Young super hero, Vicky (AKA Victory Girl) arrives at her new post in San Francisco. While the general population see this as cause for celebration, the region's super villains are only interested in testing her limits.
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By Richard Cardenas Jr
Aug 4, 2011
Superhero stories have expanded into movies, video games, tv shows, and all sorts of fun, great, (but sometimes the opposite) and memorable things. But this reminds us where great superheroes came from: Comic books starting off small. This story is quite interesting. You see that the world the story is set in is already established with superheroes, villains, and organizations but this starts off introducing the new kid in town: Victory Girl. Now she is not a blonde, big-boobed, short skirt-wearing chick or a babe in a white suit and red cape you'd kill to get a date with. This looks to be a young girl. Possibly late teens or early 20s. Adorable, shy, intelligent, curious, quick when in action, even emotionally vulnerable, she is a very well-rounded and interesting character from start to finish. She is also lovable by the time you finish the story. The overall style is very interesting, not extremely muscular, exaggerated, or going for physical perfection. It in fact, has charm with... More > the character designs, expressions, and personalities. The action is also good as well as the villains. This book is a fresh new look at superheroes with an interesting story and a character you'll come to care about. You will definitely want more when you're finished reading this. And if some of you are getting tired of DC or Marvel dragging on their series longer than they ever should have, I would highly suggest getting this book. As big of a fan I am of DC, it's about time both DC and Marvel series ended the stories and characters they rely on and make fresh, new stories that have an actual ending and are not tied in with the other characters/series.< Less
This comic is fantastic. Vicky aka Victory Girl is spontaneously a competent, trained hero and extremely cute, and this comic depicts her first assignment as San Fran's new resident superhero. The production value and art are up there with stuff you see from major publishers, and the story is fun start to finish, the strongest facet being the strength the characters come off with. The action is excellent too, but I'd be hard pressed to name any other comic who established and then made me care about it's characters so quickly. The background book Children of Arras is optional, it covers the politics and background but Little Victory Chimera #1 here starts the real story the first appearance of Victory Girl, I'd recommend starting on this one and going back and picking up CoA if it leaves you wanting to know more of the background to the world, which you probably will. All that said, I eagerly await the future adventures of Victory Girl :)
I wish I had know about LV:CoA, but even without it, I found Little Victory quite enjoyable. You do get a good feel for the character, and a bit of attachment to Vicky.
If you haven't picked up on issue #1 of Children of Arras than this issue may seem like your standard super hero comic but the Children of Arras One Off (or issue 0 if you think of it) fills in the history of the universe quite well. Issue 1 of Chimera picks up with Vicky arriving in San Fran and after reporting for work at her new home she is quickly sent out to battle baddies ranging from Mech Drivers to symbiotic to mask wielder that end up in the least likely of imprisonment. It's the ending that really caps the first issue which I won't ruin but I'm happy to see a realistic ending to a day of crime fighting instead of the ole teeth grit, action post, chest out type of ending. Can't wait for more. :)
