They're Not Like Us- they're not the X-men

They're Not Like Us - Issue 1

They're Not Like Us is a new comic published by Image and shows a great deal of promise as s new interesting series. It begins with a young woman standing on a ledge of a tall building considering jumping as it will be the only relief she will ever get from the voices she hears. A mysterious man appears behind her and tells her that jumping will not save her.
The woman wakes up bruised and battered in a hospital bed and the stranger tells her that he will take her to meet the others and kidnaps her from the hospital.

Jumping off buildings rarely ends in puppies and ice-cream

The young woman is taken to a beautiful mansion where she learns the stranger's name is The Voice and she meets others like her, others with special powers ranging from the ability to create illusions, super speed and see into the future. She is given the new name Syd and told she now has to leave her old life behind because she is special, she is different and she is better than the people in her old life. She is left with a choice that will end up being a very difficult and may make or break her new found sanctuary.

The art used is nice and simple and a little on the scratchy side. Scratchy art is usually an issue for me but They're Not Like Us seems to balance the scratchiness of the art with colours just bright enough to not make it look gothic and it actually works quite well. The colours are, for lack of a better word, a little on the bland side which is actually not a criticism as it is nice to see some comics without fluro pinks, greens or yellows to assault your eyeballs.

Not assaulting your eyeballs

The first issue and meeting of the group is very reminiscent of the X-men with the confused and overwhelmed Syd finally meeting others like herself and a place where she belongs. But this new group doesn't seem to be the protectors and heroes that the X-men are and seem to be more of a combination of Professor X's "teach them to use and appreciate their powers" and Magnetos "We are better than others and deserve better" which is evident when The Voice tells her they do and take whatever they want "because [they] can" and that fate has chosen them to be better then other people and "thats' all that matters".

If you don't know who these two are you're probably lost

They're Not Like Us had a good first issue and shows potential on being a very interesting series where the lines between hero and villain are not entirely clear. The writers will need to be careful that the series doesn't just become an X-men knock off but so far it is no more similar to the X-men than any other comic using team of people with special abilities.

I give They're Not Like Us 3 out of 5 super secret mansions

Get They're Not Like Us here from Image Comics