Wonder why comics are not as fun as the old days? Wonder no longer with Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz’s The R.I.G.H.T. Project! This comic book was part of their Indiegogo fund raising and printed by Apex Comics Group. The publisher is taking comic books to the next level with NFTs and digital collectibles. Tom DeFalco during his time at Marvel Comics was part of the team that brought over Hasbro products like G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and Transformers, developing them, and helping to produce comics. He became Marvel’s editior-in-chief in 1987 until 1994. He co-created with Ron Frenz, Thunderstrike, Erik Masterson wielded the Asgardian mace introduced in Thor #391 (1988), then the New Warriors in Thor #412 (1989), and the very popular Spider-Girl who first appeared in What If #105 (1998).
For Image Comics, DeFalco co-created with artist Ron Lim, Randy O’Donnell is the M@N #1 (2001) which also had a Mr. Right #0 back-up with Frenz. The R.I.G.H.T. Project has a classic cover with the super hero, Mr. Right, looming on a tight rope above rooftops with armed gunmen on the right, left, and beneath him with the villain, Big Brother, raging at him. Just pure action and some nifty dialogue. The first story, “Do the R.I.G.H.T. Thing!”, opens with a Kirby inspired pose of the hero smashing into a crowd of tough guys! The team of DeFalco and Frenz also features the inks of Sal Buscema, also a veteran inker and penciller from Marvel Comics. The dialogue is from the shouts by Carlyn, a red-haired teen girl with glasses, to the boy, Jeff Lopez working on a lab’s computer. It happens to be her uncle’s holo program. He mentions that he copied it to a thumbdrive. I think that must be some high data portable drive.
Carlyn’s uncle, Dr. Dexter Click, has arrived into the lab with visitors. This includes his assistant Apollo, Agent Honor Freeman, a government official from Washington, D.C., and a tall man in shades, Big Brother. The project is in development and Big Brother notes that Dexter works for Hope Industries. He notes that his nice lives at the lab and that Jeff is helpful. Dexter activates the Reality Integrated Gravitic Hologram Technology (R.I.G.H.T.) that forms a man with a red uniform and hat. He tosses a tech sphere to the hologram who catches it, but then drops it. Dexter can’t maintain the gravity with the hologram man. Kinda like Star Trek's Holodeck with the safety protocols disable like in Star Trek: First Contact (1996). Honor notes that the military use of the program could help develop the technology. Dexter refuses and Big Brother orders a lockdown. Instantly, armed, black ops soldiers enter the lab and orders all equipment to be secured.
Honor argues with Big Brother, but he takes charge of the operation. The kids manage to reach a storage room. Jeff blames Hope for the takeover since he owns most of the city called New Hope. One of Big Brother’s men has checked the computer and notices that a copy was made of the program. Big Brother knows that it was the kids. The black ops soldiers enter the room and rush past Carlyn, Jeff is headed up to the roof using the stairwell. Jeff is desperately wanting R.I.G.H.T. to save him from the soldiers holding the control module. Mr. Right suddenly appears and slams full body into five of the soldiers! He is a super hero controlled by a kid! This is a fun idea kinda like Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot mixed with Shazam! Mr. Right goes into a somersault, the Digital Daredevil, and slams back into the soldiers! He mentions that he has a connection, a psychic link, with Jeff whom he calls Player One.
Mr. Right leaps over two more soldiers trying to grab him. Another gets a lucky hit with his rifle butt to Mr. Right’s helmeted head. Jeff feels the pain of the strike, but a right cross knocks down the gunman. Jeff recovers and Mr. Right goes smashing into the lab window. The hero flies into a kick that knocks soldiers holding computers. Big Brother decides to go hand-to-hand, but ends up breaking more computers. It looks like just a start of the super hero adventures. There is another story focusing on a murder mystery at a wrestling ring at the Hardover Continental Wrestling Foundation put on by the owner Imperious Rex. It involves a strange wrestler with two heads, Double-Trouble. Jeff's mother, Sara, is a police detective given a tip about the crime. Plus, a chance encounter with Randy O’Donnell is the M@N with art by Ron Lim. The story and art is just the superhero The R.I.G.H.T. Project gives three, action packed stories of pure superhero fun!
Five Control Modules out of Five!
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