I decided to pick up the first volume of this series as I've been hearing nothing but praise for the animated show, so I wanted to check out the source material first. And...I may have been wrong in that. There is nothing really special about this story to me. Every character seems paper thin, which of course, may be somewhat expected when the collection is only four issues, but there is no reason for me to get invested in Mark's story. Everything seems to come easy to him: his powers, his costume, his triumphs, everything gets solved way too easily. There isn't a struggle, internal or external, which, again, may be due to me having only read four issues, but they weren't enough to grab my attention in any way. Maybe I would be better off just checking out the series.