The Surrogates (Surrogates (Graphic Novels))
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1891830872 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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But to do so they'll need to stop a techno-terrorist bent on returning society to a time when people lived their lives instead of merely experiencing them. It's a perfect world, and it's up to Detectives Harvey Greer and Pete Ford of the Metro Police Department to keep it that way. The year is 2054, and life has been reduced to a data feed. The fusing of virtual reality and cybernetics has ushered in the era of the surrogate, a new technology that lets users interact with the world without ever leaving their homes. Welcome to The Surrogates, a daring, five-issue, full-color miniseries coming this July from Top Shelf Productions.
highly entertaining The "surrogates" is a master piece in the sci-fi comic book genre. This book is a perfect blending of science fiction, sociology, and an engaging story line. I cannot wait for the next installment in the series. Read it now before the feature film is released.. Simply amazing and original story. Ricardo Not a huge reader of the graphic novels, but I heard about the film and the whole concept of the book was interesting. The novel was compelling, original, and entertaining. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys action and science fiction.. Marching Through Georgia indeed. Robert Beveridge Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, The Surrogates (Top Shelf, 2006)It is by now a Hollywood cliché, not to mention a Hollywood truism, that the book is better than the movie. And that is certainly the case where The Surrogates is concerned. That said, in some ironic way, reading Robert Venditti's original source material gave me a slightly greater respect for Jonathan Mostow's bloated, listless adaptation. I can see why he made th
. As a change of pace from typical superheroic fare, this volume comes heartily recommended. His attacks stem from an agenda that seeks to disconnect humanity from its dependence on "surrogates," androids that the consumer can link with and allow to carry out the user's life, acting as a full-time stand-in. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly The year is 2054, and the Central Georgia Metropolis is held in a grip of fear by a series of crimes committed by the mysterious lightning-wielding techno-terrorist dubbed Steeplejack. This quietly bleak scenario is capably illustrated by Weldele in a straightforward style reminiscent of film storyboards. Basically a straight police procedural laced with science-fiction trappings, Venditti's script offers a convincing future in which mankind doesn't realize that the virtual reality of the surrogat