Radiant Black

by Kyle Higgins, Cherish Chen, Marcelo Costa, David Lafuente

Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels
Pages: 192
Series: Radiant Black #1
Rating:

Synopsis:

Visionary writer KYLE HIGGINS (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Ultraman) and artist MARCELO COSTA reinvent super heroes for a new generation! Nathan Burnett has just turned 30, and things aren’t great—he’s working (and failing) at two jobs, his credit card debt is piling up, and his only move…is moving back home with his parents.
But when Nathan discovers the ethereal, cosmic RADIANT, he's given the power to radically change his fortunes...unless the Cosmic Beings who created them succeed in taking them back by any means necessary. Oh, and did we mention there's a RED RADIANT who wants Nathan dead? The next must-read comic book series STARTS HERE.
Collects RADIANT BLACK #1-6

The first volume of Radiant Black (Kyle Higgins et al) offers a fairly unsurprising superhero origin story: dead-end guy ends up back with his parents, stumbles into something that gives him powers, and quickly discovers it’s linked to aliens and he needs to save the world.

Where it varies a bit is in giving us a few pages of the story the guy (Nathan) is trying to write, which I found interesting… and the fact that the hero switches partway through the story, as Nathan ends up in a coma.

The setup is fairly meh, as far as it goes, and I definitely wasn’t motivated enough to try to “translate” the alien symbols or anything, but I am kinda curious about the switch between Nathan and Marshall works out, whether Nathan still ends up with powers, etc. I’m not that motivated to read the next volume, but… maybe?

As for the red Radiant, nice motive, still theft, bodily harm and a minimum of manslaughter.

Rating: 2/5 (“it was okay”)