Review of "Critter Origin," comic by Tom Hutchison et. al.

 Review of

Critter Origin, comic by Tom Hutchison et. al.

Five out of five stars

The story opens with a red-headed young woman wearing a cowboy hat and boots shopping at the local thrift store in Greenville, Michigan. Like all women that are on limited income, she complains about the prices and how her salary does not allow for many such purchases. She is trying to find some outfits more suitable for her upcoming time she will be spending in California.

 After her shopping adventure is over, she is walking on a dirt road through a cornfield when she is almost run over by a pickup truck. When a young girl screams help out the window, she suddenly turns into a super being clad in a skintight spandex outfit that shows every curve and groove. In a short time, she is able to stop the truck and rescue the girl from her kidnapper.

 When she arrives at a farm, we learn that the super girl’s name is Cassia Crawford where she is greeted by her friend Brenda and learns about her heritage as a super being. She acquires a costume having a belt with a buckle containing an artificial intelligence (AI) that controls the equivalent of a prehensile tail.

 Cassia is then introduced to a group of four other superbeings, quite properly composed of two male and two female members. When Cassia says that she looks like some kind of critter with that tale, the buckle changes condition, leading Brenda to believe that the buckle has selected the name “Critter” for the super powered Cassia.

 While this is not an origin in the usual term of explaining how a superhero gains their powers, it does give enough background information to get the story going. Most importantly, it generates enough interest in the reader that they want to read the next issue and tell people about the existence of this one.