Oct 08 2008
Paul Jenkins’ Sidekick #1-5
I really wanted to like Paul Jenkins’ Sidekick. I was even excited about it when I saw it in the previews: it was a comedy book at a time when I sorely needed one, DC Comics having torn the Super-buddies to shreds between Identity Crisis and Infinite Crisis, and it was by an excellent writer. He’d done a great four-year run on Hellblazer, written the memorable Inhumans limited series that made people sit up and take note of the potential in the characters, and co-created the Sentry, an intriguingly complex character. I thought perhaps all that expectation is what killed Paul Jenkins’ Sidekick for me when it first came out, but even re-reading it now, it doesn’t measure up to any of his other work. It’s unremarkable, a little derivative, and worst of all, not particularly funny.
