Livewires, Vol. 1

Every once and a while, Marvel comics will put out a new line of comics geared towards reaching “non-traditional” comic audiences. They'll sell these new titles in traditional comic book stores, where only traditional comic audiences tend to go, and then they'll cancel the books when they don't sell well. Every time they do, there are some really fun titles that get produced, and Livewires definitely fits into that category.

It's especially odd that this was a series marketed to “new readers”, though, because it's ver steeped in old Marvel; the main storyline deals with the Livewires team trying to take down an army of LMD (android) versions of Nick Fury, and one of the characters is sporting an AIM uniform on the cover of the volume. It's a mongrely sort of series, but light-hearted and fun enough that you don't really have to think about it.

One of the things that I really did like about this book is that it has some of the most fun character names that I've seen in a Marvel series in a long time:
Hollowpoint Ninja. Gothic Lolita. Cornfed. Stem Cell. Social Butterfly. Not the most descriptive names in terms of powers, but wonderful all-around.