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A review by iffer
Memetic by James Tynion IV
3.0
Hmm...not quite sure how I felt after reading this, and I'm not exactly sure what to write about it, which is why I'm going to continue to write a rambling review.
The last issue ends with a conversation between the writer James Tynion IV and the artist Eryk Donovan, and it seems that, like the random-ass sloth meme in the series, they weren't necessarily trying to convey specific "messages" either. Tynion says, "That's all I wanted to do here. Write something that made you guys feel something palpable and strange. Something that made you look at the world a LITTLE differently." If I use this as a measuring stick, then I think that Tynion accomplished his goal.
There are well-recognizable elements from horror and apocalyptic works. At its core, Memetic is a zombie apocalypse comic, except the vector is a meme and aliens/angels (Wha...?) might be involved. Sometimes Memetic felt too trope-ish for me, but at other times, Tynion achieves a surprisingly fresh effect on the readers. I enjoyed that, as any good short story does, Memetic made me wonder about the future toward which humans were evolving, the effects of increasingly rapid technology-aided communication/networking, and the value of the individual/conforming.
The last issue ends with a conversation between the writer James Tynion IV and the artist Eryk Donovan, and it seems that, like the random-ass sloth meme in the series, they weren't necessarily trying to convey specific "messages" either. Tynion says, "That's all I wanted to do here. Write something that made you guys feel something palpable and strange. Something that made you look at the world a LITTLE differently." If I use this as a measuring stick, then I think that Tynion accomplished his goal.
There are well-recognizable elements from horror and apocalyptic works. At its core, Memetic is a zombie apocalypse comic, except the vector is a meme and aliens/angels (Wha...?) might be involved. Sometimes Memetic felt too trope-ish for me, but at other times, Tynion achieves a surprisingly fresh effect on the readers. I enjoyed that, as any good short story does, Memetic made me wonder about the future toward which humans were evolving, the effects of increasingly rapid technology-aided communication/networking, and the value of the individual/conforming.