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A review by rah10
Magnus: Between Two Worlds Tp by Kyle Higgins, Chuck Wendig
5.0
4.5 stars
I didn't know anything about this title going into it. The premise sounded like fun so I put in a request to read it on NetGalley.
The story stands on its own, though I believe it is part of a larger narrative with The Sovereigns. You don't need to know anything going in to it. The world and rules of it are set up clearly with an introductory paragraph and through simple story telling.
We are in a distant future with AI who can escape their servitude for a mandated 4 hours a day to live in a cloud world run on human servers. Some start to find a way to live on their own in the cloud. So much so that they don't want to go back to a world in which humans define who the are, what they can do, and how much the life is worth.
The protagonist, Magnus, is a human capable of entering the cloud without losing her mind. This makes her a valuable source to the cops when an AI commits a heinous crime and runs into the cloud to hide.
Again, I didn't know much about this title going in. It never dragged - I found that the story unfolded at a great pace with dialogue from a previous scene framing the context of the next. I would definitely like to see side stories set in the robot cloud.
If you purchase this for your library, maybe think of a movie/book cross over table with Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049 and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Maybe throw in other android/AI based comics.
Overall, I recommend it and would love to see more of the story unfold.
I didn't know anything about this title going into it. The premise sounded like fun so I put in a request to read it on NetGalley.
The story stands on its own, though I believe it is part of a larger narrative with The Sovereigns. You don't need to know anything going in to it. The world and rules of it are set up clearly with an introductory paragraph and through simple story telling.
We are in a distant future with AI who can escape their servitude for a mandated 4 hours a day to live in a cloud world run on human servers. Some start to find a way to live on their own in the cloud. So much so that they don't want to go back to a world in which humans define who the are, what they can do, and how much the life is worth.
The protagonist, Magnus, is a human capable of entering the cloud without losing her mind. This makes her a valuable source to the cops when an AI commits a heinous crime and runs into the cloud to hide.
Again, I didn't know much about this title going in. It never dragged - I found that the story unfolded at a great pace with dialogue from a previous scene framing the context of the next. I would definitely like to see side stories set in the robot cloud.
If you purchase this for your library, maybe think of a movie/book cross over table with Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049 and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Maybe throw in other android/AI based comics.
Overall, I recommend it and would love to see more of the story unfold.