The setting is Wellston Academy, a high school whose social structure matches the one of the adult world. Bullying is rampant and students live and breathe through this hierarchy system. The story focuses on John Doe, a kid with no powers who somehow keeps trying to challenge bullies, and his best friend Seraphina, the strongest student in the school.
There is a cool plot going with the government and mystery of the superhero murders, but over time the main theme of the comic becomes a kind a of study on violence and bullying (though the government plot is still happening in the background). What makes people violent, how society breeds it, cycles of revenge and how a person's previous violent history can traumatize them. It's very psychological, and the writer does a terrific job at setting up situations that make characters act in ways that make sense for them but are still tragic to watch. But that does mean it has a lot of on-panel violence, with not much death but A LOT of scenes of teenagers beating the crap of each other, so beware if you are sensitive to that.
Anyway, great comic, hope more people check it out.
Edited by NinjaDragon on May 9th 2021 at 11:56:32 AM
https://m.webtoons.com/en/super-hero/unordinary/list?title_no=679&page=1&webtoon-platform-redirect=true
So I just found this comic and I'm hooked. Does anyone else read it?
The premise is like a dark version of My Hero Academia. Almost everyone has superpowers, but instead of creating a super-hero society, humanity created a highly hierarchized and almost Spartan one, where people with stronger superpowers live better off and people with weaker powers are marginalized. Some people attempt to become super-heroes to improve society, but recently all heroes have been killed by a mysterious terrorist group.
The setting is Wellston Academy, a high school whose social structure matches the one of the adult world. Bullying is rampant and students live and breathe through this hierarchy system. The story focuses on John Doe, a kid with no powers who somehow keeps trying to challenge bullies, and his best friend Seraphina, the strongest student in the school.
There is a cool plot going with the government and mystery of the superhero murders, but over time the main theme of the comic becomes a kind a of study on violence and bullying (though the government plot is still happening in the background). What makes people violent, how society breeds it, cycles of revenge and how a person's previous violent history can traumatize them. It's very psychological, and the writer does a terrific job at setting up situations that make characters act in ways that make sense for them but are still tragic to watch. But that does mean it has a lot of on-panel violence, with not much death but A LOT of scenes of teenagers beating the crap of each other, so beware if you are sensitive to that.
Anyway, great comic, hope more people check it out.
Edited by NinjaDragon on May 9th 2021 at 11:56:32 AM