Únete al futuro (Aftershock)

Join The Future #1-5

by Zack Kaplan, Piotr Kowalski, Víctor Manuel García de Isusi (Translator)

Un cómic de ciencia ficción y del oeste que examina un futuro en el que todos nos preguntaremos si de verdad merece la pena tener valores.

"Bienvenido al futuro

Megaciudades ultramodernas recompensan a millones de ciudadanos con una vida muelle en la que satisfacen todas sus comida, vivienda y cuidados sanitarios. El objetivo es alcanzar un poder económico sin igual, para lo que la población resulta clave.

No obstante, aún quedan unos pocos pueblecitos cuyos habitantes se aferran a su independencia. Así, cuando una megaciudad comienza a presionar a la gente de un pueblo cercano para que se una a ella, una de las pueblerinas, Clementine Libbey, acabará descubriendo hasta dónde es capaz de llegar para defender sus principios.

Escrito por Zack Kaplan (Los exploradores de la Ciudad Perdida, Port Earth, Eclipse) y dibujado por Piotr Kowalski (Sex, Marvel Hulk, The Dark Tower,  Únete al futuro es un cómic de ciencia ficción y del oeste que examina un futuro en el que todos nos preguntaremos si de verdad merece la pena tener valores. En este volumen se incluyen los números 1 a 5 de la serie

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Science Fiction

142 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 19, 2021

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 5 out of 5]

Join the Future is about a future where megacities started gobbling up the small towns around them, offering prosperity and advanced technology as incentives to become a citizen and offering the whip instead when refused. One girl decides to stand up to them and the freedom to make her own choice.

Zack Kaplan is an up and coming comic writer. Eclipse is also very good. This was great. It had a Western feel to it while being set 40 years in the future. Piotr Kowalski art has vastly improved since I first saw it in one of the Dark Tower miniseries.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Snabba vändningar och coolt världsbygge med bra tecknarstil. Den här gillade jag!

[Oneirosophos · Rating 2 out of 5]

Strong start, boring ending.

Nothing special, overall...

Cowboys vs "the future".

[Rebekah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything I wanted.

[Tracy]

Bailed halfway. The author says in the afterword this is a nonpolitical premise, but I heard strong undertones of "the rich and spoiled city folk" versus "the real Americans who have values" 😒 I'm not into the cult of rugged individualism. Making the place with Universal Basic Income and universal healthcare and guaranteed housing the dystopia made me roll my eyes. Yeah we get it you hate socialism. They even had the city folk reintroduce wolves to restore the ecosystem because "they're dumb and don't get it" -- and of course an individual wolf 😒 attacks a person who had been shooting moments before 🙄

[Deb Omnivorous Reader · Rating 3 out of 5]

When sci-fi or dystopia meets a love of Westerns great things cane happen (Firefly is a stand out in that genera for me) and this is a great concept for a comic that allows for some spectacular scenes and artwork. The story did not quite live up to the concept, for me, but it was good.

Clementine is a teenager in one of the last, holdout small towns of America, when the neighbouring mega city kills her family in a bit to wipe out the town, Clem goes rogue in pursuit of revenge, gunslinger style. Just a girl and her horse against the big, bad guy corporations. It is pretty fun.


In THIS future, futuristic cities have sucked the manpower out of all the American small towns around them. This is an economic plan, once the citizens are absorbed, the small towns are raised and the land returned to it's natural state. I have mixed feelings here: continents with the environment fully restores are high on my list of ideal things that COULD happen, obviously. On the other hand, treating people as a resource is weird, and I wonder if we are looking at a Make Room! Make Room! type scenario down the track. The next episode would show our heroine going into the city.

[Rory Wilding · Rating 2 out of 5]

Set in a future where megacities are considered the promised land where people can live under the economic power and technological advances of these buildings, there are rural towns like Franklin that choose to retain their tech-free independence. When the townspeople of Franklin are hit hard by the ultramodern authorities of a nearby megacity, the Mayor’s strong-willed teenage daughter, Clementine Libbey, goes on a quest of revenge and resistance as she challenges the city’s control, while clinging to her small-town principles.

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[Devon Munn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despite some pacing issues this is a pretty solid book!

Also the ending kind of confused me So after all that she goes to the city to "pay a debt" what does she mean? Revenge? Awareing people? I dont know

[Michael Prewitt · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s an interesting premise and could have been good, but wasn’t. Bland, boring, predictable. Kowalski’s art takes it up to 3 stars.

[Stuart · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was too short to truly get invested.

[Bryan A. Arriola · Rating 4 out of 5]

This story hits several important themes of a western and does it so well. I loved reading it

[Matteo G · Rating 2 out of 5]

Printing and pictures were quite nice but the story was really empty