First time talking about this series that I grabbed in back issues back in 2015 or so. Quick synopsis is that the Superman-type of this universe died, but it turns out he was kind of horndog, so his Lois Lane (a secret agent named Maddie, who played reporter as a cover) tracks down 5 of his illegitimate kids, each with one of his powers, and turns them into a super-team to protect Tower City.
Except Maddie's in a coma, and four of the teens said enough. The remaining holdout, Scrap, has cobbled together a makeshift team from a few other heroes she or the team met along the way to try and hold the line. Which includes the two Firebirds up there, a guy named Quake who's a fine hero (as long as he stays on his meds), and Vigil, who's your mysterious terror that flaps in the night type (but is actually a character a reader of the series would already know).
As for this issue, there's not much to it, really. The new roster fights a bunch of guys calling themselves "the Veil" who were trying to rob a bank. It's just dudes in green jumpsuits with guns, so it goes pretty easy, but the previous team already trounced these guys and handed all their stuff over the a covert security agency, so where did this bunch come from?
The issue ends with news Maddie's condition is getting worse, and the only one who might be able to pull her out of it is Gage, the high school football star who got pop's telepathy (which at the moment, he's mostly using to know what play the other team is about to run.)
[4th longbox, 35th comic. Dynamo 5 #16, by Jay Faerber (writer), Mahmud Asrar (artist), Ron Riley (color artist), Charles Pritchett (letterer)]
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