HEROINEBURGH #3, from Heroineburgh Comics, delivers two tales of Heroine adventure when an evil scientist kidnaps two Heroines for a deadly experiment and a trio of thieves starts a city-wide panic as a distraction.
The Details
- Written by: Manny Theiner
- Art by: Benjamin Zeus Barnett, Wayne Brown
- Colors by: Benjamin Zeus Barnett, Wayne Brown
- Letters by: Benjamin Zeus Barnett, Wayne Brown
- Cover art by: Jason Wright
- Cover price: $9.99
- Release date: Available now
Is It Good?
HEROINEBURGH #3 is the type of indie comic that gets made because the creators have pure joy for the story they want to tell. Based on the Heroineburgh web series, HEROINEBURGH #3 delivers two tales of wild Silver Age fun starring a collection of female heroes and villains, and this issue also delivers on its promise of showing you a fun time.
Manny Theiner’s script centers on two stories taking place in the greater Pittsburgh area where supercriminals from the Black Faction seek to discredit the Pittsburgh Heroine League and rob the city for all it’s worth. Admittedly the stories are hoky, much like the Silver Age comics they homage, but there’s a certain charm to the adventures with on-the-nose heroine and villain names, outlandish costumes, and melodramatic dialog. You get a retro throwback feel to the classic serial adventures of Hollywood.
That said, the throwback vibe can be wooden and clunky in spots, especially in the dialog. There’s a fine line between homaging an age and poorly copying it. Theiner stays on the good side of that line for the most part, but not always.
The art is… hard to quantify. Barnett and Brown deliver a complete issue, and the character designs amazingly mimic the real-life actors from the web series, so as adaptations go, this issue is successful. Conversely, some of the shortcomings of digital art are present, such as characters paster onto a background without a proper mix of light and shadow to integrate the characters into the setting. The art isn’t terrible, but it’s on par with what you would expect from an above-average indie project.
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What’s It About?
[SPOILERS AHEAD – Click here if you just want the score without spoilers]
Check out our HEROINEBURGH #2 review to find out Panthyra and Savanna came to blows.
As with all our anthology reviews, we’ll cover each short separately.
Evil Experiment!
In the last issue, Panthyra and Savanna came to vicious blows. Just as the battle was about to reach a climactic conclusion, Chlorina arrives and knocks both fighters out with her hypno-gas. Chlorina takes both opponents back to her lab as part of her experiment to clone Heroines as superpowered slaves to do her bidding.
Insect Invasion!
Devorra takes a job to create a major distraction at the local Pitt basketball game so Mark Drake and Vaporia can rob Cybertech Systems. What follows is mayhem and chaos when Devorra enthralls all the Pitt game attendees. Meanwhile, Drake and Vaporia begin Phase 1 of a master machine plan.
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Final Thoughts
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HEROINEBURGH #3 is an above-average indie project where the creators show a genuine love for the web series on which this story is based. The writing is hokey but in a fun, Silver Age kind of way, and the character designs are unique, even if they are also hokey.
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