One-Star Squadron #1

From 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

Even 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

Writer 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

It'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

Mixing 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

ONE-STAR SQUADRON #1 has a ton of heart, compassion, realism, and loads of subtle humor. Read Full Review

That'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

DC 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

Lieber 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

Funny, 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

The 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

One-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

It'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

DiegoLDUganda

Dec 07, 2021

Idk man, I laughed a lot reading this.

Existentialman

Dec 11, 2021

Finally we have a comic in the spirit of Keith Giffem & J.M.. DeMatteis' hilarious Justice League run. I love it!

Danilo Silva

Jan 05, 2022

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.

cumgurglinrhino

Dec 07, 2021

Great to see Russell back at DC

BigCliff

Dec 14, 2021

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.

davepete

Dec 07, 2021

This issue was fun, the heroes business kinda makes sense, and the art was fantastic.

Psycamorean

Jan 25, 2022

A solid first issue. I think Mark Russell nails the humor here.

Merlyn

Dec 07, 2021

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.

Stormwrath

Dec 07, 2021

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

Zazikarion

Dec 12, 2021

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.

pizzamain

Jan 29, 2022

feels like my parents wrote this