A review by sizrobe
The Matrix Comics, Vol. 1 by Troy Nixey, Ryder Windham, Geof Darrow, Lana Wachowski, Gregory Ruth, Paul Chadwick, Bill Sienkiewicz, Kilian Plunkett, Peter Bagge, Neil Gaiman, Dave Gibbons, David Lapham, John Van Fleet, Spencer Lamm, Ted McKeever, Lilly Wachowski

3.0

I love the Matrix, even its much maligned sequels, but this collection of stories is hit or miss, mostly misses. The best of the bunch isn't even illustrated, but probably got in anyway because it was written by Neil Gaiman, whose name carries some clout in relation to graphic novels. It's about a eugenically enhanced human that the machines have created to fly a spaceship to fight aliens. Yes, really. It's a lot better in execution than it sounds. Another good one is about a ragtag group that cultivate wheat to bring bread to Zion. The rest are mostly forgettable and middling to bad.