Naomi, a heroine for the new generation of DC Comics

Living in a small town in the northwest of the United States, Naomi always knew she was adopted, but her parents are always evasive about her origins. The accidental arrival of Superman will completely upset this African-American teenager.

A life yet so banal…

Naomi alternates between high school and her job at a fast-food restaurant while being glued to her cell phone. Although she is surrounded by the love of her parents and friends, she is going through a personal crisis. Like Miles Morales in Ultimate Spider-Man, we can find it naïve or overflowing with love. Once a week, she goes to the shrink because she suffers from the Superman complex – the desire to be different and adopted. Screenwriter Bendis as the adoptive father of two daughters knows the situation well. Discussions with his daughters also fueled the writing. Superman's fight against Mongul is the trigger for Naomi's quest for his origins but extended to the city. Naomi dives into all the commonplaces about adoption and superheroism before discovering the truth.Once this secret is revealed, the series adopts a too dilated pace.

The first step in a recovery

After being Marvel's flagship writer, Brian Michael Bendis launches a new collection at DC, Wonder Comics. This renovation features younger, minority heroes like The Legion of Superheroes coming in October and Naomi. But, for this last series, David F. Walker, a longtime friend, drew on his childhood in Portland to feed the narrative with more realism. Through this collaboration, this title is also the story of the friendship between the two men, a relationship reinforced by the ordeal of Bendis' illness.

A visually luminous narrative

The superb drawing of the very young Jamal Campbell is the other asset of this series. The varied formatting never prevents smooth reading. In addition, the very original brown or golden hues push the title even more towards optimism. Urban comics takes care of the publishing. In addition to Bendis' very touching preface, the reader will discover at the end of the volume a short interview with Jamal Campbell, the sketches of the characters, the sketches of the heroine and her costume. Naomi is a luminous story, more complete in one volume. These six episodes are with Young Justice very promising launches for this new planet of the DC universe. The Americans were not mistaken in plebiscitating this series.