Written by Max Bemis
Art by Nathan Stockman
Published by Valiant Comics
Well, that clinches it.
Henry Sauvage, older brother and manager of our erstwhile pop-star hero Kevin “Savage” Sauvage, is a whiny little snit.
Last issue’s cliffhanger revealed that Henry was working with Professor Nealon and his Project Bizarre, who plan to vivisect Kevin in order to fully dissolve the barrier between Earth and the Faraway dimension. Y’know, for world domination, and maybe some dino-infused superpowers.
Solid, mad-scientist supervillain stuff.
Henry’s not doing this out of sheer greed for a slice of the new world order, we find out. He has envied his brother and resented his family ever since Kevin was born and took up all the attention of his soccer-star father.
Kevin “crawled early, walked early, and then scored his first goal before he could talk,” while Henry was “the son who smelled of pennies … the athletic failure … the brony.”
Henry doesn’t say that his family looked down on him or mistreated him in any way, not even for the My Little Pony fandom. But he sure as hell comes off as an off-putting, self-centered dimwit with delusions of genius.
Why not be content with what he had? In our actual world, he could have become a toxic techbro shitposting on Twitter. C’mon, man, you could have had it all!
Lucky for the world, Savage leaves his self-imposed exile to go kick more dino butt.
And that’s good for the world, because these dinos can talk (in their own language, not English) and have opposable thumbs to hold laser guns and other weapons.
It’s even better when Mae, our tech genius, arrives and joins forces with Savage.
Stargates must be destroyed, villains get supersuits, comeuppances and horrific transformations are afoot for potential sequels. Standard superhero stuff.
But Max Bemis injects it all with a self-aware, punkish energy. And Nathan Stockman draws the dino carnage-laden action sequences with such panache that even when some bits of the plot don’t get time to breathe and deepen, this story still goes down smooth.
