This is a HUGE book. 1300+ pages. And it's (mostly) great!

There's a few different comics here. So I'll break down each one in terms of how I enjoyed them.

Hardware - Basically a Iron Man style story but our main lead is a bit more vicious and will kill if needed. He goes from murdering people easily to get his revenge on his crazy asshole boss to learning to be a hero. It's nice to see a multilayer hero and this title becomes one of my favorite of the bunch. (4/5)

Static Shock - Probably the biggest character to come out of Milestone. After the Big Bang (The event that gave so many people powers) he decides to dress up as a superhero and save people. He's a teenager, with a spunky attitude, giving him bigger Peter Parker vibes. This works well as all the other heroes here are older. It's fun though sometimes overly wordy at points and the art is the weakest of the bunch. Still good old school vibes. (3.5/5)

Blood Syndicate - Probably the biggest surprise. A gang of formed of super powered heroes, mostly young adults. These aren't nice people, but they aren't "bad" they are a product of what the world gave them. It's rough but they do what they think is best, while robbing drug dealers and stash houses. This feels more like a suicide squad or young adult/adult type book since it contains plenty of adult themes, murder, and so on. This turned out to be one of my favorites of the group. (4.5/5)

Xombi - Horror is one of my favorite genre, but this overly long, wordy as hell, exposition out the ass mobojumbo failed for me completely. While the idea is cool, and the body horror is neat, the actual story is pretty abysmal and almost unreadable. I have no clue what I was reading about half way and even started skimming on the last issue or two. (1.5/5)

Icon - Holy shit is this great. A conservative black alien who's trying to get by in life. He's worked hard to build himself up from nothing, and then one day meets a girl who tried to rob him. Together they become heroes known as Icon and Rocket. It's a awesome twist, touching a great adult themed storylines such as abortion, poverty, and more. This turned out to be really special. (5/5)

Overall all of these stories except Xombi come together in Shadow Cabinet crossover at the end. It's pretty exciting to see all the heroes together but it's not the best crossover, a bit too messy. Saying that the individual series save for Xombi really do stand on their own. ICON being my favorite of the bunch but really any of them are worth reading and range from good to great (except Xombi). Picking up volume 2 without a doubt!