Omega Kids #3: The Kids Have No Future

Quentin has finally woken up from the matrix, and more importantly finally caught on to what his students were doing. What results is a battle that hinges less on the lives at stake, and more on how much Quentin, for better AND worse, has not really changed.

The question asked last time of Quentin is answered here, and it’s pretty clear that he answered wrong. Quentin has a very impactful decision to make at the end of this series, and his choice is a betrayal of most everything he was taught. He expounds on how the X-Men would do things, but ironically enough does the exact opposite. Well, that’s not entirely true. He does something that CHARLES XAVIER would likely do, but not what Logan and others who actually cared for him beyond his abilities tried to teach him. In a way, he truly did become Professor X’s star pupil. 

Rachel Summers returns in this issue to help Quentin out, but her presence isn’t that noticeable by the time the battle is over. We also don’t see just what her reaction is to Quentin’s final decision and the cruelty of it. Though it does beg the question on just what was real and what was a projection created by Quentin to save himself.

Tony Fleecs rounds the story off about as well as he could with the framework given, but I feel there was more meat on the bone for this particular story. The children of this world get little to no focus, so it would have been a good area to explore just how Revelation views them in his new world. Are they only weapons to be used if they are mutants? Or is it just telepaths who are special?

Andres Genolet’s pencils continue to be a welcome sight alongside Fernando Sifuentes-Sujo’s expressive colors, but there are a few off model moments that keep things from being as good as they were in past issues.