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A.I. Volume 1: Human After All (2014)

by Sam Humphries(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0785184910 (ISBN13: 9780785184911)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Marvel

review 1: This follows right after Age of Ultron, and I thought I would like it more than I did. It takes some existing characters and a couple of new ones (or new to me) and mashes them together because they are all artificial intelligences (plus Hank Pym and a SHIELD liason). I liked that Victor Mancha from the Runaways was included, but he bears little resemblance to the character from those stories in any way save his powers. The Doombot is rather amusing, as people have noted. The storyline is kind of all over the place. I'm not sure I'm interested in continuing to read this, despite my desire to follow the Runaways throughout comicdom... and this is the second time that has happened, which is sad.
review 2: The concept of this is much more interesting than the book... more itself. All of the characters are AI and while that makes for an interesting idea, it's really hard to draw emotion out of characters that have no emotion to begin with. Some parts of this story were supposed to tug at you just a little bit, but instead you find yourself watching robots do what every other superhero team does. One wonders if maybe they're emulating those people who save the world that they were created after and were meant to work alongside of. It's a really great idea, but it could have been so, so, so much better than it was. less

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