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scans_dailyIt's a Vertigo book.
Its high concept's the immediately interesting kind that makes you wary, makes you wonder if that's just going to end up being a superficially captivating glaze hiding layers of clichés and too-familiar turns.
It's also the kind that makes you wonder if it's going to be fleshed out at the expense of storytelling, makes you think that you might be getting a tract instead of a story.
So far, it doesn't seem in danger of either of those things.
It opens on Cassandra Price, talking to her dad, who's asleep in a pod in a medical ward because he's got Tucker Brady Syndrome.
Suddenly, Azoth - the system running the world, that Tucker Brady'd built - experienced an issue.
Cassandra noticed that her dad and the other patients in the ward were having problems too, and that Azoth's problems meant no one was coming for them, so she used admin credentials that weren't hers to trigger an alert.
Staff came - and, seeing her somewhere she wasn't supposed to be, pulled the power.
She faded out, waking back up in her apartment.
After fixing some after effects of Azoth's issue, she got a very insistent invitation from someone higher up than her.
Sighing, she accepted it.
(Psyche's the AI that facilitates working with Azoth.)
At Mr. Brady's, she met Paris Reynolds, acting CEO of Hermeticorp.
(There're panels in this that seem overfull with dialogue, but they work - the characters involved are either talking to themselves at length, or people who feel like it's been a long while since they ever deferred to anyone in conversation.)
(What follows paraphrases from the Rosary of the Philosophers.
Coloring's Rico Renzi and letters're Simon Bowland.
This is Goddess Mode #1.)
Its high concept's the immediately interesting kind that makes you wary, makes you wonder if that's just going to end up being a superficially captivating glaze hiding layers of clichés and too-familiar turns.
It's also the kind that makes you wonder if it's going to be fleshed out at the expense of storytelling, makes you think that you might be getting a tract instead of a story.
So far, it doesn't seem in danger of either of those things.
It opens on Cassandra Price, talking to her dad, who's asleep in a pod in a medical ward because he's got Tucker Brady Syndrome.
Suddenly, Azoth - the system running the world, that Tucker Brady'd built - experienced an issue.
Cassandra noticed that her dad and the other patients in the ward were having problems too, and that Azoth's problems meant no one was coming for them, so she used admin credentials that weren't hers to trigger an alert.
Staff came - and, seeing her somewhere she wasn't supposed to be, pulled the power.
She faded out, waking back up in her apartment.
After fixing some after effects of Azoth's issue, she got a very insistent invitation from someone higher up than her.
Sighing, she accepted it.
(Psyche's the AI that facilitates working with Azoth.)
At Mr. Brady's, she met Paris Reynolds, acting CEO of Hermeticorp.
(There're panels in this that seem overfull with dialogue, but they work - the characters involved are either talking to themselves at length, or people who feel like it's been a long while since they ever deferred to anyone in conversation.)
(What follows paraphrases from the Rosary of the Philosophers.
Coloring's Rico Renzi and letters're Simon Bowland.
This is Goddess Mode #1.)
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Date: 2018-12-15 05:44 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-12-17 04:48 pm (UTC)Mmm, iterative occult, tasty.