Children of the Atom #1 Review/Spoiler - Old Enough to Know Better

[vasir12]

There are enough used folks in Marvel to pick 5 who develop powers or use technology (mind everyone Night Thrasher made weapons for depower mutants too once) versus making new ones.

Spyder from Wonder-Man
Troop from Luke Cage
Wildstreak from Fantastic Four
Nightcat from Spider-Man
Various folks from New Universe since Blurr somehow lived.
Various folks from Ultimate Marvel

Yes, you can find 5 randoms, but the point of the story is we don't know what/who these guys are at all. Changing the characters fundamentally changes the story and by that point why? Cause a few people don't like new characters? Because they feel they're taking up spots for their preferred hero that wouldn't have been used anyway?

[Rnap22]

Kitty cant pass through the gates, yet she's still a mutant. I wonder if there will be a connection there

Kate doesn’t pass through, though. She literally hits a wall. Humans just pass through to the other side of the gate. The only ones are Horticulture that are able to hijack the gates (though I think Beast took care of that after he stole their tech.)

Not showing up on Cerebro to me also screams “not mutants”. Untrained, I doubt Marvel Guy could block all of them from showing up.

[Bozack]

I'm not sure if I can read something with a character named Cyclops-Lass.

I was gonna try to give this a try but as soon as I opened the book and saw that name, I was done, son. Hell nah.

[Outburstz]

Honestly I am getting the suspicion that the original concept of this book was going to be about humans who through good deeds and showing their love and admiration for mutants were going to become mutants. Maybe through some tragedy or what not but non the less they were going to get the X gene.

The precedent is already there with Mr Sinister

[Rang10]

That's an issue with Krakoa. Not all mutants are even on Krakoa. That's like getting mad at all Jewish people for what Israel does or all Chinese people for what CCP does

The difference is that jewish and chinese aren't given immunity and free transit all over the world.

[Jwyatt]

The opening fight scene felt like a rejected bronze age Teen Titans issue from DC. There were some nods to it intentionally being written in a hokey way, but it's not any more entertaining when something corny knows it's corny.
The rest of the issue wasn't as bad, but it got off on a bad foot and never really recovered for me. Thumbs down.

[Kingdom X]

Yes, you can find 5 randoms, but the point of the story is we don't know what/who these guys are at all. Changing the characters fundamentally changes the story and by that point why? Cause a few people don't like new characters? Because they feel they're taking up spots for their preferred hero that wouldn't have been used anyway?

Right! I get the frustration of them “taking up space” if there were only two other X-books, but there are 10!

[Nyssane]

I thought this was a decent first issue. The art was pretty and Vita Ayala is very good at getting into her characters' heads and make you care. There's also a lot to love in the way she writes the X-Men proper.

Let's keep in mind that Vita Ayala uses they/them pronouns y'all.

[Devaishwarya]

I see some are getting "appropriation" mixed up with "appreciation"...again.

[Rang10]

Right! I get the frustration of them “taking up space” if there were only two other X-books, but there are 10!

And they keep using the same characters

[Outburstz]

The difference is that jewish and chinese aren't given immunity and free transit all over the world.

Did you miss the issue where Wakanda just destroyed the gates when Storm stole their sword?

[cam18]

read it not a fan.....would have much rather had that Moria book instead to be honest...

[Rang10]

Did you miss the issue where Wakanda just destroyed the gates when Storm stole their sword?

That is just one country, one of the three that didn't accepted krakoa deal.

[Sutekh]

You know whenever a writer gets a chance they'll cram Logan in no matter how unnecessary.

Can I imply shade in that none of these kids felt inspired to strap cutlery to their knuckles and be a Wolverine expy?

Or is that infer? I can never remember the difference.

[Outburstz]

That is just one country, one of the three that didn't accepted krakoa deal.

the point is if they wanted to destroy the gates the countries could but they want those drugs