I was most excited to read the Omni section of the H1 Ignition Free Comic Book Day special. It dealt with Dr. Cecilia Cobbina trying to stop the bleeding of a shot policeman during a market robbery. Her power seems to be to analyze status of the patient and gunman. She convinces the gunman to run and is able to bring the victim to a hospital. Three pages! The cover by Mike McKone has Dr. Cobbina standing over a map of Africa with camp gear behind her, love this cover! “Logical-Mathematical” is written by Devin Grayson, the title refers to the nine types of intelligence identified by Howard Gardner, and it also is mentioned within the comic book. I studied a little of it for college. Grayson is a writer with a large amount of work for DC Comics including Year One: Batman/Ra’s Al Ghul and also for IDW, the GLOW Summer Special #1. The artwork is by Alitha Martinez who worked on World of Wakanda for Marvel Comics. There is a summary page for Dr. Cecilia Cobbina and her work for Doctors Without Borders, a real life organization that helps conflict and disaster areas, she ignited and is looking for what happened in the United States. She has Mae Walters, assistant like Doctor Watson, with her.
It starts off with a dump truck’s blaring horn as the driver is about to run down Cecilia, Mae, and another person, Antony. She tells him to use his power to phase them through the truck. The truck crashes and Mae, our narrator, brings us back to working in Central Africa as doctors. Six gunmen enter as they are operating and threatening the doctors to help one of their own. In New Orleans, Cecilia informs Mae that the bus driver has a broken arm, and she goes to administer aid. Then, it goes to an extreme close-up of Cecilia in Africa with her mask. It goes into an impressive two page spread where the various aspects of Dr. Cobbina’s intelligence (in different colors) assesses and reflects on the situation, the various people, which brings up the title, Omni, it may be omniscent, but it looks like her intelligences are only in her visual range. I really like this use of her power and the visuals by Martinez. Then, the gun men speak words, Sango, which Dr. Cobbina knows, but we don’t get the translation. I’m getting some Neal Adams in the character artwork, but there is some simple lines and the almost supernatural quality of the intelligences.
Mae explains to the bus driver whose arm she wrapped up about the gunmen that Dr. Cobbina helped and went back to their camp to help others. Cecilia rushes in and takes Mae away. They head out to the street and Mae brings up that Cecilia should wear a cape. Kinda funny. The interesting part of the preview was that Dr. Cobbina’s mind was calculating everything, there is no emergency response time, and we don’t see any police or medical team after they finish. Later, Mae shows Cecilia the comic book she’s working on about their adventures, love it! As she is about to go to sleep, Cecilia mentions that it is not all action, it is loneliness. Strange, I think her time with Doctors Without Borders would be more emotionally difficult for her. She brings up Atlanta, Mr. Davis, and the intelligence types. It shifts to Cascade Heights, Atlanta, on the porch of her sister’s house. Livi finds it hard to believe her sister has “super-intelligence.” It is interesting, I think Interpersonal Intelligence should have helped Cecilia break her secret to her sister in the most comfortable way. She brings up the nine Intelligence Types identified by Gardner. We see the types and their colors as Cecila lists them. This is an intriguing premise and power. Mae provides the humor and fun while we get a very intelligent and capable heroine. They are going to uncover the secret of the H1 Ignited Universe!
Four out of Five Intelligences!
#Omni, #DevinGrayson, AlethaMartinez, #DrCeciliaCobbina.
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