Man Plus #1

Man Plus (Single Issues) #1

by André Lima Araújo

A MUST HAVE FOR FANS OF AKIRA AND GHOST IN THE SHELL!

Welcome to Olissipo City - a shimmering metropolis where technology rules with a heavy hand, cyborg strike teams are commonplace, and the lines between man and machine grow hazier every day.

From artist/writer André Lima Araújo (Avengers AI, Ultimate FF, Age of Apocalypse) comes this high-octane dystopian thriller that whisks the reader into the thick of a robotic skirmish and the unsettling conspiracy that lies at its heart…

Genres: Comics

Paperback

Published July 8, 2015

About the author

André Lima Araújo is a Portuguese architect and comics creator. Soon after graduating in University of Minho he began his career at Marvel Comics, working on titles such as Fantastic Four, Avengers AI, Spider-Verse, Inhumans, Spidey and Black Panther, among many others. He has contributed illustrations to a number of additional publications and, in parallel, creates and develops his own comic projects, publishing Man Plus (Titan Comics) and Generation Gone (co-created with Ales Kot, Image Comics). When he isn’t working, André likes being with his family, reading history books, driving and playing videogames. He lives in Portugal with his wife.



Photo by João Almeida

Reviews

[Russio]

Blade Runner in Portugal, essentially. Interestingly it treads some BR2049 territory a little unexpectedly but the premise is so “borrowed” that all the references to cyber-anthropology cannot diminish this fact.

Towards the end of the book some interesting conversations are had, between an android and policeman but this is little and late and the teeing up for a series seems to be the paramount principle at work.

Still, I guess it is for a younger audience and there is loads much worse that they could be wasting their time upon. And added to this there is an older, female boss and a predominance of females in the police team (even if two are somewhat sidelined) so there is progress here.

[Draorm Rayversul]

Ghost in the shell copy.