They’re Not Like Us #2 Review

Writer: Eric Stephenson/ Art: Simon Gane / Image Comics When I picked up the first issue of They’re Not Like Us from Image comics last month, I knew I had my hands on something special. The series opened up with a sense of mystery and all of a sudden you’re introduced to this group of special people with special powers under special circumstances. What makes this different than your usual super-powered teen comic book? It’s realness. They’re Not Like Us tells the story of a group of gifted people with a wide variety of mental abilities that vary in level of familiarity. Some have the ability to project images into the minds of others or listen to their thoughts. Others have somehow manipulated their mental abilities to give them what appears to be super-speed or a sense of invincibility. And, for right now, we just don’t have any idea what else there is out there. The character that’s stuck out to me most goes by the moniker of “The Voice,” the mastermind of this group of society’s most gifted rejects. To get a good grasp on what this character appears to be about so far, imagine taking the extremist tendencies and “it’s me against the world” sensibilities of X-Men’s Magneto and combine them with the abilities and inclination to teach of Professor Charles Xavier.

The first issue set the groundwork of explaining who these people are and how they got there. The second issue focuses on displaying what they actually do. Maintaining the same sense of mystery from the first issue,…