Synap

by Chris Moses, James Offredi (colorist), Reed Hinckley-Barnes (letterer)

This high sci-fi adventure series will definitely attract fans of Evangelion and Gundam Wing, along with fans of anyone who enjoys soap opera turmoil focused on found family.

In the year 2030, a family-run private defense company, Synap, secretly puts together the pieces of a mysterious giant robot while training psychically gifted individuals to one day control it. However, with the startling increase in UFO sightings, the family finds their time is running out to assemble the ancient machine.

Genres: Graphic Novels

120 pages, Paperback

Published June 24, 2025

Reviews

[RatGrrrl · Rating 1 out of 5]

I received an ARC through NetGalley for an honest review.

Look, I'm sorry to be another person saying what in the poor Neon Genesis Evangelion clone is this?!

But what is it?

There's some interesting ideas here, but there's no connection or explanation for anything. No motivation or emotion or drive.

I'm genuinely flabbergasted.

The script is really not very good. The artwork is OK.

This feels like a rather amateur production and passion project.

I'm sorry.

[James DeSantis · Rating 1 out of 5]

Chris Moses' Synap seems like a sci-fi adventure for fans of Evangelion (A little too much, even the way the characters act/look feels like it's ripped right out of there) and Gundam Wing, with a focus on found families.

But for me, it was really confusing. The idea of the Synap company building a secret giant robot didn't make much sense, and the small amount of talking didn't help explain things. The story felt really unclear. Plus, the art wasn't always good – sometimes it looked fine, other times it was messy.

Overall, Synap just didn't click with me, and I spent most of the time not knowing what was going on.

[Dean · Rating 2 out of 5]

The art and colours are good. I feel like I'm missing something with the story. I don't understand this robot completely. It landed 250 million years ago. Was it one or many? Why is it this one family that has control over it? Money I guess. No one has ever piloted it? Shouldn't the priority be retrieving all parts first?

China is bad? What's going on with the white tubes? Why are some of the past proposed pilots blanked out? I assume one or some of them will come back as villains in future instalments. Why is there a ninth pilot who isn't being trained along side the eighth pilot?

Too many unanswered questions in an unsatisfying way. Sometimes unanswered questions, maybe ambiguity mores, is interesting. This feels like plot holes. Worth reading digitally.

[Curious Madra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Thanks Netgalley and publisher for allowing me to read this weird graphic novel.

Like honestly it’s weird that there was just so many time skips, so many new characters without intros and personalities. I think it is disappointing tbh as the art made me have high expectations for “superhero-like” content but instead I got bored of it all..

[Skye · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meh. I was really excited to read this because I’m a big Evangelion fan, but it missed the mark for me. The story is about a family who are secretly training to control an ancient machine. The story felt rushed and I didn’t connect with any of the characters. The artwork was nice though. The concept is cool but the story was too much of an Evangelion copy cat.

Thank you, NetGalley and Mad Cave Studios, for the ARC.