Buzzword Readathon #1

I've been meaning to check out the Faith comics for a while, but it wasn't until Julie Murphy was announced to be writing a book of Faith's origin story that I finally decided I should read it. And oh boy, am I glad I did!

This comic is delightful. Faith as a character and superhero is wonderful. She's a classic superhero in that she always wants to see the best in humanity and just wants to save the day, but I love that we also get to see her struggle with being a hero, particularly a solo hero after she leaves the team she was part of. As well as seeing her superhero struggles, we also get to see her normal person struggles with her civilian job and relationship drama. These elements never took away from the main plot, thankfully, and instead added great depth to it.

I want to talk about the art for a second because I absolutely loved it. First of all, I love how Faith herself was drawn. The comics I've read tend to not be great at drawing plus-sized characters well; usually they either end up looking unrealistic or the artist doesn't want to commit to them actually being plus-sized. But Faith is drawn in a way that's both realistic and so that you can never question that she's a plus-sized superhero (I also appreciated the lack of fatphobia because while that's realistic sometimes you don't wanna read that).

Another thing I loved about the art was the way it would change whenever Faith would be imagining a scenario in her head, or explaining a scene of a TV show. The change was incredibly distinct and the style used was one that lends itself to being a sort of dream sequence, and I thought it was a really interesting way to convey that kind of day dreaming.

I need to be real, I only had one flaw and that's Faith referring to Joss Whedon as a wonderful man. Other than that, this was the perfect comic for what it was. While I do wish there were more issues, I know that there are other Faith comics I can continue onto plus a book coming in the future so I'm not too sad about it.