Prodigy #5 Review

Writer: Mark Millar / Artist: Rafael Albuquerque / Image  It’s been a long time coming, but the payoff is finally near. Prodigy #5 is responsible for setting up the final showdown between Edison Crane and a centuries-old inter-dimensional plot to take over our beloved Earth. He’s been around the world and back again, uncovering secrets hidden deep on the ocean floor and high in the mountains of the Himalayas. Issue #5 picks up in Palmyra with the most dire situation he’s encountered thus far and leaves us hanging by a thread!

The homie Edison Crane is charged with memorizing every detail of the writings on the ancient wall while surrounded by a cell of terrorists as a USAF Jet counts down the seconds until it’s bombs away on the historic foundation. He’s absorbing intel here and memorizing symbols there. He’s doing everything the most respected billionaire peacekeeper in the world can do. But it’s never enough is it? His shootout with the masked gunman protecting the ancient site completely alters his “have the plane ready for me to jump out the window in 60 seconds” patented go-to plan. Luckily, he’s still got an idea, thanks to all his subconscious worker bees that are always splitting their time between figuring out the world’s biggest problems. Crane makes it out alive, but unfortunately, he’s the antithesis of unscathed. We see some serious fallout from Prodigy’s damn near suicide mission, but a lot of complex memorization had to be done, and he wasn’t going to let a fe…