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Black Science, Vol.1: How To Fall Forever (2014)

by Rick Remender(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1607069679 (ISBN13: 9781607069676)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Image Comics

series

Black Science

review 1: okay, i guess, but not spectacular. both the circular writing and the illustrations make it difficult to differentiate between the characters. and nobody in the story is likable or even interesting, so it was difficult to make the effort to differentiate them. especially since their character tended to change with every iteration thrown up. the lead scientist is also unbelievably indifferent to the ethical and physical-universe implications of his time travel technology, while oddly focussed on berating himself for his purely personal failings. meanwhile the altworlds to which they travel are not very imaginative: all the aliens are variations on earth animals, every one of whom is trying to kill them. i get that the whole thing was based on Golden Age pulp SF, but the re... moresult here is more of a simplistic parody. and the abrupt shifts in the narrative as the Pillar jumps destabilize all the worlds don't really work as narrative - instead the suspicion arises that the rips-in-the-fabric-of-reality storylines were designed simply to jerk the reader around from one issue to the next. v2 might get better, but i'll never know.
review 2: I am as blown away by Black Science as I was Manifest Destiny. This is good, pulpy science fiction the way everyone tries to make it but never can. Rick Remender keeps the pace at a heart-pounding constant trajectory, like a comet blowing through a black hole. It follows the story of dimensionauts with a broken portal device. They are trying to find their way home, but Remender finds ways to keep us fixated on the story. This isn't something you can read casually and put down. It is something that must be consumed all at once. less

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