A review by villyidol
Divinity by Matt Kindt
3.0
Nice origin story of an actual new character.
Abram Adams is an orphaned black man that joins the Soviet Union’s army and during the height of the Cold War gets asked to become part of a classified deep space exploring mission.
He begins his journey into space in 1960, leaving behind his young wife/girlfriend and their unborn child, and does not return for decades.
In 2015 he suddenly shows up in the Australian outback, now possessing god-like powers and aptly known to people as Divinity.
He begins granting wishes to those people that come to him, without them even having to ask. He gives them not only what they want but what they really need. He’s able, amongst some other things, to bend space and time which is repeatedly described as a book in which he can go to whichever page he wants.
That much power in the hands of a single person, even though only used in a benign way, greatly concerns some people though and Team Unity (Ninjak, Eternal Warrior, X-O Manowar and Livewire) is send in to either contain or terminate him.
Since I’m completely new to Valiant I think that some things might have got lost on me during Divinity’s confrontation with Unity.
However, the story still worked well enough for me and because of the themes of lost time with his family and the government‘s(?) dealing with his powers I almost rated this four stars. But most of the story didn’t quite reach that level.
Let’s see if this takes off for real with the second volume.
Abram Adams is an orphaned black man that joins the Soviet Union’s army and during the height of the Cold War gets asked to become part of a classified deep space exploring mission.
He begins his journey into space in 1960, leaving behind his young wife/girlfriend and their unborn child, and does not return for decades.
In 2015 he suddenly shows up in the Australian outback, now possessing god-like powers and aptly known to people as Divinity.
He begins granting wishes to those people that come to him, without them even having to ask. He gives them not only what they want but what they really need. He’s able, amongst some other things, to bend space and time which is repeatedly described as a book in which he can go to whichever page he wants.
That much power in the hands of a single person, even though only used in a benign way, greatly concerns some people though and Team Unity (Ninjak, Eternal Warrior, X-O Manowar and Livewire) is send in to either contain or terminate him.
Since I’m completely new to Valiant I think that some things might have got lost on me during Divinity’s confrontation with Unity.
However, the story still worked well enough for me and because of the themes of lost time with his family and the government‘s(?) dealing with his powers I almost rated this four stars. But most of the story didn’t quite reach that level.
Let’s see if this takes off for real with the second volume.
