by Robert Venditti (story) and Brett Weldele (art), 204 pages
In the not too distant future, most people stay home and live and
work remotely through highly realistic high-tech robots called surrogates. When his surrogate is damaged while
investigating the destruction of several surrogates in an electrical storm
and during a break-in at a lab, Harvey finds himself the odd man out when he
decides to actually go to work in person.
This near-future dystopian story is more social commentary
(/warning?) than mystery, but I enjoyed pondering the questions it poses. From what I hear, the movie adaptation with
Bruce Willis is quite different, so I'll have to watch it and compare the
two. If you give this a look-see, you
might consider coming to BWD to chat about it in the fall when it has its turn
in our ongoing graphic novel discussions.*
*the third Thursday of every month at 6:30 (shameless program plug) :P
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