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M.I.C.R.A.: Graphic Album No. 1
She could save America - or destroyed it! The most terrifying weapon ever created...M.I.C.R.A. - The Mind Controlled Remote Automaton. Collecting M.I.C.R.A. #1-3.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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January 4, 2017
If you like reading graphic novels about dystopian futures, you are in for a treat. In the year 2048, the America and Earth's environment has become hazardous due to pollution. Humanity is divided between social classes ("insiders" and "outsiders"). 9% of Americans now live in Air-Supported Domes (A.S.D.) cities while the rest migrate to rapidly growing slums in relativity contam-free parts of the country, where crime rate increases daily. As a direct result, martial law decreed that now outsider be permitted inside the ASDs and treating them like second class citizens. Radicals, Free America Now (F.A.N.), break away from the Council for a Free America (C.F.A.) and use violence to achieve an end martial law.
Our story is focused on a spoiled rich inside college student named Angela Griffin, whom to her knowledge, does not know that she was born outside of the ASDs. One night while she was partying with her friends at a indoor resort, a terrorist "Outside" rebels attack and cause Angela to be paralyzed. With the approval of her college professor and the U.S. Army, who want to exploit the use of a full scale M.I.C.R.A. (mind controlled remote automaton) unit for military use, Angela becomes a human test subject to host and controller of the android which responds physically to Angela's thoughts. After discovering MICRA's self-defense functions, she has to deal with protecting ASDs from terrorist attacks lead by a ruthless woman named Rita, who turns out to be Angela's older sister and an army general who wants to keep the status quo between insiders and outsiders.
Now this seems like a mix between James Cameron's Avatar and RoboCop, but it's still an interesting graphic novel to read despite the fact that the story remains unfinished with only just seven single issues and one trade paperback. If you enjoy science-fiction stories about androids, mind uploading, and dystopian futures, you will not disappointed and, if you are like me, you would want the author to finish the story as it was meant to be told.
Our story is focused on a spoiled rich inside college student named Angela Griffin, whom to her knowledge, does not know that she was born outside of the ASDs. One night while she was partying with her friends at a indoor resort, a terrorist "Outside" rebels attack and cause Angela to be paralyzed. With the approval of her college professor and the U.S. Army, who want to exploit the use of a full scale M.I.C.R.A. (mind controlled remote automaton) unit for military use, Angela becomes a human test subject to host and controller of the android which responds physically to Angela's thoughts. After discovering MICRA's self-defense functions, she has to deal with protecting ASDs from terrorist attacks lead by a ruthless woman named Rita, who turns out to be Angela's older sister and an army general who wants to keep the status quo between insiders and outsiders.
Now this seems like a mix between James Cameron's Avatar and RoboCop, but it's still an interesting graphic novel to read despite the fact that the story remains unfinished with only just seven single issues and one trade paperback. If you enjoy science-fiction stories about androids, mind uploading, and dystopian futures, you will not disappointed and, if you are like me, you would want the author to finish the story as it was meant to be told.
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