Rating: 4/5
Ordinary is about a man with no powers in a world where everyone has powers. The blurb makes it sound like the people with powers have been around for a while, but it comes on rather suddenly.
There is a group working to find out if there is a way to reverse the process. Meanwhile, Michael Fisher sets out on a quest to find his son, who he hasn't seen in quite some time because his divorced wife has custody. Michael is a plumber and doesn't really have anything going for him. This is driven home from the very beginning.
Some of the "powers" that people acquire are amusing, albeit not very useful. The illustrations are great for displaying the different powers and what would happen if everyone could suddenly do something special.
I like the take the creators took on this story. They made an effort to keep the possibility of gaining powers fairly realistic. The story is also contained, which is nice to see within the superhero genre. I would have liked more development for some of the characters and the world in general. An extra 20 pages could have helped here.
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