Red Light #4

Red Light #4

by Sarah H. Cho (Writer), Priscilla Petraites (Illustrator), C.P. Smith (Illustrator)

FINAL ISSUE! Lacy’s escape may have failed, but now she has bigger plans! With her escape proving to be short lived, sophisticated A.I. sex worker Lacy finds herself back in the brothel that’s the only home she’s ever known. But her yearning for freedom has not been extinguished—and this time Lacy doesn't intend to just escape. She’s going to bring down the whole brothel, defeat her domineering creator, Mister, and unlock the secret of Natalie, the young girl who has come into her care.

Genres: Comics

29 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 21, 2024

About the author

Sarah H. Cho is a screenwriter who works in both TV and Features. She previously staffed on THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE for Hulu and the second season of THEM for Amazon. She has several projects in development in both the animation and live action space. Her projects cover a wide breadth of genres including drama, comedy, horror, action, and more. She’s also currently writing a graphic novel, a narrative podcast, and a short story anthology. She got her start through the Universal Writers Program and she’s repped by CAA and Grandview Management.

Reviews

[Jayson · Rating 3 out of 5]

(B+) 76% | Good
Notes: Read in trade paperback. Collective review for issues #1-4 can be found here: Red Light.

[Cristina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful VERY short read. It plays with a lot of the dystopian future what-ifs and considerations: i.e. AI prostitutes, AI rights/freedoms, what is a human/what is AI, etc.
The lead is a new kind of AI since she has an empathy upgrade, which allows her to track/diagnose pleasure back to her customers, as well as learn from each experience.
GORGEOUS sci fi classic comic book artwork and aesthetic, they even have the newspaper print colored dots which I like *nostalgic vibes (artist: Priscilla Petraites)
note: I read it in the smaller comic book sized chunks, to make up the "vol 1"

#4 Spoiler summary:
natalie and lacy are back in mister's compound/warehouse. despite benson giving up their location, lacy forgives him and does not abandon him/taking him with her in her escape. mister takes natalie to the lab. natalie is an [illegal] clone for mister's dead wife. she has a wonderful message to the public about what is really "life" and adam tells the story of mary before he lets them go. natalie, benson, and lacy get on a train out of the city and start their life.

[Vinay Mistry · Rating 1 out of 5]

Everything really just fell off a cliff in this volume, art style got suddenly inconsistent, too much change between panels. It was a rushed ending, it was poor, I'm glad it was free on globalcomix because this is not something worth money.

[Kelly Doran · Rating 1 out of 5]

Feminist power fantasy

Margaret cho wants to make owning a flesh light a crime worthy of death. The first ones alright then lacy becomes stronk wahmens. I really don't know who her audience is

[Jeff Mayo · Rating 1 out of 5]

The series ended up with everything getting resolved. What started out as a great, X rated, dystopian nightmare, quickly devolved into a contrived series of events to keep the story going. If the escape, as shown in this issue, was so easy, why didn't they do that to begin with?

[Yasser Maniram · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good read albeit the subject matter can be somewhat depressing.

[Selva · Rating 4 out of 5]

mmm medio no tan bueno el final

[Javen Robinson]

Wrapped up pretty nicely. Short 4 issue series but I could see it running longer