Here is another backlogged review I placed on social media but would rather have living here on my cozy blog.
Finally read my newly purchased gorgeous Traveling to Mars (ABLAZE) by Mark Russell, one of my favourite contemporary comic writers, He's predominantly a satirist, but like me, writes across the genres, so ... here's my money. Same reason I snap up anything Alex de Campi does. They are both proverbial bad asses when it comes to horror, sci fi and suspense.
Traveling to Mars concerns Roy Livingston, the protagonist with stage-four cancer who gets a one-way ticket to Mars. There's an international space race on to get boots on-planet first. Turns out, a corporation, Easy Beef, wants to land there first in order to claim the rich gas deposits from Mars' past. In this dystopic sci-fi yarn, Earth's resources are severely depleted, and humans are looking off-world for resources.
As a collected eleven-issue trade, the Traveling to Mars graphic novel is beautiful, poignant, has some clever SFF ideas about space travel and a surprisingly ingratiating depiction of robotic rovers. As well, admittedly, Roberto "Dakar" Meli's art transports you and Chiara Di Francia's lush colours pop.
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