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This issue follows Nathan’s creative struggle as well as his coming to terms with his new powers. After foiling a bank robbery and getting into his first supervillain tussle, Nathan is now trying to put the pieces of his life back together and write the novel he has been putting off. Having been forced to move back to his childhood home after the failure of his writing career, Nathan stumbled upon mysterious powers during a night out with his childhood friend Marshall.
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Issue 3 leverages reader’s expectations of the superhero genre to elevate the series with an inventive display of what comics as a medium can do. The superhero elements have felt fresh with the injection of the millennial experience as well as influence from Japanese tokusatsu.
Where similar books like Spider-Man and Invincible are coming of age stories dealing with the travails of high school, Radiant Black follows the struggles of 30-something Nathan Burnett, dealing with familiar millennial struggles like student debt, the failure of grand dreams of youth, and moving back in with parents. The first two issues of Radiant Black, the new superhero series from Image Comics by previous Nightwing and Power Rangers writer Kyle Higgins and artist Marcelo Costa, presented a new spin on the familiar everyman superhero concept.
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