The First Principle Part 1

Hyper Scape #1

by Christofer Emgård, Marielle Quesney, Jesse Scoble

The year is 2054. The world has turned darker over the last three decades, making for a hard day-to-day existence. People have found solace in the HYPER SCAPE—a virtual landscape where recreation, entertainment, and social community are accessed in the blink of an eye. An upgrade to the system is about to be unveiled, revolutionizing the experience . . . but at what cost?

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction

12 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 2, 2020

Reviews

[Adrian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Welcome to 2054. For 99% of the 9.9 billion, climate change, forced migration, workforce automation, failing infrastructure, and overburdened social services make for a harsh day-to-day existence. Instead people find their refuge in the HYPER SCAPE: a one-of-a-kind virtual landscape run by the world’s greatest megacorp, Prisma Dimensions. It is used to access games, shopping, social communities, interactive experiences, and more.

The HYPER SCAPE is the newest frontier, a virtual gold rush of a new age…

Currently free to buy on Amazon this 4 part series opens with Prisma Dimensions preparing for the launch of their latest virtual reality offering, a total emersion system called B-Link 2.0. Whilst looking over the test subjects, Simon Jepsen, one of the tech engineers, stops an issue. Upon investigation he finds a number of test subject had slipped into comas during the trials and the data had been hidden away. Consulting with the head engineer, Mathieu Eiffel, the decide the launch cannot go ahead. However, Prisma Dimensions have different ideas....

A good opening that sets the basis for the story up well.

[Tristan · Rating 2 out of 5]

The French translation of this comic is currently free on Kindle. Gosh this is well trodden ground. The upgrade of a global virtual reality system has a bug that causes some users to fall into a coma, but the greedy shareholders want the launch to go ahead regardless, and anyone who stands in the way comes to a sticky end. Woo. Seen that before. The art is passable, a bit stiff and clinical. Really not inspired, this one.

[DOUGLAS J BERRY · Rating 5 out of 5]

Virtual reality still involves humans

Good color artwork. Dark horse freebie. This would be easier to review if it was 32 pages. A brilliant scientist is betrayed by the corporation suits. Pretty typical story that you could tell in your sleep. It would be more interesting if the scientist was cold blooded about his experiments and the corporation defended their customer base?

[Andy Febrico Bintoro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Western fully immerse virtual reality story

I found this comic on the Kindle, and from this first issue, this comic seems interesting. Usually this kind of story popular on Korean and Chinese light novel nowadays, interesting enough to read the western version of virtual reality story.