They’re Not Like Us #5 Review

writer: Eric Stephenson / artist: Simon Gane / Image Comics The stage for They’re Not Like Us has been set. As of issue #5, we’ve met all of our key players and some are starting to make moves towards their end goals. This isn’t a book about a house of super-powered teenagers playing out a teen drama. No, it’s much more than that. From what we’ve seen so far, They’re Not Like Us is a study into what happens when characters make the choices to do what your typical comic book protagonist would scoff at. In my earlier reviews of They’re Not Like Us, I explained how one of the characters named The Voice appears to have Magneto’s motivations with Professor Charles Xavier’s abilities. Yes, that’s still fitting. But after reading issue #5 I understand that he’s also so much more. This issue brought us in the loop on the origins of one of the series’ most mysterious characters as Maisie tells Syd what she needs to know about The Voice. He once had two brothers. The three were a set of telepathic triplets that each shared a third of the personality traits that would normally comprise one person. When two of the three were killed in a house fire, The Voice was hardly able to function normally. He woke up in a hospital being questioned about his claims that he and his brothers were mentally linked. Now unable to get a grasp on his emotions because two thirds of his personality were dead, he was on the verge of heading down a path he wouldn’t be able to return from. That’s when he met He…