FOUR DECADES AFTER THEY first collaborated on the adventures of Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie Power, Louise "Weezie" Simonson and June Brigman are returning to tell another tale of the superheroic siblings. Billed as a "retro series", Into The Storm follows on from the continuity of the original Power Pack, which ran for 62 issues from 1984 to 1990.
"This story takes place a year after Power Pack first got their powers, opening at the restored beach house where it all began, and Alex has just had his thirteenth birthday in a recent one-shot comic, so he’s officially a teenager,” says Simonson, referring to 2019’s Power Pack Grow Up. “It’s been especially fun to focus on Power Pack’s early years since some of the Pack’s adventures as older kids have been covered elsewhere.”
“In honour of Power Pack’s fortieth, Marvel wanted to get the band back together,” adds Brigman. “So we went back to the ’80s, and pretty much picked up right where we left off.” With Simonson joining Marvel in 1980,
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