A Red Mass For Mars #1-3 (Of 4)

is a story about the death of utopia, the last days of Earth and the one man who could save us all - but won't. Jonathan Hickman again explores his recurrent themes of systems that both demoralize and dehumanize the individual but in as bleak a setting as possible, the post-apocalyptic world of 2115. His tone evokes Warren Ellis: the detached narrator calmly describing the indescribable; matter-of-fact descriptions of cataclysmic events; heroes as ordinary men and women simply doing their jobs, not as idealized figures of worship. Yet he infuses his story with his own sense of irony that at the same time manages to avoid the usual cliches inherent in such a storyine. Well, Hickman has one more issue to go before we can say that he has pulled it off.


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