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Comic book writers like Super Heroes a lot. There's something about the variety of ways that Super Heroes can manipulate their environments that spurs the creative ideas of your every day comic book writer.
Jeff Lemire in his afterward mentions this story being in his head for many years, and it shows. A Golden Age (1940s) Super Hero Team battle their one last nemesis in Spiral City: a Colossus called The Anti-God is vanquished by the blow of Black Hammer, but they all vanish in a huge ball of light. Secret Origins concerns the team surviving somehow on a lost farmhouse that they cannot escape from. Also, Black Hammer didn't come back with them.
Particularly peeved is a young girl named Gail who is really a 55 year old woman. Back in the day her super power was a kind of reverse Captain Marvel, where by saying a magic word she can morph into Golden Gail. Like boy Billy Batson changing to grown-up Captain Marvel, Gail changes to the 8 year old Golden Gail when using her super powers. The problem for her is when they're on the farm 10 years after the change she can never change back into an adult: she's forever 8 years old.
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