"...this is clearly a young Superman book with a twist."
Do you like Superman? Wish he was in high school, easily readable by all ages, and had a good message about watching what you eat? The welcome to Power Lunch, the new (hopefully ongoing) series by J. Torres and Dean Trippe; a delightfully creative and earnest graphic novel that should be given out in lunch rooms along with every well balanced meal.
The book kicks off with a kid named Joey heading to school, and finding out from the OLD weird kid – Jerome – that he, Joey is the NEW weird kid at the school. This gets backed up pretty nicely by the fact that Joey only eats white food, and claims to have superpowers… A Fact he ends up backing up a little bit later.
Okay, spoiler time, because there’s no way to talk about the book without mentioning the central conceit: whenever Joey eats colored foods, he gets a different power. For trail mix, super speed. For bubble gum, super jumping. You get the idea.
Over the course of the tightly written book, Joey and Jerome deal with a bully named Bug, learn how to be friends, and explore Joey’s powers. That’s pretty much it! Except at the same time, the simplicity belies a complex amount of thought that’s gone into each brightly rendered panel. Read More...
