The Weatherman Vol. 2
Jody LeHeup, writer; Nathan Fox, artist; Moreno Dinisio, colorist
Image Comics, 2020
The first volume featured Martian weatherman Nathan Bright's life being turned upside-down. He had been a wise-cracking, devil-may-care guy: now he found himself on the run from two different armed groups. They are after him because they think he is the universe's greatest criminal, the man who engineered the terrorist attack that nearly decimated the population of Earth. He has no memory of it, because supposedly he has undergone a personality transplant. This volume opens with his group crashing a space barricade to return to a now-quarantined Earth, in search of his electronically stored original personality. Crazy as the action was on Mars, Earth has dramatically changed, and if anything the action here is even wilder. Not only is the human population greatly reduced, but mutants called biophages are taking over, and they're shape-shifters. Bright finds the stored personality of his alter-ego Ian Black, and (surprisingly) steps up, offering to undergo a transfer. There are two shocking twists, but in the end Nathan is back with The Sword of God terrorist group, passing for Ian Black. Volume 3 promises a conclusion. It should be quite a story.
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