Creative Team
Writers: Bruce Brown, Robert Kirkman
Artist: Nate Bellegarde
Story Rating: 8 Night Girls out of 10
Art Rating: 7 Night Girls out of 10
Overall Rating: 7.5 Night Girls out of 10
Brit is part of the Robert Kirkman corner of the Image Universe. Somehow I never happened to read an issue. So it is a cruel twist of fate that the first issue I read is the last one. Kirkman says in the letter column that it will be back in some form in the future.
The background story is Kirkman and Terry Moore wanted to do a book along the line of The Authority. A big screen summer blockbuster style. Brit is the story of a man whose wife dies. When he gets over the shock he takes his son and searches the world for a way to make him invincible. He finally developes a serum and injects his son (Brit).
Brit becomes invincible but does not gain any additional powers. His father eventually remarries. The new marriage produces twins. He injects the twins with an improved version of the serum.
The daughter became invincible, gained super-strength, and stopped aging. The son was not affected by the serum. He became bitter over the years and attacked his siblings. It turns out that the second son did inherit his father’s brilliance. The serum did not stop his aging but did give him a longer life.
This issue features Brit having a showdown with his brother-Euclid. Euclid kidnapped Brit’s son and preformed a blood transfusion to try to find the original formula that was injected into Brit.
This is a classic pulp fiction type of story. What makes it different is when it appears that Brit and his son die in Euclid’s deathtrap, he realizes that he is wrong. This is his nephew and Euclid did not want him or Brit to die. I found this a refreshing change from many comic book stories.
The art was similar to the art in Invincible. It is a little too cartoony in some cases and good at other times.
Overall this was a good issue. I will be looking for the collections or back issues to read more of Brit’s adventures.
Recommend that you pick up the complete series and read it from the start.