David Thorpe (3)

The first half of this book isn't very good. But then Alans Moore and Davis take over and bloody hell does it get good and powerful and heartwrenching quickly and effectively. The end of this book (Marvel Super Heroes 386(last page), 387-389 & The Daredevils 1-11) is the beginning of the seminal Captain Britain story arc by Moore & Davis known as the Jaspers Warp and includes a throwaway line in Daredevils #6 that established the main Marvel universe as Earth #616. A number that has since become synonymous with Marvel comics continuity.

I'm excited to read the end of the Jaspers Warp in volume 5.… (meer)

An eerie contemporary tale on the fusion of man and machine. Johnny Online and Kestrella are hybrids - victims of Creep, a pandemic sweeping the country which causes suffers to merge with items of technology when over-exposed to their use. Hybrids questions our human dependence on technology, and our reactions in the face of nationwide panic. ased in a world which is current, but not quiet; which is real, but only just; which is horribly close to our fears of what is happening and may happen in the future.

A virus, Creep, has swept Britain, causing the merging of technology with people; bass guitars(!), monitors and computer innards, mobile phones, it’s all there. The people infected as deemed dirty and dangerous by the non-infected, and as such are rounded up and kept seperate. Those on the run feel isolated and live on the edge, mostly banding together to survive.

The writing is at a steady pace and as a children’s book, will easily be followed. There’s no ‘over your head technology’ to content with, it’s really just people who are different to ‘the norm’. I feel this is a nice introduction to cyberpunk. It has messages too, loving someone, not for their physical appearance, but for their ‘internal beauty’; public panic at the unknown; dependency on technology. The depenency on technology is, while reading, the message which struck me most.… (meer)