Lei Ling is a super architect by day and a superhero by night - and sometimes the day too - called Aero. She has wind powers and not because she eats fast food constantly. The villainous Madame Huang threatens Aero’s hometown of Shanghai and only Aero can save it - and does, quite easily, often. What is this trash? Oh, another failed new Marvel superhero.
Literally the only reason I picked this up is because I’ve been playing Marvel Snap for the last few months (amazing game by the way, definitely recommend) and I’ve been using Aero a lot in my Magneto/disruptor deck and she’s so fun. Think you’re gonna Wong me or Galactus? Think again - Aero swoosh! So I thought I’d read an actual comic featuring the character to see what she’s about. You know what she’s about? Being extremely bland!
Given her newness, I thought this was definitely going to be an origin story but it’s not - she’s fully formed here with her powers, arch enemy, etc. Was all that set up in Greg Pak’s New Agents of Atlas where she also appeared? Maybe. I’ve not read it and probably never will.
She has wind powers though how or why and what its limits are is a mystery that maybe gets explored in other comics or the second volume that I won’t be picking up. Ditto her arch enemy Madame Huang - who is she, what does she want, why is she targeting Aero? Le shrug.
Aero fights buildings that have come to life as monsters for some reason - Madame Huang’s powers are similarly ill-defined to whatever the story needs them to be in the moment - and then fights some ice monsters. A city is descending from the sky for some reason but it doesn’t matter because it isn’t after a few issues for no reason.
In Aero’s personal life, her equally bland boyfriend wants to propose - but also thinks she may be Aero. Which makes sense, because she looks identical to her and is her. She wears Clark Kent glasses at work but when she’s on a date she doesn’t so… yeah. He’d have to be a moron not to connect the two. And why is it important that she keep her superhero identity a secret? No clue, except that’s a generic feature of most superhero comics.
And that’s Aero, Volume 1: Before the Storm through and through: generic. It couldn’t be more so - it’s the laziest, least imaginative, least original superhero comic you’ll ever read. Now that I think about it, a lot of great Marvel Snap cards don’t necessarily feature in great comics - Devil Dinosaur, Blue Marvel, Cerebro, Armor, Shang-Chi. So, while I recommend Marvel Snap, I wouldn’t recommend the comics a lot of the characters you’ll see in the game appear in, especially this instantly-forgettable Aero comic.
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