Howard Tayler

Ok, I didn't expect to adore this one, but I do. It really ramped up gloriously and kinda blew my mind with its great uses of nanotech, AI, dark matter monsters, and silly amorphs who are too stupid to know they can't fly without a full kit. The pacing was fantastic and even got my heart pumping near the end even if this was supposed to be a humorous space opera comic. Great stuff!

This might just be my favourite book in the series. From start to finish we had a wonderful setup with a 30 million person station full of hungry anarchists (sorry, i mean adherents of democracy), crazies with antimatter annihilation factories, and the all-time best robotic hero and pallet-master, The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse. It had all the best elements of a heroic story, right down to a capital-class starship bouncing around like a pinball inside an extra-large Rama city and a show more classic stare into the abyss cinematic.

The whole story was smooth as ice-cream and just as delicious. show less

So, does massively parallel refer to massively parallel serial killings, or storylines? Answer? Both.

I'm appreciating the amount of skill put into this storytelling. It could have been pulled off so much worse, but instead, I feel like I just got woven into a nice little rug. I am hugely entertained.

I've even got the ride of the valkyries playing to a great rhythmset in my imagination, now, and that was just on a few hints in the comic. That's impressive. And scary.

After a slow start, the action picked up quite nicely, building to planetary action, then dyson sphere singularity action, all the way to a little lunacy. I"m very impressed with the stories and the sci-fi. The art is getting better, too. I think I've found my next favorite comic, but I'll be honest, it only grows on you with repetition. Like Schlock. And plasma burns. And Gravy.