Vol 3, Page 95 – I Don’t Feel Any Different
Hey, it’s JC! It’s been awhile, but you may recall that he died in an “accident” and was resurrected inside the robot that killed him.
This week’s new SF comics you might like fall under the theme of sideways into the future. The first one “Earth In a Pocket” is something quite special. Enjoy!
Earth in a Pocket: Anthropologist-turned-astronaut Halisi Mwangi’s lifelong mission is to bring the past to the stars. One unexpected malfunction later, however, and Halisi is space-shipwrecked on a strange alien world. As she struggles to survive and find a way back home, she finds herself with a new mission: to teach the local alien denizens about humanity, armed with only the contents of her pockets.
Faction:In the game of MUlate, players are sorted into Factions and must fight for domination. Emma Martina – a well known sponsored player – has played MUlate since it first launched, but with her Faction on the brink of elimination and mounting pressure from her sponsors, she begins to wonder how long she has before she’s out of a job.
Temerity: Taeru is a very serious genetically enhanced super-soldier. Naia is a less serious sugar-addicted mercenary. Together they’re the best work-for-hire duo in the galaxy. In an intergalactic world of mechas, brain hacking, and terrible pun t-shirts, Taeru and Naia spend their days performing daring missions for their clients and fighting their own personal demons. Now they’re embarking on the most dangerous mission yet: taking down the organization that created Taeru—and attempting to keep their partnership strictly professional.
Gifts of Wandering Ice: “Gifts of wandering ice” is a sci-fi comic about ancient things people find in melting icebergs. These things, the “ice gifts”, can be anything from frozen ancient trash to valuable technology and even living creatures. Studying ice gifts is dangerous but it’s the only way to restore the forgotten history of humanity.
Oh, poor JC…..:(
This is cool and heart wrenching
masterfully done.
i can’t help but be reminded of the genre-hopping RPG i’ve been running with some philosophy buddies for nearly 3 years now. over the summer one of them had the opportunity to play a far-future android version of his real-life persona. it was wonderfully bizarre, and gave us lots of room to think about the nature of identity. this was compounded later when another player’s character was suffering from a psychic wound and his consciousness had to be uploaded to the bio-memory storage of the space station before his physical body died. in other words, for a couple hours in the game his body was the space station.
there’s a fascinating article on identity and the human relationship to tools if you’re interested. i’m not sure this comment form supports links, so instead i’ll transfer these easy instructions: do a google search for the 4 words — new yorker mind expander. the first article on Andy Clarke from april of this year is the one i mean. cheers.
I’ll check it out, thanks.
A couple of sci-fi stories on cyber identities that I’ve really enjoyed are Becky Chamber’s “A Closed and Common Orbit” (the sequel to her wonderful “The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet”) and Ann Leckie’s “Ancillary Justice” series.
Hey JC, JC, you’re all right by me
Sannahey, sannaho, superstar.