Title: Genius #1 (Genius #1)
Author: Marc Bernardin, Adam Freeman, Afua Richardson (Ilustrator )
Release Date: August 14, 2014Publisher: Image
Source: Bought
Rating: ★★★★
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GENIUS: ISSUES 1-5, WEEKLY THROUGHOUT AUGUST The Winner of Top Cow's Pilot Season makes its triumphant return to print! What if the greatest military mind of our generation was born to a people who are already supremely conditioned to wage war, who know nothing but violence since birth, and must continually adapt to new predators in order to survive? What if the second coming of Alexander the Great, of Genghis Khan, of Napoleon, of Patton
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My Review:
This first issue of the five issue series explores the idea that, what if the greatest military mind of our generation was from a poor, crime filled area like South Central, L.A.?
This first issue of the five issue series explores the idea that, what if the greatest military mind of our generation was from a poor, crime filled area like South Central, L.A.?
This issue is tightly packed and we get introduced to our protagonist and antagonist fairly quickly with narration splitting between Detective Reggie, who's trying to find out who 'Suspect Zero' is, the person uniting the gangs and starting war with the police, and Destiny, 'Suspect Zero' herself, who is leading everyone in her neighborhood together.
We get flashbacks of who Destiny's parents were and her early childhood intertwined with the detective's narration of how all the past crimes of the past few years have a particular pattern of being connected to Suspect Zero. It was clever and saved us a lot of time while keeping its pace throughout the issue.
I'm interested to see how this series will unfold since it's only five issues and what the ending will be for Destiny, our military genius hero.
-Amanda Leon
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