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Children of the Atom (2021)
Children of the Atom #3
ORIGIN REVEALED! Who are the X-Men's sidekicks behind the masks? Meanwhile, a brand new alternative medicine is changing lives at school, but who's recruiting the victims – I mean patients?
25 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 12, 2021
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May 20, 2021
Temevo che si sarebbe riproposto il canovaccio del secondo numero, ma per fortuna intervengono nuovi elementi.
Che non sono la famiglia o i problemi di fiducia di Carmen, ma per prima cosa la separazione del gruppo (tutti vanno a cena da Cole tranne Carmen, che resta a casa apparentemente a cucire) e poi, sopratutto con una serie di flashback inizialmente quasi incomprensibili, che cominciano a gettare luce sul mistero di questi ragazzi.
Va detto che, se fosse tutto come si intuisce da questo terzo numero, la cosa sarebbe abbastanza banale (e prevedibile, anche se nei numeri scorsi si escludeva questa possibilità perché loro stessi si definivano mutanti, no?). Ma gruppo di ragazzini, astronave aliena, viaggio nello spazio, esplosione e rientro sulla Terra. Tutto sembra puntare in questa direzione, compresa Carmen che racconta come alla fine sia diventata speciale, come voleva, e ora vorrebbe poter tornare indietro.
Non sorprende neanche quello che scopriamo su quanto successo a Cole, anche se la sua reazione alle domande dei ragazzi riguardo i suoi "tessuti mutanti" lascia perplessi.
Interessante invece la domanda in sé, non banale da parte dei ragazzini.
Ora speriamo il quarto numero riparta da dove è finito questo, cioè da Carmen in preda al dolore e con il racconto di quel che è successo in passato che ancora deve finire.
Che non sono la famiglia o i problemi di fiducia di Carmen, ma per prima cosa la separazione del gruppo (tutti vanno a cena da Cole tranne Carmen, che resta a casa apparentemente a cucire) e poi, sopratutto con una serie di flashback inizialmente quasi incomprensibili, che cominciano a gettare luce sul mistero di questi ragazzi.
Va detto che, se fosse tutto come si intuisce da questo terzo numero, la cosa sarebbe abbastanza banale (e prevedibile, anche se nei numeri scorsi si escludeva questa possibilità perché loro stessi si definivano mutanti, no?). Ma gruppo di ragazzini, astronave aliena, viaggio nello spazio, esplosione e rientro sulla Terra. Tutto sembra puntare in questa direzione, compresa Carmen che racconta come alla fine sia diventata speciale, come voleva, e ora vorrebbe poter tornare indietro.
Non sorprende neanche quello che scopriamo su quanto successo a Cole, anche se la sua reazione alle domande dei ragazzi riguardo i suoi "tessuti mutanti" lascia perplessi.
Interessante invece la domanda in sé, non banale da parte dei ragazzini.
Ora speriamo il quarto numero riparta da dove è finito questo, cioè da Carmen in preda al dolore e con il racconto di quel che è successo in passato che ancora deve finire.
May 13, 2021
I'll chuck this comic a bone and say the art is good, otherwise shit (and it is shit) like this makes me hate my obsessive desire to complete things I start.
Carmen is creeping on someone she doesn't have, I mean girls a creep but, and this has happened with other titles since relaunch, because it's a girl creeping we are cool with that...
Anyhow her being so insecure that she can't be happy with friendship, she must be top and centre of everyone's life? How self centered is that? Recognise that being part of others live and sharing friendships is a special thing. Horrible character.
The one interesting tidbit in this shit show was about Real Unity and them combining human/mutant genes. That could have interesting impacts on the wider arcs, especially if they can access the Krakoa gates. But a whole comic, never mind series for that? No.
Final thought, they were on a spaceship? Yeah of course, why not in a stupid comic just magic them into space with no explanation just to allow the creep to be creepy.
Awful series, I hate my completionist nature.
Carmen is creeping on someone she doesn't have, I mean girls a creep but, and this has happened with other titles since relaunch, because it's a girl creeping we are cool with that...
Anyhow her being so insecure that she can't be happy with friendship, she must be top and centre of everyone's life? How self centered is that? Recognise that being part of others live and sharing friendships is a special thing. Horrible character.
The one interesting tidbit in this shit show was about Real Unity and them combining human/mutant genes. That could have interesting impacts on the wider arcs, especially if they can access the Krakoa gates. But a whole comic, never mind series for that? No.
Final thought, they were on a spaceship? Yeah of course, why not in a stupid comic just magic them into space with no explanation just to allow the creep to be creepy.
Awful series, I hate my completionist nature.
May 14, 2021
I. Despise. This. Title.
I'm only reading this out of a sense of loyalty to the X-books. Or, out of a desire to complete what I start. But I'm only hate-reading at this point.
Again, this issue followed a particular member of this band of teenage strangers. This time it was about the one who goes by "Gimmick." She has massive self-esteem problems and impostor syndrome. She apparently is a lesbian, based off the fact she is crushing on Buddy, and it was suggested that she would need to let down a guy who was interested in her. You would think Buddy was the lesbian, based off her short hair and habit of dressing in dress shirts and bow ties. But we learned in issue #1 that she is crushing on a boy, so...
At least in this issue there was some progress in answering the question of how these teens got access to powers. Maybe. I honestly don't know, because of the time jumps. And I don't care. I don't care about these people at all.
I'm only reading this out of a sense of loyalty to the X-books. Or, out of a desire to complete what I start. But I'm only hate-reading at this point.
Again, this issue followed a particular member of this band of teenage strangers. This time it was about the one who goes by "Gimmick." She has massive self-esteem problems and impostor syndrome. She apparently is a lesbian, based off the fact she is crushing on Buddy, and it was suggested that she would need to let down a guy who was interested in her. You would think Buddy was the lesbian, based off her short hair and habit of dressing in dress shirts and bow ties. But we learned in issue #1 that she is crushing on a boy, so...
At least in this issue there was some progress in answering the question of how these teens got access to powers. Maybe. I honestly don't know, because of the time jumps. And I don't care. I don't care about these people at all.
June 8, 2021
Ooh, finally a bit more tension other than the kids can't get through the gates. There's the Gorilla dude, Cole's mystery illness & cure, Carmen's extra specialness. The glimpses of a past event involving a space ship.
I have a feeling that this will read better as one solid read, rather than divided into these single issues (I wish comics companies would just pivot to OGNs, for Pete's sake), so I'm hanging in there for the first complete arc, maybe 5 or 6 issues.
I have a feeling that this will read better as one solid read, rather than divided into these single issues (I wish comics companies would just pivot to OGNs, for Pete's sake), so I'm hanging in there for the first complete arc, maybe 5 or 6 issues.
June 26, 2021
- The queer and ethnic representation in this single comic book issue is just wawawawawaaaaaa 🖤🥺🖤
- Loving the change of artist and colorist too! The previous two books weren't bad, but this one definitely looks good. The faces and expressions, the figures / anatomy. They look natural and more realistic. I hope Marvel keeps Paco Medina for CotA forever!
- I'm definitely growing more interested in each main character as they get their own turn to narrate the story. Carmen had been lowkey in the previous books and here she gets a personal, sympathetic spotlight on her and I find her a likeable character. Sure, some of her concerns are your typical teenager stuff but don't teenagers deserve to have their stories told too?
- Not sure if Cole is a side character for now or if he'll be permanent, but his story is starting to intrigue me. So he's half-mutant? But does he accept that identity for himself or does he reject it? Is he going to be the group's archvillain?
- Whatever happened to Carmen in space… is looking like it's gonna be an episode of Fringe (remember that weird bat-porcupine monster hybrid creature that caused a plane crash in Season 1? You'll know if you're a Fringe fan) and that shit is Right. Up. My. Alley. Yassss bring it on baby.
- Loving the change of artist and colorist too! The previous two books weren't bad, but this one definitely looks good. The faces and expressions, the figures / anatomy. They look natural and more realistic. I hope Marvel keeps Paco Medina for CotA forever!
- I'm definitely growing more interested in each main character as they get their own turn to narrate the story. Carmen had been lowkey in the previous books and here she gets a personal, sympathetic spotlight on her and I find her a likeable character. Sure, some of her concerns are your typical teenager stuff but don't teenagers deserve to have their stories told too?
- Not sure if Cole is a side character for now or if he'll be permanent, but his story is starting to intrigue me. So he's half-mutant? But does he accept that identity for himself or does he reject it? Is he going to be the group's archvillain?
- Whatever happened to Carmen in space… is looking like it's gonna be an episode of Fringe (remember that weird bat-porcupine monster hybrid creature that caused a plane crash in Season 1? You'll know if you're a Fringe fan) and that shit is Right. Up. My. Alley. Yassss bring it on baby.
May 13, 2021
What...what is going on? This isn't bad, exactly, I'm just confused...
So, we sort of get the origin of the Children of the Atom here...but we're honestly none the wiser. They somehow ended up on a spaceship, which presumably took them up into space, and then was going to explode and so they got into some escape pods and crash landed back on earth. Is...is this how they got their powers? I feel like there's a BIG gap here. I mean, that's probably intentional, but it makes for a deeply unsatisfying read.
Meanwhile, in the present, all of the team except for Carmen go to a friend's house for dinner, where they learn that friend had mutant tissue fused with his own to save his life. And when one of them asks if that means he can use the Krakoan gates he gets angry and throws them out. The whole scene is very...odd...
And while this is going on Carmen is at home transforming into...what? A Brood, maybe? Is that the source of their powers? Are they all Brood hosts?
What is going on?!?!?
So, we sort of get the origin of the Children of the Atom here...but we're honestly none the wiser. They somehow ended up on a spaceship, which presumably took them up into space, and then was going to explode and so they got into some escape pods and crash landed back on earth. Is...is this how they got their powers? I feel like there's a BIG gap here. I mean, that's probably intentional, but it makes for a deeply unsatisfying read.
Meanwhile, in the present, all of the team except for Carmen go to a friend's house for dinner, where they learn that friend had mutant tissue fused with his own to save his life. And when one of them asks if that means he can use the Krakoan gates he gets angry and throws them out. The whole scene is very...odd...
And while this is going on Carmen is at home transforming into...what? A Brood, maybe? Is that the source of their powers? Are they all Brood hosts?
What is going on?!?!?
May 18, 2021
The art is good. The rest is underwhelming. Not sure how many more issues I'll last with this title.
June 7, 2021
Readers when it comes to Jonathan Hickman: I know it's weird and there are so many questions raised, but he's a slow burn and long haul writer, so just stay with it for 75 issues and it will be worth it.
Readers when it comes to Vita Ayala (for some reason): Why isn't this giving me everything I want right now? I don't like not knowing things and being confused. Only Jonathan Hickman is allowed to do that. And Jason Aron. And Matt Fraction. And Ed Brubaker. And Tim King. And -- oh, I see what's happening now.
This title is great. We're only three issues in, Ayal focuses on the characters who are outsiders to the outsiders. That's like being kicked out of Disneyland and then out of California completely. Let this series grow!
Readers when it comes to Vita Ayala (for some reason): Why isn't this giving me everything I want right now? I don't like not knowing things and being confused. Only Jonathan Hickman is allowed to do that. And Jason Aron. And Matt Fraction. And Ed Brubaker. And Tim King. And -- oh, I see what's happening now.
This title is great. We're only three issues in, Ayal focuses on the characters who are outsiders to the outsiders. That's like being kicked out of Disneyland and then out of California completely. Let this series grow!
May 16, 2021
Finally some clarification.
But more importantly, this issue head a lot of hearUt. Carmen expressed feelings that a lot of teenage girls and oldest children feel. It more specifically I felt ass teenage girl and eldest child. Always the helper, praised for showing responsibility that was never soaped to be mine... Anyways...
It seems like the kids gets their powers from alien technology. The scenes with Cole is spot on for the way the group is acting about mutants. And the huge guy (did you see how big his hands are?) from Real Unity is ominous.
I'm more interested in this story than I've ever been.
But more importantly, this issue head a lot of hearUt. Carmen expressed feelings that a lot of teenage girls and oldest children feel. It more specifically I felt ass teenage girl and eldest child. Always the helper, praised for showing responsibility that was never soaped to be mine... Anyways...
It seems like the kids gets their powers from alien technology. The scenes with Cole is spot on for the way the group is acting about mutants. And the huge guy (did you see how big his hands are?) from Real Unity is ominous.
I'm more interested in this story than I've ever been.
April 11, 2024
Well I guess we have most of our answer. Not very satisfying yet though. And the art difference in how Cole is drawn (and colored) between issues 2 and 3 was really jarring.
June 23, 2026
It felt like too little happened this issue
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