Brotherhood

Brotherhood was the victim of bad luck. A book about a mutant terrorist organization trying to start a world-wide revolution, it came out just a few months before 9/11 and was cancelled just a few months after. I quite liked the first story-arc: a young mutant high-school student named Mike Asher is the target of a recruitment attempt by the Brotherhood, while unbeknownst to everyone, a pair of picked-on kids are planning a Columbine-style massacre. It's very tense, well-written stuff. The artwork takes a bit getting used to (very dark and sketchy) but fits the mood of violence and impending anarchy well. The second story arc is about a spoiled mutant girl whose industrialist father has done everything possible to hide the fact from the public eye. It has some nice twists and more revelations about the Brotherhood's leadership and organization. The last few issues seem rushed as cancellation loomed, but at least the writer managed to give the series a firm (and very bloody) ending. I think Brotherhood was a book with a lot of potential--we tend to only see underground revolutionary organizations as villians of gradual, reform-minded organizations like the X-Men, so this was a nice attempt to tell some stories about characters who are not heroes in the traditional sense. Had it come out a few years earlier or later, it might have had more success.