My Thoughts:
Although Black Panther has been around since 1966 in the Marvel Universe (I believe he first appears in one of the Fantastic Four comics), the movie has brought on a hunger for Black superheroes. Pair that with Spider Man: Miles Morales, and there is an even greater hunger for the superhero as nerd, weakling, average teen. Quincredible fits into this Miles Morales mold. Quin is invincible, but that does not make him incredibly strong. Instead, it makes him into a perpetual punching bag for the bullies. He is in desperate need of a mentor and a coach, but he really also just wants to get the girl and be invisible for as long as he can.
I find Quin to be believable as the weakling, awkward, New Orleans teen who tries to hide his problems from his loving, yet clueless parents. When his mentor, "Glow" shows up not so much as a coach, more like a facilitator, Quin is challenged to find his inner strengths. What he finds, in end scenes that remind me of the shenanigans on the Home Alone movies, is that his strengths really were always in him, and they have nothing to do with the meteor shower "Event" that made certain people into superheroes. That is really the message - your power is in you. You have always had it. This is volume 1 out of 11, so I hope he continues to use his real super powers to save his community.
From the Publishers:
Invulnerability is a pretty useless superpower if you’ve only got a one-hundred-pound frame to back it up. That’s what Quinton West’s life became when he went from “small guy who got beat up” to “small guy who can’t get hurt” after the meteor shower dubbed “The Event” gifted him the power of invulnerability, but no other powers to compliment it.
But there’s more to Quin than meets the eye, and after some encouragement from his new mentor—a local New Orleans–based superhero named Glow—Quin realizes that he can use his quirky hobby of creating Rube Goldberg devices to outsmart the opposition. But being a hero paints a target on your back, and Quin’s got to risk it all to join the ranks of the superheroes he looks up to. It’s a good thing he can take a punch.
But there’s more to Quin than meets the eye, and after some encouragement from his new mentor—a local New Orleans–based superhero named Glow—Quin realizes that he can use his quirky hobby of creating Rube Goldberg devices to outsmart the opposition. But being a hero paints a target on your back, and Quin’s got to risk it all to join the ranks of the superheroes he looks up to. It’s a good thing he can take a punch.
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