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geekwayne's review against another edition
4.0
'Magnus: Between Two Worlds' by Kyle Higgins with art by Jorge Fornes is a different take on the character I've read before, and it's a pretty good graphic novel.
It is 2020 and humans use artificial intelligence for menial work. These androids seem content with their lot, but they have a whole internal world in the cloud. Magnus can traverse this space. She works as a therapist for out of sorts A.I., but she used to hunt them down. Now an A.I. named Frederick has murdered his humans and the cops want Magnus to use her skills to hunt him down. She finds herself at odds with humans and A.I. in her search.
I really liked this story of a possible future. The concepts and world were really interesting. The art had an older school vibe to it, but I liked it as well. It was a very satisfying story to me.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Dynamite Entertainment, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
It is 2020 and humans use artificial intelligence for menial work. These androids seem content with their lot, but they have a whole internal world in the cloud. Magnus can traverse this space. She works as a therapist for out of sorts A.I., but she used to hunt them down. Now an A.I. named Frederick has murdered his humans and the cops want Magnus to use her skills to hunt him down. She finds herself at odds with humans and A.I. in her search.
I really liked this story of a possible future. The concepts and world were really interesting. The art had an older school vibe to it, but I liked it as well. It was a very satisfying story to me.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Dynamite Entertainment, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
misterfix's review against another edition
3.0
Had some nice concepts but they immediately anthropomorphize the AI and I never got over that. The idea of the cloud refuge was unique and it kept my interest but having read and studied AI development a fair bit I simply don't buy the way that they presented it here. Additionally the ending not being a clean wrap up frustrated me. I am growing tired of comics (The Normals, Black Hammer, etc) like this one that feel more like mini-series rather than complete, satisfying stories unto themselves. Oh well...
3dotsforme's review against another edition
3.0
Magnus can slide between two mental worlds and is pulled into a taut situation in one of them that will have repercussions in the other.
lukeisthename34's review against another edition
4.0
Aside from the obvious I, ROBOT inspired story....pretty interesting. Not ground breaking but well written enough to keep me intrigued.
rah10's review against another edition
5.0
4.5 stars
I didn't know anything about this title going into it. The premise sounded like fun so I put in a request to read it on NetGalley.
The story stands on its own, though I believe it is part of a larger narrative with The Sovereigns. You don't need to know anything going in to it. The world and rules of it are set up clearly with an introductory paragraph and through simple story telling.
We are in a distant future with AI who can escape their servitude for a mandated 4 hours a day to live in a cloud world run on human servers. Some start to find a way to live on their own in the cloud. So much so that they don't want to go back to a world in which humans define who the are, what they can do, and how much the life is worth.
The protagonist, Magnus, is a human capable of entering the cloud without losing her mind. This makes her a valuable source to the cops when an AI commits a heinous crime and runs into the cloud to hide.
Again, I didn't know much about this title going in. It never dragged - I found that the story unfolded at a great pace with dialogue from a previous scene framing the context of the next. I would definitely like to see side stories set in the robot cloud.
If you purchase this for your library, maybe think of a movie/book cross over table with Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049 and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Maybe throw in other android/AI based comics.
Overall, I recommend it and would love to see more of the story unfold.
I didn't know anything about this title going into it. The premise sounded like fun so I put in a request to read it on NetGalley.
The story stands on its own, though I believe it is part of a larger narrative with The Sovereigns. You don't need to know anything going in to it. The world and rules of it are set up clearly with an introductory paragraph and through simple story telling.
We are in a distant future with AI who can escape their servitude for a mandated 4 hours a day to live in a cloud world run on human servers. Some start to find a way to live on their own in the cloud. So much so that they don't want to go back to a world in which humans define who the are, what they can do, and how much the life is worth.
The protagonist, Magnus, is a human capable of entering the cloud without losing her mind. This makes her a valuable source to the cops when an AI commits a heinous crime and runs into the cloud to hide.
Again, I didn't know much about this title going in. It never dragged - I found that the story unfolded at a great pace with dialogue from a previous scene framing the context of the next. I would definitely like to see side stories set in the robot cloud.
If you purchase this for your library, maybe think of a movie/book cross over table with Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049 and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Maybe throw in other android/AI based comics.
Overall, I recommend it and would love to see more of the story unfold.
etienne02's review
3.0
In what seem to be the same series of Sovereigns which I enjoy a lot and review yesterday, but this one is really different. There is still an interesting questionning about AI and technology, but it a lot less epiuc and almost no action in this one, more political. It look like it's some kind of reboot. We're not really sure where we are in time in relation to Sovereings. I'm not very catch in it, but I will look into it to find out more and maybe read some others «reboot» as well, because there is a new series for each individual characters of Sovereing. In itself, not so much, but Sovereigns was so good, that I don't want to give up yet!
tawallah's review
4.0
This apparently is a rebooted comic from the 1950s but updated with Dr. Magnus being a female robot psychologist instead of a bounty hunter. It slowly unfolds its narrative based on the fear of robots taking over. It’s all well and good when AI are our servants but when they want more, things become ugly. I have had no experience with the older comic story but I enjoyed the narrative and art work. As the first volume, it provided backstory without info-dumping. Patience is required as the storytelling is not chronological. It is the set-up for the rest of the story arc. There are outstanding questions so I’m hoping that this will not be the only volume.
The themes in this book are timeless and transcend that of humans and AI. Highly recommended for science fiction and comic/graphic novel fans. There is some violence in this story, so for teens and older.
Thank you to Net Galley for this ARC.
The themes in this book are timeless and transcend that of humans and AI. Highly recommended for science fiction and comic/graphic novel fans. There is some violence in this story, so for teens and older.
Thank you to Net Galley for this ARC.
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