| Prodigy. | |
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 Cover of the first trade paperback. Art by Ozgur Yildirim. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Image Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | December 2018 – June 2019 |
| No. of issues | 6 + 5 + 5 |
| Main characters |
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| Creative team | |
| Written by | Mark Millar |
| Artists |
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| Letterer | Peter Doherty |
| Colorist | Marcelo Maiolo |
| Editor | Rachael Fulton |
| Collected editions | |
| Prodigy. The Evil Earth | ISBN 1-5343-1236-6 |
| Prodigy. The Icarus Society | ISBN 1-5343-2455-0 |
| Big Game | ISBN 1-5343-9911-9 |
| Prodigy. Slaves of Mars | ISBN 1-5067-4489-3 |
Prodigy. is a Britishcomic book series created byMark Millar andRafael Albuquerque, who respectively write and illustrate the first volume, and published byImage Comics. The title was announced near the end of 2018 as the second comic book collaboration between Mark Millar andNetflix,[1] after the company acquired theMillarworld imprint ofcreator-owned titles in the summer of 2017,[2] and to be adapted as a film exclusive to the streaming service, along with other of the imprint's comic book series. The first volume ran for six issues from December 2018 to June 2019, and atrade paperback collecting the series, subtitledProdigy. The Evil Earth, was released the next month.
Three sequels followed:Prodigy. The Icarus Society (2022; illustrated by Matteo Buffagni),Big Game (2023; illustrated by Pepe Larraz), andProdigy. Slaves of Mars (2024; illustrated by Stefano Landini), published byDark Horse Comics.[3]
Edison Crane isn't content being the world's smartest man and most successful businessman – his brilliant mind needs to be constantly challenged. He's aNobel Prize-winning scientist, a genius composer, anOlympic athlete, and an expert in the occult, and now international governments are calling on him to fix problems they just can't handle.[4]
Edison Crane has always been the smartest man in the room. Now he's in a world he didn't even know existed with the Icarus Society, a secret society of super geniuses all richer than he is. Blackmailed into recovering an artefact on a mission they know is almost certain death, Edison and the richest man alive, Felix Koffka, must search for the lost city ofShangri-La, where the world's most evil people have been pulled for thousands of years.[5]
While excavating the remnants of the Royal Empire, a prehistoricgalactic empire that considered Earth its capital, Edison Crane is recruited by"Bobbie Griffin", formerly theBatgirl of theDC Universe prior to its transmogrification into theMillarworld, who withthe Chrononauts must face off against the Secret Lord of Earth and leader of the Fraternity of Super-Criminals Wesley Gibson, who aims to wipe out all the world's superhumans as his father had once done in 1986, as well as the Royal Empire, their fleet brought to the future byMindy McCready.[6]
On March 21, 2024,Mark Millar announced thatProdigy. Slaves of Mars was set for publication fromDark Horse Comics in August 2024.[7]
| Title | Material collected | Format | Publication date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 1:The Evil Earth | Prodigy #1–6 | Trade paperback | July 31, 2019 | 978-1534312364 |
| Volume 2:The Icarus Society | Prodigy. The Icarus Society #1–5 | Trade paperback | January 11, 2023 | 978-1534324558 |
| Crossover:Big Game | Big Game #1–5 | Trade paperback | December 20, 2023 | 978-1534399112 |
| Volume 3:Slaves of Mars | Prodigy. Slaves of Mars #1–5 | Trade paperback | April 29, 2025 | 978-1506744896 |
In the summer of 2017,Netflix acquired Mark Millar's comic book publishing companyMillarworld, and the next summer, announced that it had greenlit two series based onJupiter's Legacy andAmerican Jesus, and three films based onEmpress,Huck andSharkey the Bounty Hunter.[8]
In June 2018, Mark Millar announced the release ofThe Magic Order,[9] the first comic book series under the Millarworld imprint since Netflix acquired the publisher, and in November of the same year, announcedProdigy., one month before the release of the first issue, with both being considered to be adapted as an episodic series and a feature film respectively.
In March 2020, it was reported that the series will be adapted into a feature film, withKaz Firpo and Ryan Firpo writing the script.[10]
In March 2022, Millar confirmed the title would be the first major movie to come out on Netflix since the acquisition in 2017.[11]
In November 2022, Miller and Matteo Buffagni announced via the synopsis for the finale ofProdigy. The Icarus Society that the volume would serve as the basis for theProdigy feature film.[12]
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Double-sized finale. Order high. We know we're biased but this book is f---ing excellent and it's about to be a HUGENetflix movie.
