Hanna Washington is a 8-year-old girl with visions of becoming the superheroine Ant when she grows up. But, while it's not uncharacteristic for a young child to dream of superpowers, I suspect it's the mostly male creative team -- led by plotters Mario Gully, Sean O'Reilly and Ken F. Levin -- who decided Hanna's future self would be tremendously stacked and would be entirely nude under her skin-tight ant costume.

And, of course, her costume flakes off if her blood-sugar drops too low during a fight.

Suffice it to say, I don't think these guys did a very good job getting inside the head of their main character. And, while the plot -- Hanna retreats into her future fantasy world to cope with her own troubles involving mean kids at school, a deadbeat mom and a dad who's been arrested and charged with murder -- has possibilities, the writing team has no clue how to write believable dialogue. Also, the reaction of everyone who reads Hanna's journal is uniformly shocked into thinking it the greatest story ever told, which it clearly isn't.

I understand that, since the publication of this volume, Gully & Co. have left Arcana and are continuing the series under the Image umbrella. I hope editors there will hold them to a higher standard. As a suggestion, I'd urge the writing team to talk to an actual girl before trying to write about one.