Something allows a unique message from beyond to cast an individual spell. We see a bruiser with a punch to pack learn which side his bread is really buttered. So the young couple in the first story are dealing with heading off and leaving home for the horizon for the first time. This collection of a round dozen self-contained novellas pack their punch by withdrawing from the genre formulae and showing us powered young Americans in their everyday settings. It's often been said that superhero comics are metaphors – Superman for the messiah complex, the X-men variably for either racism or the violent troubles and pubertal changes of teens, and so on. Not every family patches itself back together over a funeral in the fashion the third story gives us. It's not every young disaffected teenager that runs through empty landscapes because she is too scared to speak to anyone – for quite the reasons we see here. It's not every young disaffected teenager that will respond to the withdrawal of her medication so explosively. The simple way it gets so much depth from putting the usual with the unusual is most charming. Summary: A lovely collection of twelve stories of teenage life affected by unusual powers.
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