Spoiler warning!  I really want to get into details on this book and its your own fault if you haven’t read it yet.

Brent tells us he’s different.  There are many references to the Vitros.  Any reader will understand that Brent is a Vitro.  However, its the revelation of what this means that blows your mind.

Years ago a drug was used on fetuses in utero.  Now that these children are grown up and teenaged the full extent of what has happened is revealed.  These kids are super intelligent.  They just flat out operate at a higher level than the smartest person you know could even hope or dream to be.  Like anything different or new in society, most people hate them.  Sure society has progressed so far.  Lets take all of our racism and homophobia and transfer it to the Vitros.  The scary thing is, other than intelligence there is no way to tell who is or is not a Vitro.  Is that kid in advanced math a Vitro, or just naturally smart?  Who cares, hate him anyways!  Grab the pitchforks and torches.

Brent’s parents are useless couch potatoes.  Are they actually or is it because at his advanced evolutionary stage everyone else seems to be sitting in place?  He can break apart any theorem thrown his way but damn if he can understand the female mind.  Sold.  That right there is some brilliant character development folks.  She is his love interest, his confidant and his… accuser?

Like any teen who is too smart for his own good, Brent has trouble with the jocks in school (hello most comic book readers).  However, unlike us real world people he has the ability to create and fight back.  To disastrous results.  Technologies never work right the first time (ever buy an iPhone on day one?) and Brent’s defensive invention doesn’t work out at all.

Brent realizes he’s screwed and decides to run away.  He goes home first, like any teen would, and runs right into a trap.  Those couch  potato parents don’t seem so useless now do they?  Not to say they’re good or right, but not useless.  Brent is about to enter a whole new world of hurt but that’s for the next issue.

Oh, and throughout the entire issue there is a background story of a Vitro terrorist organization.  Are they violent extremists?  Or is it a group of kids who are too smart for their own good and keep making mistakes?  Much like Brent.

I already picked up the next issue.  The title somehow blends character development and an edge of the seat adventure conspiracy story.  I don’t know how, but its brilliant.