Tomorrow #1 and #2

[history79]

"In recent years a number of remarkable young people have appeared, from America to Sweden to Pakistan and beyond. Outstanding, brave individuals like Malala Yousafzai, Emma Gonzalez, and Greta Thunberg who spoke and continue to speak out against murder and bigotry and our capacity for self-destruction. We might be forgiven for thinking: if these are the people of tomorrow, surely tomorrow will be a brighter, more tolerant, and less self-destructive one?

Yes, that’s all well and good, but...but you see, I remember.

I remember the tyrannies and atrocities of the schoolyard. I remember just how red in tooth and claw so many of those kids were: how for every Malala there were a bunch of tiny Taliban, for every Emma Gonzalez countless cold-eyed would-be killers waving imaginary firearms at the weak and the innocent.

So maybe, just maybe, the fate of tomorrow isn’t quite so secure...if left to the children. In other words, is the wickedness and madness of mankind acquired, learned through lives of hard- knocks, the sole preserve only of adults, or are these flowers of evil inherent in the yet-to-fully-bloom bulbs?"

- Peter Milligan




#1

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#2

Comments

[matrix_dragon]

Adults die, so kids all turn into little savages. Nothing new here.

[icon_uk]

So this is basically Lord of the Flies, The Tribe, or at least three series of YA books?

Aside from being singularly unoriginal, amd Millgan being cynical even by his standards (not necessarily wrong, but cynical), the timing on this is REALLY unfortunate.

[filthysize]

The comic about a virus killing older people will not be able to ship their last 3 issues because of a real life virus killing older people.

[freezer]

Or Crossed with 90% rape and murder.

[luxshine]

It even names drop Lord of the Flies. Really, nothing new here, nor something that I'd like to read right now.

[lordultimus]

A computer virus mutated into an actual virus.

I... I can't. I just can't.

[scorntx]

Must've been exposed to that internet gas.

[superfangirl1]

Lord of the flies the sequel. I got to admit a computer virus effecting humans is a interesting concept.

[hotfoot]

Yes, and a virus that attacks humans jumping to rocks is equally interesting and plausible.

The idea of something created by computers to attack humans, meanwhile, using the concepts of using human sensory organs to gain direct read/write access to the human brain, for lack of a better term since brains are not computers, is interesting though. How that would result in people vomiting up their organs and whatnot is beyond me, but hey, here we are.

A shame that the expert in the comic is conflating computer viruses and organic viruses, which, despite both being called a "virus", are fundamentally different things, the same way a lightning bug is not, actually, a host for a bolt of lightning.

[reveen]

Okay boo- uh, wait a minute.

Peter Milligan, birth year 1961.

Okay boomer.

[lordultimus]

"I'm Jewish, you can't out-minority me!"

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Ya know, a computer virus jumping into humans probably isn't the oddest idea in comics.

But at least try to sell it, maybe? Because otherwise, God damn, does it look lazy.