The Power Fantasy #14

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• 10

  KPB Comics - Joseph Pines

  Dec 19, 2025

  If you aren't reading The Power Fantasy, you're missing out. The writing presents a new take on an X-Men-like superhero family and amps up the personal drama and human side to 10. Read Full Review

• 10

  COMICON - Olly MacNamee

  Dec 22, 2025

  ‘The Power Fantasy’ #14 is a slow-burning issue. Scene after scene, the reader can sense the tension amongst the various characters mount and build. Without a single punch being thrown. A cerebral superhero series from Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard and Image Comics. Read Full Review

• 9.6

  You Don't Read Comics - Russ Bickerstaff

  Dec 17, 2025

  The title of the series continues to make clever reference to the stuffy, old criticism of superhero fiction: that its all escapist male power fantasy. I remember thinking about how bizarre that was as a kid. I grew-up on Marvel comics in the 1980s. These people DO have great power, but they are suffering like you would NOT believe. With The Power Fantasy, Gillen takes that danger of power dynamic to the absolute extreme with gods who are born as humans who are reacting to everything the way that Earthbound gods WOULD. Its horror. Above all its horror. And thats something that begins to feel all the more overwhelming with every issue. Read Full Review

• 9.0

  AIPT - Joe Jones

  Dec 17, 2025

  Each issue of The Power Fantasy feels like we are gradually approaching an apocalypse of sorts that has been foretold to us from the start, and The Power Fantasy #14 in particular feels like we are two minutes away from midnight on the Doomsday Clock. Time is running out and the Atomics are veering precariously to the precipice of all-out conflict that will have deadly ramifications for the Superpowers and those humans who are unfortunate enough to be caught in the fallout. Read Full Review

• 9.0

  Comic Book Clique - Sawyer Peek

  Dec 23, 2025

  A tense, reflective, and unsettling chapter that pushes the series closer to its long-promised reckoning without sacrificing its moral complexity or emotional weight. Read Full Review

• 8.1

  Graphic Policy - Logan Dalton

  Dec 21, 2025

  Wijingaard switches up his art style for her empty visions with swatches of red and black that are like a ticking time bomb. Another wild card is Masumi, who at least has her to fall back on, and Caspar Wijingaard does beautiful work on her frightening, abstract painting while using a more traditional style and grid format for her interactions with the real world. Read Full Review