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Miss K

21:23 / 24.02.05

Anyone pick up this new title from Marvel? Ultra postmodern, dense and witty writing from Adam Warren, whose cleverness and lightness of touch I've always really liked c/w super art by Rick Mays who did the amazing Scarab miniseries with David Mack a while ago.

Issue one kicks off with a breathless, fun and explodey round up of the team of "teen" biotech / nanotech-packing robots as they "exfiltrate" the facility that gave them birth. Neat revelation about lead character "Stem Cell" at the end.

It's like Morrison writing Astro Boy. I like it!

Mario

22:10 / 24.02.05

Bought it. Liked it. But this was no surprise, as I've been a fan of Adam Warren's work for years. I even have a sketch from him.

matsya

23:22 / 24.02.05

any previews around?

m.

Mario

23:42 / 24.02.05

Yes there is:

First 5 pages

X-Himy

01:50 / 25.02.05

I was surprised by how much I liked this, it was quite good.

diz

06:33 / 25.02.05

i thought the Stem Cell thing was pretty obvious, but i love that her power (at least for the time being) seems to be making gadgets in the nanofactory in her stomach and then vomiting them up for use. classic.

this was a lot of fun. it was fast-paced and funny with a bunch of demented characters. it could totally come apart at the seams next issue, or it could be some really inspired lunacy. i'm in.

fluid_state

13:17 / 25.02.05

Warren gives good pop-comic. and Rick Mays? Colour me sold.

Liked the nonplussed reactions within the team to their own mortality (robotality? boot-failure?), contrasted with the human-programmed Stem Cell. Gothic Lolita, however, creeps me out a little. Good pop.

FinderWolf

13:35 / 25.02.05

I've always loved Rick Mays' art (he did an especially nice job on the Arsenal miniseries written by Devin K. Grayson a while back, though his recent Robin work was kind of lackluster - although he had a bad writer to work with in Bill Willingham on Robin)...Warren is fun, this issue was cool but didn't inspire me to regularly get the series.

Miss K

14:26 / 25.02.05

It's like Morrison writing Astro Boy. I like it!

Quoting myself again. disgraceful.

But Grant updating Astro Boy for the 21st Century. Who else would pay good money to see that??!!

Mario

17:16 / 26.02.05

I wouldn't say Adam is updating Astro Boy, because Astro Boy was the first of the "Robots who want to be humans", and he's gone on record, multiple times, as saying these "semi-autonomus, artificially intelligent, limited-nanofunction, humanform mecha constructs" are NOT going to go that route.

Which is a refreshing change of pace, when you think about it. I can't think of another synthetic character (off the top of my head) that doesn't have "Pinocchio Syndrome".

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