Book: The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires volume #1: Money and Power (issues #1-8) by Art Baltazar and Franco with illustrations by Ig Guara
Edition: Single print issues
Rating: 5 stars
Review:
I'm really puzzled by something, how could this series have been cancelled? It was different (which I loved) but what really made me enjoy this was it had a good plot, a fun story and interesting characters.
The series is about four rather rich and famous young adults:
- Mohammed Qahtanii, a Prince who is trying to prove his financial worth to his father in the hopes of one day taking over the family business
- Commodore Murphy, rich and intelligent always looking for the latest tech invention and gadget
- Cecilia Sunbeam, a flighty and vapid actress who is more known for making headlines than starring in successful movies
- J.P. Houston, a Texan cowboy who has more money than sense
The first issue opens with Mohammed and his bodyguard Abisha in NYC on their way to one of Commodore's Pop Up Tech Expos, he was hoping he could figure out how to grow his already vast fortune to prove to his father that he knows what he's doing. Mohammed was quickly introduced to Commodore and his two friends by J.P. younger sister Lucia.
As the group now joined by Mohammed, Abisha and Lucia tour the expo checking out all the latest inventions, Commodore was attacked by a masked villain named Riot. The attack unfortunately was due to Mohammed taking pictures of the event and posting them online and it lead the villain right to them. Apparently, Riot has been tracking the trio trying to retrieve a certain device from them.
A fight breaks out at the expo with multiple clones of Riot was attacking the group, which gave Commodore the perfect excuse to try out the device. It transformed into a special suit that gave Commodore a fighting chance. He wasn't the only one out the group to wear one of the devices, J.P. gave Cecilia one to keep her safe.
The group although separated eventually escaped leaving them time to trying to figure what they were going to do. Problems were starting arise from wearing those special suits, one of Cecilia's arm was turning into metal.
Things fast paced even more with the gang trying to stop Riot as well as trying to stop the person who was behind everything that was happening to all of them. They were also trying their best to live up to being superheroes now that they have powers.
I really enjoyed reading this, the writing was beyond good and the stories had a good balance of action, drama and humor. Each issue was fascinating and I honestly don't understand how this series wasn't a hit.
However, I do have one minor problem with this, it was Cecilia. She was pretty much a useless character and I thought J.P.'s little sister Lucia was more interesting than her.
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