Ancestor

by Matt Sheean, Malachi Ward, Matt Sheean (Artist), Malachi Ward (Artist)

Overview

In rare lucid moments you see that you are enslaved. You tell yourself that The Service is a helpful interface providing your mind with continual aid and stimulation, but you know it's a lie.

Patrick Whiteside can help you. He doesn't require much: An open mind. Determination. The ability to make sacrifices.

Let Whiteside help you.

From the pages of BRANDON GRAHAM's ISLAND comes the debut science fiction epic by MATT SHEEAN and MALACHI WARD.

Collects "ANCESTOR" from issues 3, 5, 7 and 9 of ISLAND.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632159236
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	10/25/2016
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	13 - 16 Years

Editorial Reviews

12/05/2016
Sheean (Love Your Geek) and Ward (From Now On) imagine a “perfected” version of humankind in this beautiful and weird SF graphic novel. In the future, the Internet has been replaced by the Service, a personalized function that combines an advanced heads-up display with information assistance and various programs that interface directly with one’s own biology and neurochemistry. Artist Peter Chardin is taken to a party at the house of Patrick Whiteside, one of the creators of the Service, where megalomaniac Whiteside reveals his plan to upgrade humanity. Peter’s existence is radically altered without his initial consent and he becomes a being of seemingly limitless power. The final quarter of the story follows Peter in this new form. Sheean and Ward’s images have a flat but sharply delineated style, and a limited palette of colors exhibits a stay-within-the-lines quality despite the increasingly phantasmagoric subject of the images. The effect is jarring, as was no doubt the intent. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly