Book Review: MPH

Book: MPH (issues #1-5) by Mark Millar with illustrations by Duncan Fegredo

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Publisher: Image Comics

Description:

Growing up in Detroit, Roscoe and his friends know all about hard luck. But their fates take a different turn when they stumble upon a street drug called MPH — little pills that give them the power of super speed, and the opportunity of a lifetime. Now holding the perfect Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card, Roscoe leads Rosa, Chevy, and Baseball on a lightning-fast crime spree across the nation. But as a good guy dealt a tough hand, that's not enough for Roscoe. Before long, he and his friends are taking the fat cats for all they're worth, and sharing their take with the masses. But zooming through their riches at super-speed has a downside. The pills are running out, the Feds are cracking down, and a mysterious figure named Mr. Springfield is teaming up with the authorities, claiming to know more about the speedsters than they know about themselves. When time is your only asset, what happens when the clock runs out?


Rating: 1 star

Review:

I tried reading this but I couldn't get into it. Everything about this story felt disgustingly stereotypical and completely cliché. I feel like the author had the opportunity to turn these four characters into superheroes doing something amazing with these new found although temporary powers but instead it's a run of the mill plot with them using the powers for their own gain to get rich. Then at some point they decided to give away some of the money (well 10%) and keep the rest for themselves.

Many who have read and reviewed this book said that this was nothing but a way for the author to sell a movie which is apparently true since the movie rights for this have already been sold.

It was not hard to figure out what was going to happen in this story. It's so predictable. This was a disappointing read.