With Dynamo 5 going on its hopefully brief hiatus, I figured I'd re-read the entire 25 1/2 issues, plus the annual, to see if it held up in a more or less single read as well as it did in my memory. Fortunately, it did.
Regular readers will have heard Pops sing the praises of Dynamo 5 on occasion, but really, it's one of the best team superhero books created. Right off the initial premise it was something different. The Fantastic Four was the first of the family as team books, and obviously the most successful, but no one has really expanded on that idea over the years. Sure, lots of characters have various family members end up with powers of their own, whether it's Bruce Banner's cousin, Barry Allen's nephew (by marriage), or even Reed and Sue Richards's kids (though I haven't read the FF in awhile and don't know if the kids have powers these days). Sometimes the original and the relative will work together, and sometimes they'll even be on a team together, like in the JSA, but they don't form the entirety of the team. There's always more unrelated than rela