Scott's Take: Children of the Vault by Deniz Camp

Children of the Vault by Deniz Camp, Illustrator Lucas Maresca, explores some of the aftermath of the Fall of X. Without a majority of the X-Men around to maintain the dream prison holding the Children of The Vault (a group of superhuman conquerors who live in a place that time moves at a rate faster than Earth), they are free to conqueror the planet. Since a majority of telepaths were mutants, humanity is now vulnerable to a thought virus. The Children unleash an idea virus that spreads person to person which will kill 99 percent of humans while also converting the few survivors into new Children. They will win a war that most humans won’t even realize has begun.

 

Luckly there are two X-Men left who have a plan to stop them. Cable and Bishop. This is a buddy cop tale featuring the two X-Men from dystopian futures. They could not have more in common. They are both mutant soldiers who are determined to do whatever it takes to complete their mission. They do not have lines they won’t cross. They are not heroes. They are soldiers. They could not hate each other more.  They have a lot of bad blood and history between them. There was a whole thing that Bishop tried to murder Cable and a little girl he was protecting so they committed horrible crimes against each other. For example, Bishop would nuke a whole continent full of people to kill Cable while Cable would start a cult to murder Bishop.  That kind of thing causes issues between them. That’s just one of their problems with each other.

 

This is action miniseries where the buddy cops are insulting each other with shots about their history. There is plenty of action. The villains are interesting if not explored fully because this is only a four-issue series. The art is cool and depicts things well whether it is combat on the astral plane or being a man with his own hammer or deploying a black hole gun. This is a fun miniseries and a good way to learn more about Cable and Bishop. Two complicated mutant soldiers that have a lot of blood on their hands.

 

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My reading copy came by way of the Hoopla App and the Dallas Public Library System.

 

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