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Power Pack: Day One #1-4
Power Pack: Day One
When Franklin stays with the Power family, Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie, the young superheroes known as the Power Pack, explain how they got their powers and describe their efforts to understand and control them.
104 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2008
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Fred Van Lente
1,365 books321 followersFred Van Lente is the New York Times-bestselling author of comics as varied as Archer & Armstrong (Harvey Award nominee, Best Series), Taskmaster, MODOK's 11, Amazing Spider-Man, Conan the Avenger, Weird Detective, and Cowboys & Aliens (upon which the 2011 movie was based), as well as the novels Ten Dead Comedians and The Con Artist.
Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers!, The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey), and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020).
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats.
Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers!, The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey), and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020).
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats.
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July 10, 2013
Reprints Power Pack: Day One #1-4 (March 2008-August 2008). The Powers are charged with babysitting Franklin Richards of the Fantastic Four and Mr. and Mrs. Powers still remain unaware of their children’s extracurricular activities as the super-power team Power Pack. With no crime going on the Powers decide to tell Franklin their origin and reveal to Franklin how they gained their powers from Whitey and fought back the evil Snarks with the fate of their parents and the world hanging in the balance.
Written by Fred Van Lente and illustrated by Gurihiru (with back-up stories by Colleen Coover), Power Pack: Day One is essentially a retelling of Power Pack #1-4 (August 1984-November 1984) to fit in with the All-Ages Power Pack line. The eight series in the line followed Iron Man/Power Pack: Armored and Dangerous and makes reference to Fantastic Four/Power Pack: Favorite Son.
I honestly like Power Pack. It might be a bit goofy and childish, but it is appropriate for the series. I enjoyed a lot of the series (until I feel Marvel gave up on it), but the relaunch of the series in this format leaves me a bit empty.
Part of what made the original series good was Power Pack really felt like kids active in the Marvel Universe...who were too young for what their powers and the responsibilities coming with them. Power Pack: Day One makes the series too kid-friendly, and the point of the original series feels a bit lost.
It also is a bit weird that a kid based series which essentially is a relaunch waited eight mini-series in to give an origin issue. If it had been the original series, it would have made sense as a way to introduce new readers to the characters. I understand having the Power Pack characters teamed with big guns like Iron Man and the Fantastic Four, but younger readers probably don’t know the characters.
The story’s art is fine, but I actually found the back-up art for Colleen Coover’s power explanations better. The series is kid based, and it seems like the Power Pack should be more kid based art like these back-up stories.
Power Pack: Day One is a nice introduction to Power Pack, but I still recommend either hunting down the original issues of the old comic or picking up Power Pack Classic Volume 1. You’ll probably be satisfied either way, but I still find the original better. The series was followed by Power Pack/Wolverine: The Wild Pack.
Written by Fred Van Lente and illustrated by Gurihiru (with back-up stories by Colleen Coover), Power Pack: Day One is essentially a retelling of Power Pack #1-4 (August 1984-November 1984) to fit in with the All-Ages Power Pack line. The eight series in the line followed Iron Man/Power Pack: Armored and Dangerous and makes reference to Fantastic Four/Power Pack: Favorite Son.
I honestly like Power Pack. It might be a bit goofy and childish, but it is appropriate for the series. I enjoyed a lot of the series (until I feel Marvel gave up on it), but the relaunch of the series in this format leaves me a bit empty.
Part of what made the original series good was Power Pack really felt like kids active in the Marvel Universe...who were too young for what their powers and the responsibilities coming with them. Power Pack: Day One makes the series too kid-friendly, and the point of the original series feels a bit lost.
It also is a bit weird that a kid based series which essentially is a relaunch waited eight mini-series in to give an origin issue. If it had been the original series, it would have made sense as a way to introduce new readers to the characters. I understand having the Power Pack characters teamed with big guns like Iron Man and the Fantastic Four, but younger readers probably don’t know the characters.
The story’s art is fine, but I actually found the back-up art for Colleen Coover’s power explanations better. The series is kid based, and it seems like the Power Pack should be more kid based art like these back-up stories.
Power Pack: Day One is a nice introduction to Power Pack, but I still recommend either hunting down the original issues of the old comic or picking up Power Pack Classic Volume 1. You’ll probably be satisfied either way, but I still find the original better. The series was followed by Power Pack/Wolverine: The Wild Pack.
July 20, 2024
This re-tells their origin, which took 4 issues instead of the 40 pages it took 25 years ago. This added in several things that may or may not have been revealed in the original series, as I stuck around to #33 or 34, and haven't read anything beyond the first few issues in 20+ years.
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