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Ex-Mutants #1: A Breed Apart

October 7, 2018 Leave a Comment

In a post-apocalyptic future, a scientist transforms five mutants into humans.

Alex with lover

Dr. Alex with his lover

Issue #1

We start off in modern(ish) times with a science man named Alex and his girlfriend/wife. He leaves on a trip, and nine months later – after a nuclear war – the world ends.

Mutants with Dr. Cugat

Mutants walk the Earth

In the Post-Apocalypse

Thirty years after the apocalypse, humanity is no more; taking its place, in the remnants of civilization, are mutants.

Mutant pointing at Cugat

Dr. Cugat finds a solar battery

One such mutant, Dr. Emmanuel Cugat (Alex’s son, it seems), selects five young mutants as test subjects. He puts them in a machine that re-sequences their DNA to make them all human.

Cugat with tubes

It begins

After the experiment’s success, Cugat becomes a father figure for these ex-mutants, showing them books and movies, and teaching them martial arts! These skills come in handy when they get in a fight with some mutants who don’t like their human appearance.

Ex-mutants fight mutants

Fight scene

Cugat gives them a car and they drive off, but they crash and are approached by a menacing group of shadows.

Ex-Mutants in car

Right before they hit something

Thoughts

I enjoyed the spin-off issue of Ex-Mutants I read a couple years ago, so I thought I’d give the main series a try. The first couple pages, showing the downfall of civilization and Cugat wondering if humanity’s worth bringing back are oddly serious and even a bit gloomy.

Bad guy wearing hockey mask

This guy’s straight out of Mad Max

But as soon as the Ex-Mutants are introduced, the comic gets a lot more light-hearted, with characters caring more about breaking their nails than the whole downfall of civilization thing. It’s actually kinda fun, and this levity is what drew me in to the series in the first place; I also dig the black and white art and fight scenes.

Cugat with ex-mutants

Dr. Cugat with Angela, Belushi, Erin, Vikki, and Lorelei

The comic is definitely aimed for a teenage male audience, though. Nearly all the women in this comic are shown wearing scantily clad outfits, have nipples poking through their shirts, and want to sleep with the male protagonist (self-insert character?). Eyeroll-inducing at best, sexist at worst.

Rating

3 out of 5 eggs rating

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Decade: 1980s Filed Under: Comic Reviews Tagged: action, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi

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