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Gravity
Gravity
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Mike Norton
Gravity 1
Big City Superhero
We are introduced to our hero, Greg Willis. He’s fresh from Wisconsin, trying to adjust to life in New York, and trying to find his place as a student and as a hero. He refers to “the Accident” but we don’t find out what it was. A fun thing they do in this series is in the back ground, having heroes flying around. In this case, it’s Iron Man.
As Greg talks to his councilor, (He wants to be in property management, obviously based off Gravity) Rage and an unidentified black man rips through the wall. As Greg gets his gear on, he thinks about networking and getting a team invite. As he’s getting dressed, Rage has already won the fight. Not that it stops Gravity from taking the fight.... right to Rage. The man in black gets up, smacks Gravity around, and takes off, leaving Gravity with a very angry Rage.
Rage berates Gravity for letting Black Death get away, and accuses Gravity of being racist. “I gotta be the bad guy ‘cause I’m black!” Buddy, have you not seen yourself lately? Hell, if I didn’t know you were the bad guy, I would’ve attacked your ass too. Stop wearing those damned spikes already!
Greg later meets up with his new roommate “Frog” who is very excitable. Turns out that Frog is into heroes big time, and tells Gravity about Rage and Black Death. Greg does decline to go partying with Frog.
On his first night on the job, Gravity helps a man steal a car (it was an accident), save a woman from death, but she gets upset, he stops a man from being mugged and is threatened to be sued, and then the Thing blows him off. All in all, this night has sucked.
He helps an old woman who lost her medicine. And she had the best line of the book. She talked about his wonderful costume, “Superheroes these days, you can’t tell if they’re the good people or not, with all that armor and those pointy shoulder pads....” Beautiful and exactly what I was thinking about Rage!
Anyway, she has an apparent heart attack, and Gravity flies around desperately trying to find a hospital. He lucks out and finds an ambulance who was on the way to the hospital, and she gets some medical help.
However, waiting on her, he’s late, and ends up running into a cute girl who races him to class. End the first issue.
This is a perfect start to this series. Small town hero tries to do good, but fails, and it ends up costing him some personal stuff. Wonderfully written, and a fun story.
Gravity 2
Friends and Enemies
The girl has a name now, Lauren Singh, and she “rocked” Greg’s world. However, while eating with her, he notices the Rhino destroying the downtown area. It didn’t take long for him to whip up on Rhino. And that makes me sad really. When did Rhino become the whipping boy of the MU? Heck, even in the Blue Cyclone’s first run, I had him beat up on the Rhino.
Greg reads about his exploit in the Bugle, and is confused about why they thought he was an X-Man. However, he meets up with the Greenwich Guardian. “Good guy or bad guy?” They arrange to have a patrol together... like a study date... how sweet....
Greg turns Frog down again, and Frog is getting angry. I can see that.
Lauren wants to take Greg to see Showgirls... why don’t I know any girls like that? Damn him and his fictional life! Of course, he has to turn her down because of his study date with GG. “I bet Spider-Man never had problems like this.” I love that, using Spidey as a staple... guilty of doing that in BC myself.
Guardian points out that Gravity’s insignia looks like an X. They go on patrol, and have a grand time. However, the good times end when Black Death show up.
This issue was fun, but not as fun as issue one. But it’s a wonderful read, and you should find the book, seriously.
Gravity 3
What Goes Up
In this issue, Gravity gets his ass kicked by Black Death.
While studying with Lauren, she thinks that Greg was mugged. He professes that the bad people has already won in the town.
Frog asks Greg out to another party, but Greg lays into him. Some friend he’s being.
Greg basically quits being Gravity, he finds life is just harder than he thought. That was until Lauren showed up at his dorm and demanded that he gets a shower and dressed. She takes him to a mariana, just like his parents own, and then to her room. They are just about to kiss, when Spider-Man shows up fighting Jack O Lantern. But he decides to stay with the girl and not play hero. I know that would be my choice.
In short, this was an issue about him giving up, and he didn’t. I really liked this. This is what Ultimate Spider-Man should be. He’s trying hard, and it’s just not enough. We’ve all been there. And then we struggle on, because we need to.
Gravity 4
Priorities
When we pick up the story, Greg hasn’t been Gravity in two weeks, when the Guardian calls for him. He convinces Gravity to steal a piece of tech that Black Death is after. Hmm, that seems suspicious.
Since he blew off his date with Lauren, she broke up with him, so he threw himself into his life as Gravity. However, since he stopped going to class, he was failing everything. He talked his prof into giving him a break. In turn, his prof told him to take a break.
He asks Frog if he could go to a party, and Frog is more than happy to take him. He sees Lauren at the party, and runs off, Frog chasing after him. That’s when Frog sees the Guardian, and says that the Guardian hadn’t been seen in a couple of years. VERY Interesting....
Turns out the equipment that Gravity stole was a graviton trap, and the Guardian turned out to be Black Death!
Neatly sets up the next issue. A big fight is coming, I’m fairly certain. Guess we’ll see who wins....
Gravity 5
Chewed Up and Spit Out
We finally get a chance to see the Accident. It’s dull, really.
Black Death starts to destroy campus, when Gravity stopped the machine. After Gravity stops Black Death in a somewhat cliched fight, he vanishes. Spider-Man shows up, and recognizes Gravity’s insignia. It’s the sign of gravity... nice touch, especially since Spidey WOULD know what it was.
As he’s about to leave, Lauren tells him that he’s no quitter. A nice little montage followed, and I didn’t think that could happen in a comic.... I was wrong.
A solid ending, and I’m eager for more Gravity books, but I don’t think it’s coming. It was a wonderful read, and I highly recommend it to anyone.
Tomorrow night, Green Lantern: Rebirth... I bought it for Green Arrow.
Gravity
Written by Sean McKeever
Art by Mike Norton
Gravity 1
Big City Superhero
We are introduced to our hero, Greg Willis. He’s fresh from Wisconsin, trying to adjust to life in New York, and trying to find his place as a student and as a hero. He refers to “the Accident” but we don’t find out what it was. A fun thing they do in this series is in the back ground, having heroes flying around. In this case, it’s Iron Man.
As Greg talks to his councilor, (He wants to be in property management, obviously based off Gravity) Rage and an unidentified black man rips through the wall. As Greg gets his gear on, he thinks about networking and getting a team invite. As he’s getting dressed, Rage has already won the fight. Not that it stops Gravity from taking the fight.... right to Rage. The man in black gets up, smacks Gravity around, and takes off, leaving Gravity with a very angry Rage.
Rage berates Gravity for letting Black Death get away, and accuses Gravity of being racist. “I gotta be the bad guy ‘cause I’m black!” Buddy, have you not seen yourself lately? Hell, if I didn’t know you were the bad guy, I would’ve attacked your ass too. Stop wearing those damned spikes already!
Greg later meets up with his new roommate “Frog” who is very excitable. Turns out that Frog is into heroes big time, and tells Gravity about Rage and Black Death. Greg does decline to go partying with Frog.
On his first night on the job, Gravity helps a man steal a car (it was an accident), save a woman from death, but she gets upset, he stops a man from being mugged and is threatened to be sued, and then the Thing blows him off. All in all, this night has sucked.
He helps an old woman who lost her medicine. And she had the best line of the book. She talked about his wonderful costume, “Superheroes these days, you can’t tell if they’re the good people or not, with all that armor and those pointy shoulder pads....” Beautiful and exactly what I was thinking about Rage!
Anyway, she has an apparent heart attack, and Gravity flies around desperately trying to find a hospital. He lucks out and finds an ambulance who was on the way to the hospital, and she gets some medical help.
However, waiting on her, he’s late, and ends up running into a cute girl who races him to class. End the first issue.
This is a perfect start to this series. Small town hero tries to do good, but fails, and it ends up costing him some personal stuff. Wonderfully written, and a fun story.
Gravity 2
Friends and Enemies
The girl has a name now, Lauren Singh, and she “rocked” Greg’s world. However, while eating with her, he notices the Rhino destroying the downtown area. It didn’t take long for him to whip up on Rhino. And that makes me sad really. When did Rhino become the whipping boy of the MU? Heck, even in the Blue Cyclone’s first run, I had him beat up on the Rhino.
Greg reads about his exploit in the Bugle, and is confused about why they thought he was an X-Man. However, he meets up with the Greenwich Guardian. “Good guy or bad guy?” They arrange to have a patrol together... like a study date... how sweet....
Greg turns Frog down again, and Frog is getting angry. I can see that.
Lauren wants to take Greg to see Showgirls... why don’t I know any girls like that? Damn him and his fictional life! Of course, he has to turn her down because of his study date with GG. “I bet Spider-Man never had problems like this.” I love that, using Spidey as a staple... guilty of doing that in BC myself.
Guardian points out that Gravity’s insignia looks like an X. They go on patrol, and have a grand time. However, the good times end when Black Death show up.
This issue was fun, but not as fun as issue one. But it’s a wonderful read, and you should find the book, seriously.
Gravity 3
What Goes Up
In this issue, Gravity gets his ass kicked by Black Death.
While studying with Lauren, she thinks that Greg was mugged. He professes that the bad people has already won in the town.
Frog asks Greg out to another party, but Greg lays into him. Some friend he’s being.
Greg basically quits being Gravity, he finds life is just harder than he thought. That was until Lauren showed up at his dorm and demanded that he gets a shower and dressed. She takes him to a mariana, just like his parents own, and then to her room. They are just about to kiss, when Spider-Man shows up fighting Jack O Lantern. But he decides to stay with the girl and not play hero. I know that would be my choice.
In short, this was an issue about him giving up, and he didn’t. I really liked this. This is what Ultimate Spider-Man should be. He’s trying hard, and it’s just not enough. We’ve all been there. And then we struggle on, because we need to.
Gravity 4
Priorities
When we pick up the story, Greg hasn’t been Gravity in two weeks, when the Guardian calls for him. He convinces Gravity to steal a piece of tech that Black Death is after. Hmm, that seems suspicious.
Since he blew off his date with Lauren, she broke up with him, so he threw himself into his life as Gravity. However, since he stopped going to class, he was failing everything. He talked his prof into giving him a break. In turn, his prof told him to take a break.
He asks Frog if he could go to a party, and Frog is more than happy to take him. He sees Lauren at the party, and runs off, Frog chasing after him. That’s when Frog sees the Guardian, and says that the Guardian hadn’t been seen in a couple of years. VERY Interesting....
Turns out the equipment that Gravity stole was a graviton trap, and the Guardian turned out to be Black Death!
Neatly sets up the next issue. A big fight is coming, I’m fairly certain. Guess we’ll see who wins....
Gravity 5
Chewed Up and Spit Out
We finally get a chance to see the Accident. It’s dull, really.
Black Death starts to destroy campus, when Gravity stopped the machine. After Gravity stops Black Death in a somewhat cliched fight, he vanishes. Spider-Man shows up, and recognizes Gravity’s insignia. It’s the sign of gravity... nice touch, especially since Spidey WOULD know what it was.
As he’s about to leave, Lauren tells him that he’s no quitter. A nice little montage followed, and I didn’t think that could happen in a comic.... I was wrong.
A solid ending, and I’m eager for more Gravity books, but I don’t think it’s coming. It was a wonderful read, and I highly recommend it to anyone.
Tomorrow night, Green Lantern: Rebirth... I bought it for Green Arrow.
