I think there needs to be a rule wherein a book is considered a failure if it features a family and we learn everyone's first name except that of the mother. Dad gets a name. The kids get names -- heck, here they get two names if you count their superhero code names too. But Mom is just Mom: not so much a person as a function to be fulfilled within the family.

That aside, the rest of this book is just bland, boring superhero nonsense. It wants to be in regular Marvel continuity but deals poorly with the fact that the first comic book came out in 1984, and the Power siblings are still children coming on forty years later. Thanks to relativity, Alex is pushing 21. Julie is a dating teenager. But there is a lot of fudging when it comes to the ages of the younger kids. Jack seems about the same as always. Katie appears about eight or ten years old in the art, but draws and writes pages in the story that give the mental impression of a five or six year old.

A very disappointing book lacking the fun and imagination of Ryan North's Squirrel Girl work. ( )