A comiXologist recommends:
The Mighty Titan #1

by: Matthew Burbridge

The Mighty Titan #1 is good old-fashioned superhero action.  It’s fights in tights without the moral ambiguity.  It’s punching robots without the consequences of not having fully grasped the villains driving motivations.  It is a simple plot with a family-accessible atmosphere.  “Simple” should not be taken as representative of a negative opinion.  I liked that I was able to read through this issue without the excess of extenuating circumstances that surround almost all of superheroics nowadays.  Sometimes it is just better to read about a handsome fellow punching robots and monsters for the city he protects.

This story sets us up with out-of-work forensic investigator Mark Williams.  Mark has been unemployed for some months and is in the process of reworking his resume for his next round of intense job hunting.  All his fierce typing on his laptop is interrupted by a tank-like robotic automaton wreaking havoc on the streets across from the very coffee shop Mark is working!

The police are at a loss, for what can they do if they can’t even run the mechanized menace down with a squad car?  Chicago’s resident hero Titan arrives to mop the floor with the tin terror!  The pages of fisticuffs to follow are thrilling and worthy of the late-Silver Age.

The creative team that brought us on this trip to a simpler time comes from the group of writers and artists over at Red Anvil.  The team comes with a few titles under their belts already with Joe Martino and his Shadowflame series, Luca Cicchitti with his series Misfits, and Jeff Austin with Unit 5.  Looking at this roster and their experience, you can enter this book knowing it couldn’t be worse than decent, and easily come out pleasantly surprised by a genuinely enjoyable experience.  Sometimes relatively small publishers are a hit or miss, but  Red Anvil has a solid product here in The Mighty Titan #1, and for those of us who miss a good safe read for most any age this seems to fit the bill.

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