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Bezig met laden... Countdoor Ibrahim Moustafa (Writer and artist)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. On the surface Ibrahim Moustafa’s new graphic novel could be described as simply The Count of Monte Christo retold in an SF setting. But to do so would be doing it a disservice. While there is action and intrigue aplenty, it’s also a nuanced take on politics, technology, and the true cost of obsessive revenge. An interesting take on a classic tale. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Framed for treason and wrongfully imprisoned at the hands of a jealous and corrupt magistrate, Redxan Samud escapes his breathtaking hovering prison colony with only one thing on his mind: Revenge. Posing as a Man of Status with a newfound fortune and his Automaton Retainer Unit (Aru) by his side, Samud sets out to dismantle the lives of those who have wronged him. But when innocent lives start to get caught in the middle of his quest for vengeance, he will have to decide between using his new fortune for the good of the people or to pursue the revenge he so desperately desires. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The Count of Monte Cristo is what, eleventy billion pages long? And this story is attempting to not only condense it to a single volume of graphic novel medium, but also add a unique science fiction environment?
I did not care about a single person in this story. Redxan Samud is framed for treason and separated from his love and whatever I just... like? That's a bummer, I guess? There is so little time to introduce anything about him, other than the facts that I guess the guy who frames him is kinda terrible, and you know, prisons are bad, and political prisons worse... I just had no time to feel invested enough to be outraged. His wife Meris is barely a character, so when absolutely anything at all happens to her, I again felt aggressively meh about it.
Had I already had relationship with these characters that I could map onto these new sci-fi versions, I probably would have experienced some actual feelings here? I wanted to have some feelings about the robot dude, but there I didn't know if it was just that there was so little time to tell the story or if the robot, being a robot, really had no preferences or thoughts or allegiances other than his last directive? It was difficult to grow feelings there, too.
AND THEN REDXAN HAS THIS WHOLE EMOTIONAL AND SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PIRATE CAPTAIN LADY DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE IS TRYING TO GET BACK TO HIS WIFE AND ALL?
The art was cool. Some neat things happened in the world building. I just did not care about any of the people or people-ish things here. ( )