The Hypernaturals #6

Boom Studios
Written by Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning
Art by Tom Derenick & Andres Guinaldo

Ok, let me see if I can sum this up. The Hypernaturals are a team in the distant future who defend the Quantinuum; they have different abilities, serve for five years and are selected from a bunch of different applicants (With me so far?). Now, Clone 21 is brought back to life by Chernovski so she can stop him from destroying the universe, which he’s already done. He offers to bring back her team to help her do it (keeping up?) Then the rest of the book is, what I’m guessing is after this is done and Chernovski is back because someone brought him back. There’s more to it but I’m lost at this point.

Now the art in this was well done. You have the feel for the different times just by the art. Even the cover art wants you to pick it up. With the layout, during the different times in the book, it has different paneling. This does help differentiate between the two. And now the writing, I’m thankful that I was given a little background in the beginning of the book but it didn’t help when I was in the heart of the story. I’m guessing that I’d have a better grasp if I read the first five issues, but maybe not. The story was hard to follow.

The idea, from what I can gather has promise and could go far. But to me, this needed to have better structure so the story can come out. The characters were labeled so you knew who’s who but even with that I couldn’t follow the action. I don’t think I’ve come across the concept like this before if that’s the main story, someone who destroyed the universe is remorseful and wants to correct his error. At the beginning and end, there were ads for products and services in the time that I think took away from what was going on. If you want to read this, get the first five, then this one. That would be best, in my humble opinion. I give this 2 caps out of 5.