The cover spotlights the Sisters Scarlet, Masquerade, Lady Satan and the first masked woman in comic books, the Woman in Red. Ross and Krueger cover a lot of ground in the latest issue of Project Superpowers but in this case, the cover does not lie. The Sisters are the stars.

The ladies have a confab in the Pentagon's break room and Masquerade reveals her fears to her female comrades. The solidarity of this team is a winning combination and I like how Salazar's and Nunes' art and the writing combine to give them different personalities. Masquerade is the most introspective, Lady Satan is the toughest, and the Woman in Red bears an eerie elegance.

In addition to further carving out the Superpowers Universe, the scene very subtly foreshadows the twist regarding the psychopathic Captain Future. Krueger and Ross really came up with a doozy for Future. They take advantage of the reader's expectations and how pop culture has characterized a well known character. Then, they go straight back to the origins and relate these beginnings in the cloth of the superhero for a surprising reveal.

Before that reveal, Lady Satan, Woman in Red, and Masquerade band together to stop Future in his tracks. More scenes like this one and the book could have earned five bullets, but unfortunately, Black Terror's meeting with Green Lama is a little too chatty and repetitive. The scenes with the Inheritors go nowhere, and neither do those with Death-Defying Devil and the Ghost. On the bright side, these scenarios only dull the book for a few pages. Once the battle against Captain Future begins Project Superpowers moves like lightning.

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