SCI-FI COMIC NEXUS

A genetically engineered virus with VERY specific targets... Mind transference machines for the terminally ill... A mechanised battlesuit that does whatever it must to keep going, utilising any available energy source at its disposal.... A collection of scenarios in which the reader's expectations are chillingly subverted: The Theory (Neil Gibson's Twisted Sci-Fi) by writers David Court, Forrest Helvie and Neil Gibson, and artists Amrit Birdi, Atula Siriwardane, Cem Iroz, Davide Puppo, Jane Elphick, Jim Terry, Phil Buckenham and V.W. Glass is an anthology of tales of alien worlds, powerful technology and the choices and actions of individuals in the efforts for social change. If we can alter things for the better, don't we have the obligation to do so? But how do we decide which outcomes are better than others? And can we accurately predict the consequences of our well-intentioned meddling? The stories are framed by a series of communiqués between Space Admiral Puppo (suit...

When a mass of dark matter passes close to the Sun and drains a huge chunk of its hydrogen, life on Earth becomes severely time-limited. Having made no progress in living off-planet, the human race is doomed... but then help arrives in the form of a message from deep space. An advanced extraterrestrial race from the planet Kepler 186-f knows of the plight of Earth and sends details of the technology needed to build faster-than-light space arks. Construction soon begins and within twenty years three arks are created, capable of carrying a few thousand people to the homeworld of the alien benefactors. In addition to specialised personnel, the lucky few are chosen by lottery. The rest of humanity is left behind to cope as best they can in a world where all government - all law and order - has collapsed. And for all their splendour and vison, the arks are not free from discord either... Stable by writers Matthew Medley and Morgan Rosenblum and artist Francesco Pisa is an epic tale of surv...

  "He called me an ambulance, Rachael. He saved me life." *sigh* ... "No, Leo. He protected the manufacturer's investment." Leo Joof is an average actor and ocassional go-go dancer in Hollywood; young and photogenic but not terribly successful... but this is Hollywood following the historic signing of the Bernays Act: "a redefinition of planet Earth as a non-stop completely immersive marketing environment in which all global citizens are participants." What that means is the total obliteration of the dividing line between real life and the chaotic nightmare dimension of commercial advertising. You can do anything, commit any crime, with total immunity if it is part of a business promotion. So, when Leo deliberately crashes a car, limping from the wreckage and leaving his passenger dead in order to promote a new movie, he is not liable for reckless endangerment or even homicide.  As dystopias go, this is a pretty unique one; not the usual dictartorship ...