star Squadron! Meet DC's superhero team where heroism meets capitalism. This ragtag group of heroes led by Red Tornado is here to provide service with a smile. All you must do is send a request via their on-demand hero app and they'll answer any call. Whether it's a children's birthday party or an alien invasion, no job is too small or too big! Brought to you by Eisner nominee Mark Russell (The Flintstones, Wonder Twins, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles) and Eisner winner Steve Lieber (Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen), you'll want to invest early in this one-of-a-kind miniseries that promises a story filled wit more
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Comic Watch - Cody White
Dec 09, 2021From master satirist Mark Russell (@manruss), Eisner Award winning art team Steve Lieber (@steve_lieber) and Dave Stewart (@dragonmnky), and letterer Dave Sharpe (@daveLsharpe) comes an emotionally charged story about what happens to heroes after their moment has passed in One-Star Squadron #1 from #DCComics. Read Full Review
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COMICON - Olly MacNamee
Dec 09, 2021Even heroes have to pay the bills. And that's why some of them need to lower their expectations and work for Heroes4U. But below the satire in One Star Squadron #1 is a story that's more real world than many superhero comics. One part Office Space and another part your regular DC Comics. Read Full Review
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Comics Bookcase - Zack Quaintance
Dec 07, 2021Writer Mark Russell and artist Steve Lieber are a natural fit, and with One-Star Squadron #1 they put out a first issue that is deeply hilarious, whip smart, and just heartbreaking enough to set the stage for a great miniseries. Read Full Review
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Geek Dad - Ray Goldfield
Dec 07, 2021It's a new Mark Russell superhero satire, which means we're probably going to get some absurdity featuring D-listers and maybe something surprisingly profound along the way. This satire of the gig economy seems to have more on its mind than even Russell's usual fare, though, and it sends us into a slightly off-kilter world where B-list to Z-list heroes have started their own company. Read Full Review
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AIPT - Nathan Simmons
Dec 07, 2021Mixing sharp satire with genuine pathos, the debut issue of 'One-Star Squadron' offers sobering (and frequently funny) take on life after superhero stardom. Read Full Review
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The Comicbook Dispatch - Dispatchdcu
Dec 07, 2021ONE-STAR SQUADRON #1 has a ton of heart, compassion, realism, and loads of subtle humor. Read Full Review
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ComicBook.com - Chase Magnett
Dec 08, 2021That's what two of the most critically-acclaimed humorists in the medium, artist Steve Lieber and writer Mark Russell, aim to address in One-Star Squadron #1, and the debut suggests they'll succeed in delivering equal amounts of laughter and desperation in this black comedy. Read Full Review
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Monkeys Fighting Robots - Zac Owens
Dec 07, 2021DC Comics' ONE-STAR SQUADRON is hilarious and depressing all at once. This creative team has delivered a biting, moving, side-splitting series that asks "What happens to superheroes who are past their prime?" Read Full Review
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The Super Powered Fancast - Deron Generally
Dec 07, 2021Lieber does some great work with the art in the issue. There is an understated humanity to the way the characters are depicted. There arent any flashy, buff characters to be seen. The characters look like real people and that perfectly captures the spirit of the story. Read Full Review
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Henchman-4-Hire - Sean Ian Mills
Dec 11, 2021Funny, touching and well put-together, One-Star Squadron is off to a great start. Russell and Lieber seem to have been given cart blanche to engage in some dry office humor with a bunch of obscure comic book superheroes, which is exactly what I want from life. Read Full Review
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Bleeding Cool - Hannibal Tabu
Dec 26, 2021The result here is an uneven experience — humorous moments ("Are you in a flashback?") are too heavily interlaced with brow furrowing ones ("so we suffer alone") — but there is clearly something going on here. Time will tell whether it's something worth coming back to or something closer to Minute Man's customer rating on an app. Read Full Review
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5.0
Weird Science - Gabe Hernandez
Dec 07, 2021One-Star Squadron #1 re-imagines some of DC's most powerful superheroes as a collection of losers working at a superhero agency for hire. Unfortunately, while the creators were going for absurdist satire via extreme contrast between the heroes and their situation, the only thing extreme about this issue is how corny, unfunny, and tonally inconsistent it turned out. Read Full Review
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5.0
Major Spoilers - Matthew Peterson
Dec 13, 2021It's a superhero story that openly loathes superheroes, with art that is consistent and likeable, set in a world where everyone seems to be a different flavor of bastard. I don't expect that I'll be back next issue. Read Full Review
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Idk man, I laughed a lot reading this.
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Finally we have a comic in the spirit of Keith Giffem & J.M.. DeMatteis' hilarious Justice League run. I love it!
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Just loved this first issue, Mark Russell doing what he knows best, and the art is great. Really enjoyed how the characters were characterized, even with it's just hard to thinking in Power Girl or Red Tornado in this stiry at first. And very curious about Gangbuster.
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Great to see Russell back at DC
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As a first time reader of Mark Russell's & viewer of Steve Lieber's art, One-Star Squadron is the surprise hit of the month for me. Taking C, D & E list heroes into an environment where they're practically working paycheck to paycheck is BRILLIANT! They implemented the struggles of what one could say is a has-been & now has to take any job possible to either reclaim their fame or just survive. And thanks to this set up, we'll get to see how many of these characters cope with this realization & how it affects their family/relatives...mainly gangbuster & his wife. Really excited for issue 2 of this series.
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This issue was fun, the heroes business kinda makes sense, and the art was fantastic.
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A solid first issue. I think Mark Russell nails the humor here.
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I have read much, much worse from Russell, this wasn't that bad though I can say I'm not at all a fan of what he's selling here with Power Girl, that bit is just bad.
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Steve lieber art is great, but the writing as boring, I was expecting a funny/corny book like old JLI days, i hope it gets better in the next issues
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I really don't know what to think about this comic, the humor, I didn't find funny, other than Power Girl & Red Tornado, I have no idea who any of these characters are, not to mention how bad Russell writes Power Girl. This comic was odd and kind of boring, though the art was nice.
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feels like my parents wrote this
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