Kang the
Conqueror: Only Myself Left to Conquer by Collin Kelly and Jackson
Lanzing is an interesting and good read. In this time travel story, Kang has
traveled back into time to mentor his younger self and hopefully alter the path
of his life. Kang is stuck in a cycle of failure and thinks he can break it.
I have never found
Kang that interesting. A villain from the future that can time travel who faces
people who can’t, always has seemed to me that you would have to be a pretty
crappy villain to have so many advantages and still lose. He has so many things
to his advantage. Kang has a giant battleship shaped like a sword, his own army
of warriors, advanced tech as well as an arsenal of weapons from the future,
the knowledge of the future, a genius IQ, is incredibly fit, a time travel machine,
an arsenal of weapons, and still loses. It’s hard to understand why he loses imagine
why he loses, except for the simple reason he is really bad at his job.
When he does lose,
it is allegedly all part of his plan. For the first time, at least for me, Kang
was actually interesting. The authors were able to strike a really good balance
between the teenager he was before he became Kang and the man who he became who
now calls himself Kang. Kang is not Kang’s birth name. He was at one point just
a smart teenager called Nathaniel Richards who was just a kid that did not fit
in a stagnated society.
The writing and
the art is excellent and the various versions of Kang are present. This is a
good story for people unfamiliar with Kang. Kang is complicated. It is also a
good way to prepare for the new Avengers title by Jed MacKay since Kang and the
Avengers are working together. Kang is trading information from the future that
the Avengers could use to save lives in exchange for protection and the
Avengers help.
My reading copy
came by way of Hoopla and the Dallas Public Library System.
Scott A. Tipple ©2023
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