Prodigy Library Edition

Prodigy #1-3

by Mark Millar (Writer), Rafael Albuquerque (Illustrator), Matteo Buffagni (Illustrator)

Described by Mark Millar as the best character he’s ever created, Edison Crane is Tony Stark, Indiana Jones, Sherlock Holmes and James Bond all rolled into one.

Imagine you were brilliant at everything. You’re the world’s fastest man, most ground-breaking entrepreneur, a prolific writer, adventurer, master of martial arts and expert on the occult. There is literally nothing you cannot do and you only need to spend ten minutes every day running your multi-billion-dollar business empire. So how do you spend your free time?

Doctor Edison Crane is the man Presidents and Prime Ministers call when there’s a problem they can’t handle, and his adventures here cover everything from the terrifying real reason the Hadron Collider was built, to the lost city of Shangri-La hidden in the Himalayas, to the alien slave colonies on Mars Edison’s father was involved with on behalf of the American secret space program.

Collecting all three volumes of the Prodigy trilogy and featuring art by some of the greatest in modern comics.

For mature audiences.

Genres: Comics

480 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 6, 2026

About the author

Mark Millar is the New York Times best-selling writer of Wanted, the Kick-Ass series, The Secret Service, Jupiter’s Legacy, Jupiter’s Circle, Nemesis, Superior, Super Crooks, American Jesus, MPH, Starlight, and Chrononauts. Wanted, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, and The Secret Service (as Kingsman: The Secret Service) have been adapted into feature films, and Nemesis, Superior, Starlight, War Heroes, Jupiter’s Legacy and Chrononauts are in development at major studios.

His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades.

Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.

Reviews

[Jayson · Rating 3 out of 5]

(B) 72% | More than Satisfactory
Notes: Review pending re-read. Individual reviews for included volumes can be found here:
- Prodigy: The Evil Earth
- Prodigy: The Icarus Society
- Prodigy: Slaves of Mars

[Chr*s Browning]

Reading a Millar comic is kind of like buying a big soda and a bag of candy from the gas station and guzzling it all in one sitting - fun, but very little nutritional value and as you get older, it doesn’t bring the same pleasure. Still, this is fun enough in a stupid way, at least for the first two arcs - the art takes a nosedive after Albuquerque’s designs in the first six issues and the stories are never that complex - it’s all evil smart guy outsmarts good smart guy but wait … the good guy actually outsmarted him months ago! This happens like twelve times. Third arc is also pretty dire, running the same old same old but with added Family Drama (and also it seems to retcon the first arc’s portrayal of Crane coming from a mixed race family and makes his dad Black when he definitely wasn’t colored that way in the early issues) and a “twist” ending that mostly feels like Millar wrote himself into a hole and had to jump out right quick. Decent entertainment though, makes sense Netflix was all over this back when they had money to throw at established creators beyond Harlan Coben and the Duffers.

[Chalupa Batman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cool read...a modern day Doc Savage.

[Niche · Rating 2 out of 5]

Super mega-rich genius and hyper-capable to the point of being a silly caricature, Edison Crane, saves the world. This edition collects all three volumes of the series, which made it hard to rate. While I liked the first one, in a comedic and cartoonish sense, I liked each subsequent one less and less.

The first involves what feels like a satirical cabal of wealthy sociopaths that have run the world since their first evil progenitor came from evil parallel earth to conquer this one. It's as campy as the Star Trek mirror-verse and I found that campiness and general over-the-top silliness kind of fun.

The second story involves a society of rich, genius rivals and a hunt for Shangri-La involving a secret hyperborean ancient hi-tech civilization. I was apathetic.

The third brings in Edison's prior unmentioned also-genius brother and secret-genius father as they deal with Martian's trying to enslave the earth... I kind of found the family drama and story itself dull and annoying.