Children of the Atom #3/ Review/Spoilers

[jwatson]

Ok so i waited for someone to do one so here i go. I won't respond to the thread like last time because i feel when i review i shouldn't give my opinion beyond that which will be hard lol, but i feel this issue deserves a review.

Like in issue two Vita does AMAZING character work but this time we focus on Carmen Maria Cruz.

The story basically follows Carmen and we find out a lot of people depend on her and she wants nothing more than to be accepted not for being special but just for being Carmen and though she is, she just doesn't see it. She is a chracter imo, that is the definition of a bleeding heart, and that's not always a bad thing.

We see the team go into space which is one of the main stories and really get a feel for their dynamic as the ship is about to crash and they have to get into escape pods. We find out here Carmen is very much in love with Beatrice who is either obtuse or not sure Carmen feels the way she thinks she does imo. There is a confession but unfortunately due to the circumstances it goes unheard.

The team gets together in present day and want to go see cole who is feeling better, Carmen decides not to go because she is feeling sick and so the other members go and Cole is basically mixed now, Human/Mutant. While he doesn't have an x-gene and is still considered human he may have abilities now much like what was done to Dominio, so the plot has been introduced for healing human sickness by splicing mutant DNA into humans. Cole get's angry feeling like the other kids don't really like him because of their mutant obsession and how they stopped coming to see him when he was sich which was just too painful for some of them, but he doesn't appreciate it and wants them to leave. The whole time he is saying that he is sweating and looking as though he is going through some sort of trauma.

Cole thinks the other kids are only coming to see him because they think they can use him to trick the Krakoan gates because of the spliced mutant dna he has.
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That trauma and that scene is matched by what is happening to Carmen. Carmen who is there for everybody, who helps everyone and apparently cole has a crush on, is alone on her bathroom floor with only her cat watching her as she sweats and gasps, veins popping everywhere. It is hinted she is Becoming, which is the term for manifesting mutants.

Carmen is basically the heart of the team, she makes their costumes, she is a pleaser in the most innocent sense of the word.

There was just a lot here, i don't and didn't even know how to review it but it was an amazing read and an emotional read. 10/10 for me. This is probably a horrible review but imo this is what high concept modern comics is suppose to be.

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