Gen¹³: Superhuman Like You

Gen¹³ Vol 2 #4

by Adam Warren

Combining elements of pop culture and offbeat humor, GEN13: SUPERHUMAN LIKE YOU is an amusing adventure of adolescent mayhem and youthful frivolity. After years of being hunted by the government, the super-powered teenage heroes of Gen13 blissfully return to their California home. Looking to relax and regroup, the team of slacker super-heroes head off to a party only to find themselves caught up in a series of adventures. Featuring Fairchild, Burnout, Rainmaker, Grunge, and Freefall, this book includes a bizarre fight with a demented fast food employee, a hostile skirmish with a trio of powerful brothers, a battle royal with another team of super-heroes and a disturbing encounter with a couple of ferrets.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Adam Warren (born 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his original graphic novel Empowered, for adapting the characters known as Dirty Pair into an American comic book, and for being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style.

Reviews

[Ollie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This books stands not just a wonderful look back at a once-great comic book, but also a sad reality of how Adam Warren was probably the best writer Gen13 ever had. Although everything Warren has done in Gen13 is worth owning and rereading, Superhuman Like You was the beginning of probably the most interesting arc in Gen13 history.

Though unfortunately suffering from 3 different pencillers (4 if you count Mays, whose books are not collected here) giving a felling of being unfocused, Warren's writing is as brilliant as always, mixing intricate storylines, excellent dialogue, a touch of sci-fi, and brand new characters.

While Superhuman Like You only collects part of Warren's great run (which is long lost and forgotten right now in trade-paperback land), it's a nice reminder that the series ended on a high note. Probably the highest in its history.

[Federico Lucifredi · Rating 5 out of 5]

The inimitable Adam Warren of “Dirty Pair” fame tries his hand with the cast of Wildstorm’s Gen13. The humor is the usual meta-subtext riot of crazy hilarious references, and perhaps AW should have titled this “suprahuman” to embrace his phonetic spelling all the way into the cover pages.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Que alguien me explique cómo es que a Warren no le encargan series de adolescentes cargosos pero simpáticos más seguido porque la verdad que en este tomo la rompe. Diálogos afilados, personajes graciosos, mucha expresividad y, sobre todo, historias divertidas y palos para todos lados hacen de esta serie una de las más divertidas que haya parido el llorado sello WildStorm. Me parece que entre tepés en inglés y tomitos españoles de Planeta se puede leer de corrido toda la etapa (y que Norma recopiló completa en los últimos dos números de Archivos WildStorm), así que si no se acaba el mundo en estos días (algo que no es tan improbable, lamentablemente), espero darme una buena panzada de guarradas de Warren y degeneraciones de genactivos.