Prodigy #3

Prodigy (Single Issues)

by Mark Millar (Writer), Rafael Albuquerque (Illustrator), Marcelo Maiolo (Colorist)

Crane’s quest takes him across the Himalayas and into a sunken temple in the Indian Ocean, where he battles pirates and great white sharks to find clues about the missing scroll. But the evil lying in wait is getting stronger.

Genres: Comics

27 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 6, 2019

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 2 out of 5]

(B-) 68% | Satisfactory
Notes: Read in trade paperback. Collective review for issues #1-6 can be found here: Prodigy: The Evil Earth.

[Shannon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolute garbage.

[Stacy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Last issue was rough for me, with how extreme the villains got. This issue won me back a bunch with some of our protagonists' solutions being really sweet. It's almost like last issue took all the humanity out of the antagonists, and we've got an equal measure of humanity/wholesomeness now in Crane.

I'm waiting for the plot-device to drop, though. There's continuously cool scenes (now we're on a train fighting gunmen! Why here and now? Because it's cool. And yes. Yes it truly is cool...) but at some point we're going to need a twist that's more than "IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEM vs IMPOSSIBLE SOLUTION TO DELIGHT OUR VIEWERS" and get to the heart of our hero or villains.

Yet if this were a movie, I'd still watch it just because a lot of how we'll get there is super cool. I just think Millar's a really talented writer and if the gimmick is "our bad guys are SO BAD HERE'S WHY THEY'RE THE BADDEST" I think that's a bit...unnecessary? Wasteful? Boring? I want to see Crane go up against complex villains that aren't just secret-aliens who hunt orphans for sport.

Though in all fairness, we're only three issues in and a lot can change with our perceptions. And that's part of why this read is so exciting. Like Crane's obsession with risks, the climax of this series could pay off in such a cool way...or fall short into cliche/disappointment.

40/50

[RG · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty avg

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you haven't started reading Prodigy, you are missing out! It is an action packed story with great characters.

[Aldo Haegemans · Rating 3 out of 5]

Felt rushed

[Andy Hickman · Rating 3 out of 5]

#3 – “BURN IN HELL, PROFESSOR CRANE!”