Ain't no future. My life didn't come true.
From the creative team of Brain Azzarello and Eduardo Risso, who brought us 100 Bullets, comes this new 9 issue sci-fi tale. This series is also published by Vertigo and though they have featured sci-fi stories before they don't tend to drift too far from fantasy and supernatural tales.
We find the main character, Orson, in two very different circumstances. First he is an astronaut on a Mars base heading out in a storm to fix a problem in one of the greenhouses. In the second, he is living in a post-apocalyptic Earth having been modified for the Mars mission but not going on it. There is no clue as to how these two realities tie up. There are background details that have echoes in each of the realities so one could be the fever dream of the other - in the Mars reality Orson cracks his helmet visor on the way to the greenhouse possibly inhaling something in the atmosphere of Mars and in the Earth one he is taking a recreational drug that could be inducing visions.
Being the first issue not much is given away but it is intriguing enough, and I like 100 Bullets enough, to trust in the storytelling and continue with the series and see where it takes me. I love the art by Risso - he has to be one of my favourite artists just now.
First published on RevolutionSF on Sunday Oct 30, 2011
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