Relative Heroes #3

The cover of this 2000 DC series puts the spotlight squarely on Temper — a young heroine in a pink-and-white armored costume, pigtails, and a fierce scowl — perched on an ornate green couch while lightning crackles at her feet. The tagline "Sugar and Spice and everything NICE? That is SO last millennium!" makes her attitude perfectly clear, and Yvel Guichet's pencils (inked by Aaron Sowd) give her a punchy, kinetic energy that's hard to resist. With Devin K. Grayson's script and a story titled "Free Lunch," issue #3 of Relative Heroes promises the kind of sharp, character-driven superhero storytelling that made this series a fun corner of DC's turn-of-the-millennium lineup.