After another comic book enthusiast at Gauntlet Comic Books recommended PRODIGY #1 to me, I am here to tell you it’s an amazing book. The premise is simple and the story is engaging right from the get-go. As Image Comics explains on their website, Edison Crane is “a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, genius composer, Olympic athlete, an expert in the occult, and now international governments are calling on him to fix problems they just can’t handle.”
Early in the origin portion of this comic, Edison is beaten by bullies. After, he watches Enter The Dragon, a Bruce Lee film. Just by observing Lee’s movements, he becomes a master of Kung Fu and fights off his bullies the very next day. Later in Cran’es origin story, his father disowns him and divests him of an inheritance, leaving him only a penny. Edison tells his father that with that penny, he will become a multi-million dollar business owner in a year — and that’s exactly what happens. In an attempt to curve his borden Edison starts taking stunt request from elementary schoolers who write in their ideas to him so throughout the comic he’s also organizing his next stunt which is to jump over the grand canyon on a motorcycle that mid flight burst into flames and he lands on his feet.
I can’t make all this up, people…but Mark Millar certainly can. This book is so amazing and entirely worth adding to your collection. Props to Millar and Albuquerque for their fantastic work on this mini series. I expect to see it on Netflix soon; the premise is just so undeniably fun!
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