Retro Review

What would you do if you lived in a world full of super-humans, and your child was one of them? How would you cope with a super-strong toddler? Or a five-year old who could control minds? How could you keep your kid from flying into air traffic? Is there any solution when your child can dismantle the TV to make a time machine? Well, if you lived in the world Aaron Williams created for PS238, you could send your metaprodigy to a top secret elementary school, where the trained staff are themselves super-humans dedicated to teaching and training the next generation.

Aaron Williams’ brilliant PS238 has been around for 6 years, but it may be one of comics’ best kept secrets. It obviously has enough of a following to keep it in publication, but I’ve never seen it on a comic book store shelf, I rarely find it in back-issue bins, and I only know two other people who’d read it before me. (more…)