Review:  The first issues of Super Real proper that I read didn't really come across to me.  I don't know if it was the plot, or what have you - but the whole effort was lost on me.  Not so with this one.  While the other guys are quite right on the "no real plot" angle here, I'm not sure that's what the creators of the series were going for with the #1 issue.  More likely than not, I think it was a set-up to get readers into the type of humor they were going for - in this case some hardcore comic book parodies.  In that regard, they drew me in and had me laughing. 

An odd contributor here was the contribution from guest artists in different segments of the issue.  It gave the book a very manic feel, like it couldn't quite make up its mind as to what it wanted to be.  This added a lot to the humor, which seems to require a sugar rush or something similar.

Overall: 4 stars.

Alex Haas

Review: The guest artists for this book made it a little more interesting. The story line of the characters facing their first challenges was okay, but some of the segments fell a little flat. It's not that I like all the characters they were picking on, but a lot of it just seemed to be cheap shots.  I guess I tend to find caricatures of the standard super heroes like Wolveroach in Cerebus a lot funnier.

Overall: 3 stars. I guess I was expecting this to be funnier than it was.

Robert Weiman

Review:  Guest artists are the main attraction of this issue of the Super Real series.  The story itself is really not much more than having the Super Real characters going "head-to-head" with comedic images of other comic book characters.  While it has its amusing moments, I'm not really sure why this is an issue 1 rather than a one shot.  There really wasn't enough story to carry a series with.

As for the artwork, it was hit or miss with me.  I'm not a big Manga artwork fan, so the part of the issue that featured this just didn't work for me.  Oddly enough, I liked the artwork of Jason Martin, the author/artist for the rest of the series, as one of the best in the book.  I think I'd rather see the stories with just his artwork.

Overall: 3 stars. Mostly action based, the storylines didn't really move anywhere, and I liked the orignal artists artwork as good as any of the guests. Looking forward to getting back to the original story line.

Ron Miller