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Mara (2013)

by Brian Wood(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1607068109 (ISBN13: 9781607068105)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Image Comics

review 1: The pacing was a little weird and it seemed like something that would've fit an ongoing series more than a miniseries, but it was still very much enjoyable. It's sort of a postmodern look at the super-human, and a thought experiment on how society processes and reacts to superhumanism in the digital age. Also, Mara's "superhero narrative" wasn't tragic or destructive, which you see fairly often with concept pieces like this, so that was cool.
review 2: An interesting concept that fell short in it's execution - at least for me. It felt oddly hollow. Mara's personality and existence from the beginning seems unreal, disconnected & detached which only gets increasingly worse as she literally becomes less human. I had hoped her evolution into a meta-human ubermensch... more would allow me to see a complex persona underneath but this ice queen never seemed to thaw. Even the strange dystopian world she inhabits failed to grab my imagination as those bizarre society thought-experiments usually do. less

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