It still wouldn't equal the enormous blocks of monologue which fill this book. It's pretty substandard cyberpunk and low bar as far as comics go. The title was cool and the art was good but the main character and the writing surrounding her are a mess.
The first issue doesn't really do as much to kick off the story as you would expect, as it delivers very little actual story due to having to share space with unending parades of text as the main character essentially feels bad for herself.
For people who are tech savvy, the writing is phenomenally more awful. The lack of understanding concerning technology is beyond average, approaching spunky-hollywood-movie-that-thinks-it's-slick-but-actually-is-wildly-inaccurate levels of bad. You haven't seen incompetence on this scale since, well.. the last time you saw a typical "tech nerd" wildly slapping and clacking at a keyboard in an effort to stop a sever hack in real time.
It is that level of cringe. Which, if this weren't a comic book about technology and a character who is apparently amazing at making use of it, that'd be passable fare. If this were aimed at small children? Also would be passable. But it doesn't appear to be. It looks like it's meant for the young adult crowd. It definitely delivers on the aimless angst and inner monologues.
"There's something UNDER the code!" is probably a bit of a paraphrase, that is a scene. I'm not even kidding.
Narration, plot, interesting characters, or even the barest sense of a competent hook? Not so much.
Maybe I'm being too harsh, but I love cyberpunk, and the writing feels as if it has no over sight or much in the way of editing at all.
2/5. Good art, the characters are visually interesting through out (except for "Mr.Reynolds".. whose nose needed some work, seriously, but that slight can be forgiven in the grand scheme of things). The rest doesn't keep up though.
You want a good futuristic story about a strong female lead with parental issues? Play Horizon Zero Dawn. Trust me, you won't regret it.
