Noble Causes: Extended Family #1

Noble Causes #Special 1

by Jay Faerber, Dan Abnett, John Layman

When everyday girl Liz Donnelly married super-hero Race Noble, she didn't realize "until death do you part" would come so soon! Now, with Race dead, she's a stranger in a strange land - an everyday person living with a family of celebrity super-heroes! Behind the glamour and wonder lie dark secrets, ruthless ambition, and twisted desires.

81 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2003

Reviews

[Gary Butler · Rating 3 out of 5]

36th book read in 2015.

Number 326 out of 464 on my all time book list.

Follow the link below to see my video review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssbu...

[jcw3-john · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's an anthology. You've probably read anthologies before - it's got the same thing going as basically every anthology. A couple of great stories, a couple of bad ones, mostly just kind of meh. Doesn't really outstay its welcome, so hard to imagine anyone getting too mad at it.

I liked the short stories with Doc & Race, and the tabloid one was funny. There's a recurring theme in the anthology that follows from the main series - where the Nobles are entitled and use their power to browbeat civilians to get their way, but the main comic never really interrogated it like it probably should have.

(There's a scene in this where Doc scolds a young, inexperienced Race for all the collateral damage he caused stopping his first bank robbery - and the scene is so similar to one with Mark and Nolan in Amazon's Invincible adaptation that I wonder if the showrunners borrowed from it? Nolan in the comics wasn't nearly as concerned about that as he was in the show. Likely just a coincidence, but a fun one, and maybe not, given that Jay Faerber did work on the show... Fun to think about, anyway.)