Power Pack #63 Storytime

Power Pack is BACK! ... sort of.

Time for Katie Power to recount an untold tale of the Power Pack. Stick it out to the end for a surprise cameo appearance by a couple beloved Marvel characters.

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Reed and Sue!

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It's likely because I have never read Power Pack before but I found this a very confusing read.

This was comfy, fuck Marvel for making this a one-shot

Katie was retelling a Power Pack adventure as part of a creative writing assignment, but she neutered it which led to a worse story. The teacher tells her to just go crazy with it, so Katie tells the actual story of how it happened. Since the teacher thinks it's fictional, you see how she's interpreting what Katie's saying at various points on the left side while Katie's thoughts show how the truth on the right side.

The reason that particular story was picked is to show how much she misses Alex, who was the anchor for Power Pack. After Secret Wars, he "disappeared" like Reed and Sue and is presumed dead by most of the superhuman community. With Alex "dead," the rest of Power Pack has drifted apart. Julie went off to college and Jack is in high school. She misses how close they were back in the Power Pack days and she especially misses Alex who may or may not be dead from her perspective.

Though the last page shows the truth of it, in that he's exploring the multiverse with Reed and Sue. That page is particularly notable because it's the FIRST appearance of Reed and Sue (and Alex, for that matter) since Secret Wars ended.

I was a bit worried but this fits in really well to my old Power Pack I remember.

Is it bad i really really want to do it....I just did it. I wrote and said I wanted a Power Pack series.

Nothing wrong with that. Power Pack is great.

Alex get out of the multiverse and go home to hug your sister right now young man.

No shit. I'm kind of disappointed with him not having a way to phone home. But it does seem to show she knows he is out there doing stuff, unlike Ben and Johnny who think Reed and Sue are dead?

So what you're saying is without the context of several books this is difficult to understand.

Nah, they're all kinda in the same position. The rest of the superhero community thinks the Future Foundation/Reed/Sue/etc. are all dead. Johnny and Ben feel it in their hearts that there's no way that's the case and they must still be alive somewhere out there. Same thing with Power Pack. They were told that Alex died, but they refuse to believe it and are just "waiting for him and Franklin to return." They know he's still out there because they feel it in their hearts, but they have no actual proof. Same with Ben and Johnny for Reed and Sue.

You could argue that this is either because they just refuse to give up hope or because Reed used his powers to instill that feeling into them.

>Devin Greyson

There's a name I haven't seen in a while. What's she been doing lately, besides this?

Eh, I think the recap page covers pretty much everything you would need to know: , but sure, knowing about the current status of Power Pack and some of their past history would at least put all this stuff in context.

It's #63 and not #1, afterall.

Desperately trying to convince people that she didn't create a self-insert OC to rape Dick Grayson?

Besides that, of course.

That's her IRL version of Hank Pym slapping Janet. For everything else she's accomplished, she'll never be able to live that one bit down.

From the thumbnail it look like they were fighting the clown from Spawn.

Reminder that everyone should go buy this

bup

>life is realer than fiction

awww
that was a very sweet story, gave me the feels
cool shang chi next week

If it sells well and has good reviews then marvel will consider doing more with it, most likely

But it won't sell well

A Doctor Strange novel.

Are Katie and Jack now older than Franklin?

they are doing it this way to see if people are interested, didn't you read the last page?

I sent in my letter.

>Marika Cresta
R-rikachan made it to Marvel? I feel so proud
She's a qt too

That Inferno tie-in was really horrifying as in "I'm getting upset as an adult in a way that makes me realize how much it would fuck me up to read this if I were actually 8"
Also probably the best Power Pack storyline out there

I miss when Marvel would do straight out Horror with kid books

I thought Alex's antigravity effect stops working as soon as he lets go.
And the little kids have got adult bodies. Julie's tits stand out the most, but there's also Katie's hourglass figure and Alex's 20-something body.

Good premise for the one-shot story, tho.

I read them when they came out and was 10-12 at the time, so I really remember connecting to this comic emotionally and some were pretty disturbing, especially Inferno.

This made me wish I would a better brother to my sister.

So, are we assume by Kate's narrative that Alex did purgue Bogey out of him with the power of siscon?

Give it the Pixar treatment. If a bunch of literally whos like Big Hero 6 could reach a place because of only one animated movie, a Power Pack animated movie is all Disney would wish.

I'd be happy with another run by the guys who did the last one where they went to Asgard and such, Guhiru or whoever.

Yeah. Had he not then she'd be dead.

Gurihiru are better with Gwenpool right now unfortunately, although they keep sneaking in Power Pack references there (like having Gwen where a Power Pack shirt) so they clearly still have fond memories for that project. They were definitely a perfect fit for Power Pack, although I'm not sure how they'd do on a modern Power Pack. Thing is that, at this point, most of Power Pack are older. Alex is a young adult, Julie is in college, Jack is in high school. They didn't quite make it clear how old Katie is here but I'd figure probably around 12.

They're all certainly still young enough for GuriHiru to work with, but their age ranges have definitely made them closer to your average young adult/teen hero team in age than their classic versions.

yeah, Marvel has a lot of YA writers ATM. The Runaways one seems decent and might work for a Power Pack one, she brings a lot more emotional weight than most of their YA writers (or comic book writers writing YA, I'm looking at you Waid). Power Pack needs some really heavy emotional beats if it's brought back

Yeah, I feel like people who've been colored by the GuriHiru Power Pack books only aren't quite aware of how dark the original run got. It was for kids, sure, but it really didn't fuck around.

Sign of the times. Go look at a kids movie from 1985 and compare it to one from 2010. Big difference in what is acceptable.

That said, I'm perfectly fine with bubblegum Gurihiru Power Pack.

Huh.

Can someone post recommendation list for Power Pack or where to start at least?

The GuriHiru Power Pack books are 10/10. After that, I'd say go back and read the original 1-62 run. It's good, though tonally a bit different than the Gurihiru stuff.

Marvel Adventures/Age ones?

They were All-Ages books, but I'm not sure if they fell under the Marvel Adventures banner. If I remember correctly, they were:
>Power Pack: Day One!
>Power Pack: Pack Attack!
>Thor and the Warriors Four
>Fantastic Four and Power Pack
>Wolverine and Power Pack
>Spider-man and Power Pack
>Avengers and Power Pack
>X-men and Power Pack
They're all minis. I might be missing one.

What child stands like that?

Generation Z was a mistake.

The kind that are begging to be dicked

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11 mimis
And they later were connected to Adv.

same here, my second fav book next to new mutants. this was, well, disappointing. wanted something new. wrote my letter though.

been saying this for years, put it in BH6 continuity. so few people remember PP you can just pixar the shit out of it.

the start. begins like a 80s fun adventure then merges with the batshit insanity of X-men and early 90s Fantastic Four. By the time it goes off the rails it's cancelled so very little time lost. the modern stuff is pretty great, but the original books are like a time capsule of YA comics.

So from #1. Got it.
And what crossovers?

>mutants AND inhumans
jesus fucking h christ marvel, STOOOOOOOP
there is no "And"

Fuck off mr. shill. I ain't buying shit

>especially super-powered kids -- mutant inhumans or anyone he even thinks is like them
I mean, sure, you could do away with the and and just use a comma instead, but it's still grammatically correct either way.