Kamen America, Vol. 1: Stars and Strife

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Instead, she declares that the hero's identity is instead uniquely Carly's on account of all the good deeds and heroic work Carly had done while using that name.

Conflicted with the need to take down her friend-turned-foe, Kamen America is faced with the decisions she'll have to make to stop Vermillion's destructive rampage while salvaging what's left of their relationship! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Things get complicated really quickly when Carly's former agent, Niro Lansky, joins forces the mysterious woman behind the monster attacks: Vermillion Masquerade! Pellegrini's wit and sense of humor are on full display and never come off as too on-the-nose or condescending, and Lim's gorgeous artwork and character designs are a joy to take in. Kamen America also markets itself heavily to Japanese audiences as well thanks to its familiar style, official Japanese translations, and its title of " Kamen America" that shows it draws from Sentai series as well.High School AU: The second web series, Kamen Academy, functions as this: it sets all the main characters as students in the same high school. Big Bad Friend: Vicki, Carly's best friend since childhood, is revealed to be the villainous Vermillion Masquerade, the arc villain for the first four issues. Charlotte “Carly” Vanders was an aspiring fashion designer whose fate was changed the day she was bombarded by cosmic debris!

Almost everything in this comic is just gushing over how conservative american values are better than those 'crazy liberals'. Good thing, too, because enormous monsters start springing up across the country, and her agency isn't about to let this crisis go to waste. Her path toward this goal is promptly shattered by irradiated space debris, and surprise, surprise, she's now a blonde, supercharged human battery! Meet Charlotte "Carly" Vanders, a driven, patriotic, enthusiastic redhead who wants to be a fashion designer (shocking in this day and age, I know).Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: This series is close to the 'idealism' side of the scale.