Nonplayer #2

Nonplayer #2

by Nate Simpson

THE SOLD-OUT SERIES RETURNS with a muchanticipated new chapter! Bent on avenging the death of his queen, game character King Heremoth seeks vengeance against Dana, an unwitting tamale delivery girl. Meanwhile, strange things are afoot in future Los Angeles as a police standoff at a fish market reveals a homicidal robot armed only with seafood.

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction, Comic Book, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics

31 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 3, 2015

Reviews

[Drew Canole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Greatly expands the world and premise teased at in issue 1. It's a shame Simpson wasn't able to finish the story. There was also a movie/series teased! It's still worth a read even incomplete.

[Blue · Rating 5 out of 5]

Second in the series is very different in feel: gone are all the organic lush stuff, replaced with robots and machines and a big city of sorts. But we learn more about the game and that there is something called the Red Sword (a terrorist group?) who may or may not be responsible for a recent AI-gone-crazy attack in the fish market.

My only complaint is: those don't look like tamales, they look like empanadas!

[Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

A crazy robot speaking in latin and throwing fish at people - I love this!

[Nathan Duvall · Rating 2 out of 5]

This story and world have promise but issue #2 is all over the place. We jump from the MMO world is issue #1 to the real world in Issue #2 with essentially no story progression within the game. I have read many stories about people living inside video games and coming back to the real world. You have to separate the two worlds and keep the story moving forward instead of jumping back and forth between both. It makes for a jumbled mess and can be confusing for the reader.

This came out in 2015 before AI and it’s talking about how AI could be coming alive in the game and bleeding into the real world. That’s a great premise but it wasn’t executed properly. It looks like we will never get another issue. That’s unfortunate.

[John Esse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cyberpunk techno-fantasy? Yes please. It doesn't get any better than this. How does this not have thousands of reviews?

[Marco Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

This second book is much more complex than I anticipated. The art and worldbuilding are very good and the story evolved in a surprising way... It's easy to spot some of the influences but that doesn't matter at all. I think the first and second volume should be one book. I'm very curious to see what will happen next.

[Adam McPhee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the most beautiful art I've ever seen in a comic book, and an interesting story as well. Hopefully we get issue three before the end of the decade!