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In 1984 Marvel kicked off a new series set in the Marvel Universe with kids as the main characters. "Power Pack" was targeted at 12-year-olds like me but it never worked on the same level as the X-Men or Spiderman, probably because those comics featured characters who are outcasts and misfits, and if that doesn't speak to the average 12-year-old I don't know what does.
Anyway, Power Pack got super powers from some weird horse-headed alien creature.
They used these powers to rescue their parents and fight crime and government agents sent after them.
For whatever reason, Marvel decided to try the concept out again a few years ago. I picked up the first eighteen issues in a hard-backed graphic novel "Runaways" at our local library.
The concept is updated. The kids are a little older, eleven to seventeen, and they are not related, or even particularly close. Their parents belong to the same charitable organization and they meet up once or twice a year.
The complication arises when the kids discover that their parents are super-villains plotting to destroy the world. In spite of (or maybe because of) this adolescent fantasy the comic works. It is really well written and was difficult to put down. Read it. Anything else I write is a spoiler.
It also prompted me to look up the Power Pack. What have those kids been up to?
Alex, the oldest, stole the powers from his younger siblings and went solo for a while. Before the New Warriors blew up a town and prompted the Civil War Meta-Human Registration Act, Alex was a member. He quit just before that unpleasantness because he had second thoughts about stealing his power from family.
There are new, out-of-continuity mini-series out and in development which are suitable for all ages and co-star other Marvel characters. I plan to try to find them for Gwynyth.
I'd rather delay her theories that her dad is a super-villain as long as possible.
If she doesn't know, she won't have to lie to the authorities to protect me. Besides, in a few months my death ray should be complete and hydro-carbon free.