'Incidentals Vol. 1: Powers, Lies, and Secrets' by Joe Casey with art by Larry Stroman is another graphic novel set in the world of "The Event."

This time around, the story follows Bo Vincent Chen, a billionaire as he tries to save a powerful teenager named Seven. There are opposing forces after Seven as well, and other people who received power during "The Event." This book ends with a chapter from "The Event" but these all feel like repetitious material, so once it's been read, it doesn't really add much to the story.

I only keep reading these because I got them as review copies, but I don't really enjoy them that much. The art has been sliding with each new book, it seems, and this one had a series of characters that seemed all the same. The story is just not that interesting.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Oni Press, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

I was kinda dissapointed by this one, not going to lie. I found the story incoherent and the characters weren't anything new.

I unfortunately didn't get to finish it in time before it expired on my pc. I hope I'll get to read it since I was very intrigued by it.

I did enjoy this comic, but it didn't surprise me as much as I was expecting.
The art, however, is amazing and I loved it!

I had trouble enjoying this book, unfortunately. I really wanted to enjoy it and the art is great, but the story did not draw me in and hold my attention.

A group of people obtain abilities as a result of a meteor crashing to Earth - not a very original premise. And the story doesn't get much more creative from there. The overall description of the comic sounded interesting, but it didn't hold up. The plot takes a long time to get anywhere, which makes it difficult to want to keep reading it. And for a superhero comic, it feels a lot more like a drama - a lot of talk and not a lot of action. The art is good, but that doesn't make up for lack of depth.

I'm picky about comics, still this one sounded good. Unfortunately I started out confused, and even once I figured out what was happening, the characters never really grew on my.

Billionaire Bo Vincent has superpowers. He works with other superpower people (a team) to try to save a teenager with superpowers from the “bad” guys. Will he be successful? There is conflict within the team that is causing the rescue of the teenager difficult.

It’s an interesting story that kept my attention as I wanted to know if they would be successful. I also wanted to learn about their superpowers.
I look forward to reading the next volume.

Incidentals is about a man who dreams of the end of the world, he has gathered a team of people like him, those with superpowers, to try and save it before time runs out.

I honestly don't have much to say about this story. I just couldn't get into it, the first chapter was just confusion. Nothing important was expanded on so I was left wondering what was going on for thirty pages. The next chapters did help, but I really had lost interest by then and none of the characters had gripped me.

This feels a bit like x-men along with an avengers vibe. I can totally see people enjoying this comic, but it really didn't mesh with me.

"The Event" gave a number of people superpowers, including the millionaire Bo Vincent Chen. He gathered a team of operatives with powers and is trying to save a girl named Seven from a team of agents that are heavily armed and prepared to take in people with powers.

The art is very dynamically drawn, and the story dives in right away. Maybe because of that, I didn't really feel any particular draw to the characters until about chapter three. There were flashes back to what happened during "The Event" and some of the fallout for the characters, as well as conflicts between Alex and his ex-girlfriend. Bo's team is fairly seamless and there's banter, but with so much emphasis on the action and vague hints at a larger threat, there really wasn't much chance of getting to know them. Maybe that's something for future volumes.

The conclusion of this book has a series of things that led up to "The Event," which ends on a very chilling note. It makes me wonder if this is part of what Bo is worried about for the future. If so, it's definitely something that will have a lot of ramifications for later volumes of this comic.

I have not read anything by Lionforge before, but I decided to on guve WV this a try because of Joe Casey. I've enjoyed his work in the past.

the premise is pretty straight-forward:: a meteor crash caused several peopke to develop superpowers and now two competing groups are collecting them into teams. For what, exactly, we don't know. The plot is a bit muddled and confusing, though. Casey worked in a number of flasbacks but its not always clear. I thi k this story is begging for a strong central character to anchor the story, but instead its all over the place.

The art is adequate. Actually, the action scenes are well done, Unfortunately, the characters all have a sameness to them facially and I sometimes found it hard to tell them apart. The volume includes pages from another series that gives background on the bigger world and the art is much stronger there. While I doubt I'll continue with this series I might check out others in the line..

This was your typical 'hit by a meteor and get super powers' comic... been there, done that.
The characters were ones we'd met before. The rich guy recruiting them and running the show, the girl who has her life turned upside down with her new powers causing her to lose love, the man with the bad childhood and daddy issues... it was fairly run of the mill. The art was really well done, I like that gritty older style of it being detailed, but at the same time simple (more focus on a background with the face of the person less detailed, or vice versa) it really brought your focus where it belonged.
The actual dealings with the meteor and what happened to cause them was the highlight of the read and I would be interested to check out more for that, but the story itself has definitely been done before.

I remember the days when Joe Casey used to be a decent writer. However, between the art and story this was mostly incoherent. The story flips back and forth in time but with no indicators that the passage is a flashback. Plus, all of the characters all look the same and there are a lot of characters. All of the women are drawn with long black hair and the men the same but short dark hair. I didn't even know one of the characters was black until I saw an alternate cover at the end of the book.

There's not much story here. We've got a rich guy putting together a team for unknown purposes on one side and some guys in military uniforms trying to capture other super-powered individuals. That's the entire extent of what we know so far. Not a very compelling reason to come back for more, which is a shame. I was looking forward to having another super-hero universe out there, but have of these books (the two written by Joe Casey) have been terrible.

About one quarter of the way through this graphic novel, I found myself skimming. The story was one I've seen before (rich man gathering superhero team in ragtag fashion with 'good' in mind to save them) and the art somehow never really appealed (it had its own style but it just wasn't distinct enough, if that makes sense). The last half of the book featured side stories taken wholesale from Noble Volume 1: God Shots by Brandon Thomas and Roger Robinson. So in reality I only got half a graphic novel here and I felt somewhat cheated.

Story: A meteor struck a beach - giving all those in the vicinity strange and unique super powers. One millionaire has had visions since he was struck and is 'collecting' the enhanced individuals in preparation for what he sees as a future invasion. But until then, there is another group on Earth also investing in 'collecting' the superhumans - for unknown reasons and by force. One lone girl, Seven, has managed to evade both parties but the situation is coming to a head as both Chen's group and the unknown military group close in.

This first volume interweaves backstories of Chen's group (a human teleporter, a guy who can nuke things, a man with extra strength, etc.), why they were at the beach at the time of the meteor, and how they have used their abilities since the "event". We have a man abused as a child who goes after his father, a couple who were very in love but broke up after they were changed, an MMA fighter whose new abilities puts an opponent in a coma, and Chen himself who has visions of other worlds and life being terminated there by a mysterious entity.

In between the flashbacks and quiet moments we have the team attempting to save/capture Seven as she uses optical abilities to escape police, the military force, and Chen's team. There is plenty of action but I have to admit it was very confusing and I just didn't have enough invested in the title to really spend the time to figure out what was going on more closely. Things happen, the girl escapes, we get flashbacks, Chen saying mysterious things in the present, then back to the girl.

The art and coloring were fine - I just never warmed up to either. The illustration work features hair with a lot of 'tribal' sharp edges that while is distinct stylistically just looked too odd to me. As well, the character designs were very mannered - I appreciate different racial features and diversity but the people here looked like they were run through an AI program that spat out odd but plausible archetypes. It's almost the opposite of the white washing problem - here no one looked like they were actual real people.

Most disappointing though was to find that I'd read half the graphic novel previous in Noble. Unfortunately, the Noble section seemed so much better than the Incidentals section, both in writing and in illustration work. There was something boringly familiar about the computer illustration work and coloring in Incidentals - oversaturated purples and blues of a 1990s Spawn series matched with Top Cow 1990s illogically thin character designs and odd hair everywhere. I feel that our tastes have matured a bit since that time.

So, while there is nothing terrible here, I also didn't find anything to really make me want to continue the series. The plot, designs, and coloring were all serviceable but it all felt like everything we've seen before in the 1990s. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

Gotta love a new team of superheroes. Great action art in this one and I love the racial diversity in the team. But, the story itself feels played (down to the twist in the end) and the recruiting was slow. In a way, because of the story line, this was the origin story for every character, which is also disappointing because origins are my favorite bits. There is some room for interesting back stories and competing motivations to come. I'd pick up the next volume to see where this goes.

Fairly cliched plot, but enjoyed it. Found it a bit confusing at first as the threads aren't very smooth but I liked the chronology of the story.

Unlike some of my fellow reviewers, I didn't dislike this series so far. The main problem that it has is that there's not much to set it apart from similar stories. The artwork is mediocre, the story sounds like movie plots we've seen a million times before, and even the small twist at the end seems almost too little, too late. They should have introduced it much earlier in the series if that is the difference in their story versus the times this meteor story has been told before. It was an ok read and the twist at the end does have me interested for the rest of the series but barely. For my family-minded readers, this one is actually not too bad for kids. There is some violence, which you get with any superhero comic, swearing was actually censored (although in a way you could tell what they were saying), and there wasn't any sexual content, unless you want to call women in tight clothes or a bikini on the beach sexual content. All that being said, I still can't say it's worth going out of your way for this comic. If you happen upon it though, it's not the worst way to waste time by Amy definition.

I would like to thank the publisher, author, and Netgalley for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

A very disposable book in the Catalyst Prime universe, where a meteor strike turned a few of us humans into superpowered people, and turned other people into superpowered people controllers. One guy here happens to be both, but this is so muddled, with artwork that makes all the characters too similar and just blandly ethnic, and unreadable action scenes. There's a strong sense already that this universe might not work - this is the second dud in the range, and we just want them to hurry up already and give us a few good stories, and not this many ones of such varying quality.

This is from an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher.

This continues the ongoing story of a meteorite storm, and the super powers some people evidently developed as a consequence. The titles are rather variable in appeal and quality because they're all done by different teams, and while some have been great, others have been lacking. In short the whole series has been a bit patchy and this one just squeaked under the wire into the safe zone, based on the fact that it was a decent story by Joe Casey that melded well with the others I've read.

In terms of the graphics, I was less thrilled, but it was hard to pin down exactly what the problem was. From the illustrations in the back, it looks like Larry Stroman's pencil work is up to par, but perhaps these demo illustrations aren't the same quality as the ones actually employed in the panels. I don't know. The images looked unfinished in many panels. Fortunately, graphics to me are not everything. I mostly fread books that are all text, os to me the story is most important. There has to be an engaging and coherent story, and while good graphics can't make up for a tale poorly told, less than stellar images can get by with a good story behind them.

In this one we meet a team which is dedicated to 'rescuing' the enhanced humans from the selfish clutches of those who would employ them for less than altruistic purposes, shall we say. For this they use an enhanced who has the same power which Jamie Chung's character, Clarice Fong aka Blink, has in Marvel TV's The Gifted. I would really like to see this series distance itself from The Gifted, but it continues to parallel it in terms of the powers which these enhanced people have.

That said, it makes for a worthy read for the most part and this particular issue, artwork notwithstanding, is a welcome addition to the series.

actually i liked the art work, and i liked the concepts - trying to save another super-powered 'girl' they discover - but i cannot follow the story very well, just picking up from all the elements what I suppose is going on - the cohort are not clear to me, so I'm not sure who are the good guys and who are the bad guys .. I'm not sure of names - and the police seem always to do same repetitive things and keep saying things like, 'oh no' 'holy god' in reaction to the way that girl behaves - so the encounters are the same when the conflict happens. but there is a certain sneaky wit in here that is more sophisticated than in other graphic novels i've seen of this superhero ilk.