Genius #5

Genius #5

by Adam Freeman, Marc Bernardin, Afua Richardson (Illustrator)

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...what if it was a teenaged girl from South Central, L.A. named Destiny? And what if she decides to secede three blocks of the ‘Hood from the Union? Who is going to take it back from her and her army of gangbangers? Who CAN? From writers MARC BERNARDIN and ADAM FREEMAN (Alphas, X-Men Origins: Nightcrawler, The Authority, The Highwaymen) and rising-star artist AFUA RICHARDSON comes a harrowing, action-packed tale of a city that declares war on a brilliant young woman pushed to the edge.

Genres: Comics

26 pages, Paperback

First published August 27, 2014

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Reviews

[Gavin · Rating 1 out of 5]

And that's it?

Fuck me. I'm dumber for having read that. I should have stopped after #1 was so bad....ugh.
Luckily I didn't waste much time, on a Saturday lazy afternoon.

Destiny surrenders, after taking on the National Guard. She leaves all her people to die, apparently this means she's super smart? Not much of a leader, compares herself to Custer, Leonidas, Shaka Zulu, but they actually did something. She just killed cops and bangers and did property damage, killed most of the people she knew in her sad pathetic life.

And the govt just puts her to work, studying to become an even greater weapon at some point.

Wow. Who punked me? Anne? Not cool.

[Albert Yates · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall the series was a pretty good read. Violence runs through gang life and making a stand against the police and their army will only lead to death and destruction.

I'm finding it hard to believe in the ending though. Who takes a criminal mastermind via surrender, after abandoning her team, puts her in an unknown government agency instead of a coffin? I feel as though if this were real life the captain, or anyone standing around would have "accidentally" discharged their weapon into her chest.