Even held to the same standards as anything else, these prequels have thus far been complete horseshit. If you want to see a failed attempt at applying reality to the superhero paradigm, look no further than every alternative superhero comic published in the past ten years. Everybody seems to think they've got a clever take on "what if superheroes were real." They're always wrong. Watchmen doesn't exist in reality, it exists in its own set of rules.

Most of what I've seen online has looked like complete horseshit.

In fairness, I'll say the Silk Spectre series, by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner, would have made a perfectly adequate Black Canary project, violating no rules of creative propriety and probably attracting few readers.

Of Marvel's defunct M2 line, I actually liked Larry Hama's Wild Thing series. Ron Lim's art on it was shit (the fact that it was *THE* Al Williamson inking him is something I still can't quite process) but Hama blended that slice of teenage social life with the superheroics really well. Far better than DeFalco on Spider-Girl.

SS is trying to do something similar, but adding in a Forrest Gump style historical element. Something like that might fit in perfectly at Archie Comics, if they were actually interested in expanding their product line and not just pushing cheap marketing tricks (Archie finally gets married! We've got a gay Riverdale kid now!) This might also require them being willing to pay for better talent than Dan Parent, but I digress.

Hahaha! Timothy Bradstreet! How could this wankfest be complete without one of the wankiest wankers who ever wanked??

Congrats to J.G. Jones on not tracing *every* panel from photo reference, but he really shows off his lack of understanding of foreshortening and just basically how a human body is put together. His inks couldn't get much more bland if he had used Adobe Illustrator.