James Nicoll Reviews

Children of the Atom is the second volume (aka tankōbon) in Peach Momoko’s¹ ongoing Ultimate X‑Men superhero comic book (aka manga) series.

Across Japan (or at least that part of Japan within reach of Shinobu ​“Shadow King” Kageyama) young people are manifesting strange new abilities. According to Fujiwara, the self-proclaimed Maester of the Children of the Atom, they are Homo Superior, the next step in human evolution. Soon, the time will come to act!

Too bad so many kids are dying, but eggs and omelets.

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2024’s Fears And Hates is the first ​“graphic novel” (in the curious American vernacular for tankōbon) of Peach Momoko’s Ultimate X‑Men.

The X‑Men! Inspirational/terrifying/highly destructive champions of the mutant cause! And also completely irrelevant to this narrative as, due to meddling time travellers, the X‑Men never existed.

Not yet, anyway. And when they do appear, it won’t be in familiar form.

Hisako Ichiki is a perfectly normal Japanese school girl with perfectly normal social anxiety and depression and perfectly dreadful marks. Oh, yes. Hisako also has a stalker.

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