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A review by roxanamalinachirila
Genius, Volume 1 by Adam Freeman, Marc Bernardin
2.0
The premise is intereting: a black girl in a troubled neighborhood is the great military genius of our time, so she organizes the gangs into an army and fights against the police.
However, the weak points of the story...
- why did Destiny start a war that she had no way of winning and which would only get her people killed? Was it to get a job with the government? (Because it's absolutely obvious she can't win)
- she keeps *knowing* what the police will do, but we're never shown the process through which she figures out what will happen. She knows, okay? She knows. She's a genius, geniuses know these things.
- how did she train her people? Come on, she's got super-snipers.
- how much firepower *can* one single neighborhood get their hands on?
- she had way less trouble than many other gangsters when it came to acquiring power and holding on to it, didn't she?
Story, don't expect me to suspend my disbelief when you're not offering other things to base new beliefs on.
However, the weak points of the story...
- why did Destiny start a war that she had no way of winning and which would only get her people killed? Was it to get a job with the government? (Because it's absolutely obvious she can't win)
- she keeps *knowing* what the police will do, but we're never shown the process through which she figures out what will happen. She knows, okay? She knows. She's a genius, geniuses know these things.
- how did she train her people? Come on, she's got super-snipers.
- how much firepower *can* one single neighborhood get their hands on?
- she had way less trouble than many other gangsters when it came to acquiring power and holding on to it, didn't she?
Story, don't expect me to suspend my disbelief when you're not offering other things to base new beliefs on.