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A review by zare_i
Lazarus X+66 by Aaron Duran, Eric Trautmann, Greg Rucka
4.0
This is a collection of mini series issues that run in parallel to the main story arc. In it we follow side-characters and their adventures/challenges that take place in the shadow of the great Family Conflict.
That being said first thing first - art is mixed bag here, not of your standard quality but again this is side-story collection so I guess they wanted to experiment somewhat. In any case definitely not the quality of main story arc. In my case this was not a major issue but if you expect art to be on the same level as in main story ... lets just say beware :)
We follow young recruit in the Carlyle Daggers as she tries to survive ruthless and almost religiously indoctrinated instructors, her parents as they try to find their way in the new environment after getting "lifted" from "waste" level, journalist investigating what happened to one of the Carlyle sons held by Hock Family (and ending up as involuntary pawn used by the Families), Middle East and South Africa Lazarus soldiers in action trying to retrieve forgotten technology of Vassilovka (because we need better monsters right?), we see what happened to Joacquim and why he acted in the way he acted in vol 6 (compared to these families Corleone is a bloody welfare institution) and finally we get the story centered on weirdest, deadliest and definitely craziest Lazarus of them all, Zmey. As expected, this story is bloody weird but again it is not like Zmey is OK in his head right?
Where it not 2020 story would be of pure dystopia and utter defeat of humanity (you know like in almost every 10th SF novel these days). But since it is 2020 book was more depressing and disturbing to me than I would expect. I think people should treat stories like these as warnings not as bloody blueprints.
Recommended to all fans of dystopian SF.
That being said first thing first - art is mixed bag here, not of your standard quality but again this is side-story collection so I guess they wanted to experiment somewhat. In any case definitely not the quality of main story arc. In my case this was not a major issue but if you expect art to be on the same level as in main story ... lets just say beware :)
We follow young recruit in the Carlyle Daggers as she tries to survive ruthless and almost religiously indoctrinated instructors, her parents as they try to find their way in the new environment after getting "lifted" from "waste" level, journalist investigating what happened to one of the Carlyle sons held by Hock Family (and ending up as involuntary pawn used by the Families), Middle East and South Africa Lazarus soldiers in action trying to retrieve forgotten technology of Vassilovka (because we need better monsters right?), we see what happened to Joacquim and why he acted in the way he acted in vol 6 (compared to these families Corleone is a bloody welfare institution) and finally we get the story centered on weirdest, deadliest and definitely craziest Lazarus of them all, Zmey. As expected, this story is bloody weird but again it is not like Zmey is OK in his head right?
Where it not 2020 story would be of pure dystopia and utter defeat of humanity (you know like in almost every 10th SF novel these days). But since it is 2020 book was more depressing and disturbing to me than I would expect. I think people should treat stories like these as warnings not as bloody blueprints.
Recommended to all fans of dystopian SF.