‘Imperial’ #1 is a Heartwarming Twist on Superhero Origin Stories
In his Eisner winning graphic novel It’s a Bird, Steven T Seagle wrote about how he had trouble coming up with a Superman story that meant something to him while also coming to terms with his father’s Huntington’s Disease. Imperial #1 has a similar theme of “coming to terms”, but places it squarely in the superhero genre. In the opening pages, not the sharpest knife in the drawer Mark McDonnell finds out that his dead father was the superhero Imperial that he read about in comic books. But Seagle eschews the overseriousness of recent superhero origin stories and retellings (*cough