Augie De Blieck, Jr. takes an in-depth look Planet of the Capes in today's Pipeline. Some of the great pull-quotes you'll no doubt be seeing on future editions of the book include: "It's funny, but once you've seen through it all or read the cheat sheet on it, the dialogue goes from being slightly hokey comic book dialogue to sledgehammer-in-its-subtlety comics industry commentary." and "Planet of the Capes is a challenging book. It's like nothing else the publisher has ever sent to store shelves. Heck, it even has a color sequence in the middle of it. But if you stick with it and pick up on the hints Young lays out, it's a satisfying read with a devilish smile behind it." Go read the rest of it, to see words like "surreal" and "smart" and "narcissist."

Pop Culture Gadabout Bill Sherman takes a swing at the Capes, too, and remains guardedly optimistic. This one was great: "What Young has done, in effect, is create a book that's a cautionary to all us fannish comic geeks attempting to foist Really Good Superhero Comics on non-fans. For readers unfamiliar with the particular company universes that feature each character, I suspect that many of our prized graphic novels read a lot like Capes: as a succession of random events acted out by cardboard figures whose motivations are at best opaque, at worst non-existent. Yet to superhero junkies with a sense of history, the characters in Capes also follow the general path of the genre itself. From simple crimefighting stories to tales of alienated monsters to space opera to demi-realism (where the physics-straining rules of earlier comics no longer consistently hold; where a dam that's held together by superhand one time can no longer keep from crumbling apart) to the rise of psychotic quasi-heroes, Capes charts the devolution of Mainstream Comic Book Hotness – and does so with a knowing wink to the cued-in reader."

Johnny Bacardi, man amongst men, even links over to Bill and reassesses his original take on the book due to Bill's review. It's like an ABC Afterschool Special, here, on the Internet today.