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For a licensed property, Micronauts have been pretty lucky. The original series benefited greatly from the talents of Michael Golden, making it a classic of seventies comics.

There's a trilogy of paperback novels that I have, but haven't yet read.

And now there's the more recent series by Cullen Bunn. How'd he do? Pretty well, I'd say.

Unlike later toylines GI Joe and Transformers, Micronauts doesn't have a built-in back story or even characters. New creators are free to interpret the weird world of the Micronauts as they see fit.

This is a benefit for new readers. There's no need to be aware of anything about the Micronauts previous adventure to jump in here.

Micronauts remains pure sci-fi adventure, along the lines of Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica. It seems there is a civil war going on between the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Science while a phenomena known as the entropy storm is wiping out entire planets. Into this steps our Pharoid hero Han Solo. I mean... TBH I can't remember his name. And that is the problem this series has. While the story itself is fun and interesting and it's great to see a new spin put on familiar names (Acroyear, Biotron, Microtron and Baron Karza are all here, but not necessarily as you remember them), the characters themselves are a bit generic. Karza is easily the most interesting.

It's with a read. It really is a good series. But it's just a little too slight. Likely because Bunn knew he was a hired gun with a limited time. I really would have liked to see more depth, like the effort Mantlo and Golden put into the seventies series. That isn't here. But what's here is still good, even if it isn't Golden.