Two years too late, and a botch-job to boot. When the Great Ten first appeared in 52, there was so much promise for the team of Chinese superheroes. But what we get is a formulaic superhero story starring one-dimensional characters set in a paternalistic-Western version of China. There are, as there ought to be, conflicts centering around China's brutal suppression of dissent, and there are, as there should be, heroes who protest this treatment and others who support it. But the nature of their responses is rote, and, worse, rote from an American perspective. There's no consideration given at all to the way these disputes manifest within the culture that is actually struggling with them.
It's been a long time since a comic has been bad enough to make me angry. But Great Ten is such a wasted opportunity.
