Megalextoria

At MegaCon this year, I picked up a number of cheap comics. Most were 50 cents, some were $1. There might not be any spectacular gems here, but for that price it is hard to find a bad buy. I picked up a variety of older and newer titles, including this one.

I grabbed The Programme just because it looked interesting. It wasn’t a title that I was familiar with which isn’t too surprising as it was limited to 12 issues and published in 2007, long after my peak comic buying days. The entire series was written by Peter Milligan with artwork by C.P. Smith and published by WildStorm. The premise of the story is that during the Cold War, Russia and the U.S. created super-powered humans as weapons to be used in case of war. Until that eventuality, they were put on ice. With the Cold War now long over, they have woken up. It’s vaguely reminiscent of The Boys tv show, at least in the fact that superheroes are treated as a national asset.

I happened to pick up issue 2 and it is sort of slow moving and confusing jumping back in forth in time and place (of course, I did miss the first issue). However, it seems interesting and I would probably pick up the other issues if I ran across them for 50 cents. I’m not terribly fond of the artwork however. Everything is just so dark…there’s not much detail to be seen. The covers are kind of nice though.