With Love and Capes #4–the retail edition in stores, reviews are starting to filter in. And they're good!
..let's look at the indie publication Love and Capes. It's a fairly simple light comedy about a superhero who reveals his identity to his girlfriend. The main character is a Superman analog, and there are analogs of (at least) Batman, Wonder Woman and the Justice League around as well. Although the correspondence is decidedly loose and tilted towards humour. What makes this series so great is the characterization. While there are other more obvious gags in the book, most of the humor and fun come from the interactions between the protagonist, his girlfriend, and a few other characters. They have well-developed enough personalities already that creator Thom Zahler can play them off each other well enough to make a whole interesting book.
Love and Capes isn't trying to change the world of comics or make any other such grandiose claims. But if you like secret identity hijinks and light romantic comedy, you should really make the effort to track down this book.
This is a really fun series, which could best be described as crossing Superman with a 30-minute sitcom. The art is crisp and iconic, and the dialogue flows quickly and snappily. Heroes may be one way to take superheroes onto the television screen and make them really work, but Love and Capes is absolutely the other way to do so.