"I've always wanted to do comics," says Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski. July marks the first issue of Rising Stars, which he describes as an antidote to the dystopian tone of modern comics. "They've gotten kind of cynical and dark," Straczynski complains. "What always appealed to me was their sense of hope."
He finds the seeds of hope in an Illinois town hit by "the flash," an unexplained phenomenon that gives in-utero babies supernatural powers. Yet in the big, bad world, these kids are heroes on a human scale: One, for example, can fly - but only 5 feet off the ground.
"Rising Stars tries to redefine the tropes of superpowers," says Straczynski, who is redefining star power in the process.
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