Review: Weatherman Vol 2 #3

Though it“s relatively new, Weatherman is still at the top of my list of comics that were released in 2018, which deserves to be adapted into a series. I mean c“mon”¦ a comic about Nathan Bright, a minor celebrity weatherman, in a future solar system, who learns that he had a hand in helping the most terrible terrorist attack of all time. Nathan; however, doesn“t remember because his mind was wiped, and now he and a motley crew of government agents and murderous mercs are trying to stop a second event by exploring elements of his past on the wasteland that is currently Earth

In the previous issue of ”˜The Weatherman“ #2, we were introduced to a dystopian future where everyone on Earth is near wiped out by a virus, save several, outposts. The Virus consumes everyone it touches, but strangely resurrects them in a pod people like fashion, but in the meantime it left skyscrapers sized mountains of bones in its wake. Our rag tag team has to maneuver around this ill-begotten city, only to realize that the main reason they came back (trying to get to Dr. Nyseth) is now dead.

In the current issue of ”˜The Weatherman“ #3 we find out that the virus“ name is Proteus, and it“s not a virus it“s actually a Protozoan parasite that has adapted to invade and live in cells and tissues of other organisms. A protozoan that went from being able to survive on its own in the environment to mooching off humans. Overtime it has adopted to be able to mimic the DNA of organisms it has consumed so that it can entrap and eat more people”¦very similar to the microbe causes mice to lose their fear of cats, making them more likely to be eaten; a protozoan decreases the amount of blood tsetse flies can get from a single bite, causing them to bite and infect more individuals.
The things is ”˜The Weatherman“ is just about Proteus“ toll on the planet, it is also about the morally ambiguous decisions of the people in charge that allows it to thrive. First it was the decision of the senior leadership in charge to fund research into it as a weapon. Now they are using the fear of a second attack to push manage the support of the people. On the last outpost on earth it is the senior leadership that has been feeding the biophage with more people in order to buy more time to research a cure that may never come. It“s obvious that Jody Leheup“s (Shirtless Bear-Fighter) focus has shifted from the character development driven pacing of Volume #1, to a more world building focus in volume 2, utilizing recent breakthroughs in science.

Over-all it“s a solid issue with some jaw dropping reveals. I feel like the description kind of undersells the potential of this title. Out of 5 stars I give it a 5, in that it is good enough that I want to pick-up the 4th issue to see how they continue to integrate some of the ideas that they introduced.

Weatherman Vol 2 #3 comes with three covers; Cover A Regular Nathan Fox Cover; B Variant Andrew Robinson Cover; but my favorite is the Cover C Variant Stephanie Hans Cover, so that the one I“ll be after on Wednesday.

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Script by Jody Leheup (Shirtless Bear-Fighter)
Art by Nathan Fox
Colors by Moreno Disini
Letters by Steve Wands
Published by Image Comics