Hero Camp

    (Image, 2005)
™ and © 2005 Robbi Roderiguez, Russ Lowrey, Greg Thompson

Eric doesn’t have the superpowers everyone expects from the son of Earth’s mightiest defenders. But showing surprising restraint on the in-jokes (the biggest allusion to pop super-hero-dom is “Camp Enokchuk”), writer Greg Thompson wisely leans Hero Camp toward kids forced into close quarters, who exist in the millions, rather than super-heroes, who exist only on paper. Robbi Rodriguez does a nice, brushy set of pages that can’t help but remind one of Mike Allred in this tale of a kid at summer camp for super-kids. It’s got lots of great setup, though we’re thrust rather far along into the camp experience, and the central conflict could stand a little more oomph. The book is planting seeds with its first issue that may yet grow into something mighty.

— Brendan McGinley
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Hero Camp #1

May, 2005
Cover Price: $2.95
2 copies available from $1.75 		Greg ThompsonRobbi Rodriguez, Jason Latour, Todd Nauck
Hero Camp #2

June, 2005
Cover Price: $2.95
3 copies available from $1.75 		Greg ThompsonRobbi Rodriguez, Cal Slayton, Mike Hawthorne, Andres Ponce, Chad Thomas
Hero Camp #3

July, 2005
Cover Price: $2.95
2 copies available from $1.28 		Greg ThompsonRobbi Rodriguez, K.R. Whalen, Franchesco, Neil Vokes, Mark Englert
Hero Camp #4

August, 2005
Cover Price: $2.95
5 copies available from $1.70 		Greg ThompsonRobbi Rodriguez, Cory Walker, Ryan Cody, Kelsey Shannon