Some thoughts about Secret Origins #7

Learn about the origins from these heroes from a new perspective.

What makes Barry Allen believe that his father is innocent? What made Helena Wayne the person she is now? What are the true roots of Superboy?

Well, it was good to see that this is actually creating interesting sub-plots.

The first section is dedicated to The Flash written by the authors of the main title, Robert Venditti and Van Jensen. Both are able to do a pretty good job at portraying Barry and showing the kind of person he is while at the same time remembering most of the events that happened early in his life as well as progressing the plot-point about his father, is overall a pretty competent story. The art is brought by Miguel Sepulveda who does an adecquate job, not particularly impressive but good enough.

The second segment belongs to Huntress written by Paul Levitz. Is actually not a poorly told story since it presents a lot of insightful moments about the character and why she decided to become this kind of heroine, it doesn't really progress her story but is still decent. The main problem here is the art provided by Jonboy Meyers who has a pretty anime-inspired style which doesn't really tell the story properly.

The third part is focused on Superboy written by Frank Barbieri. It doesn't have many problems but at the same time I wouldn't call it really good, it's pretty derivative from a writing and story perpective although it does present some interesting developments for the character at the end. The best aspect from this is Robson Rocha's artwork which is probably the best I've seen in this issue with really good looking and expressive characters.

I would say that I liked The Flash' story the best followed by Huntress' and Superboy in third. Decent issue overall.