Fiction has subgenres that touch on the afterlife. There, the dead are left to wander as ghostly figures to witness what is happening in the living world. The most popular of these stories may be the 1990 film Ghost. Patrick Sways plays a restless soul that sets off to save his living girlfriend, played by Demi Moore. The film is specially mentioned in a new graphic novel by Brian K. Vaughn and audience Nico Henricon. Here, one character calls the current situation the opposite of Ghost.
The book begins today as we were raised by her date when Val, who writes a summary of the TV show, appeared in cinemas in New York. What’s worse, she and the other attendees are about to become victims of mass shootings. Wake up to discover that she is dead, she walks as a spirit through the world currently presented in black and white. Over the course of hundreds of years, Val crosses paths with a fellow audience named Sam, a man with a mysterious gun from the distant past. Typically, solo travelers, the two decide to see the march of society’s advances in search of a threesome, and look at the world towards collapse.
Reunion of the two creators behind the pride of Baghdad’s dizzy novels expects something unconventional, despite a rather worn-out premise. Even black and white presentations seem to be lifted from film-like things like the issues of life and death and the wings of desire. Instead of showing how to fully understand her situation, through Val’s lens presented as a gateway into the audience’s world, the book’s time jump allows humanity to look more retrospectively at life, allowing them to see things they have not actually learned from history.
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Between more than 300 pages, the audience mainly acts as a double header between Val and Sam, each presenting at a different period of time than the rest of the time. Whatever the life experiences and ideology they had previously personally, it never happens as they become unlikely friends, sharing their most intimate thoughts from sexual awakening to certain pop culture interests.
If you’ve read Brian K. Vaughan’s work from Y: The Last Man to Saga, you know that no matter how sci-fi his storytelling is, the story is very rooted in the relevance of his characters that emerge from candid conversations about animal impulses as humans. While Val is the most familiar of the two leads thanks to her modern voice, Sam has his own journey with the film. For these two, films are distracting from their harsh reality, but since the future eliminates the film, the next big funny thing to watch is to guide the two or so together.
Please don’t make a mistake. This is a very graphic book. It starts with the opening sequence where Val watches adult videos on her phone and becomes horny before being plagued by bullets in an epic bloody way. The content serves as a response to American censorship where young people can see bloody violence, but anything that looks sexual is rising, so artist Nico Henricon struggles to make this as adult-oriented as possible. But even if hand-painted art depicts a dystopian black and white future due to Fritzlang’s debt to the metropolitan city, there is more than just sexuality and violence, as hand-painted art is gorgeous and beautiful. After reading this, you can see why the comic was three years old.
While it’s not just about Val and Sam themselves living and observing, the closest to the ongoing conflict is the terrorist movement, which appears to have grown over decades, attracting the attention of other audiences. The most striking visual for these shooters is that they wear headgear similar to fictional characters we know, like Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man. The book may not specifically name the pop culture icons, but it suggests Vaughn’s own dislike for these corporate IPs after years of working.
For three years, audiences are worth waiting as a multifaceted epic from science fiction to afterlife, and as a study of the most self-destructive and immobilizing humanity.
“Audience” is a multifaceted epic
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For three years, the audience is worth the wait as they are self-destructive and non-unch tians, as they are multifaceted epics that lead to science fiction, afterlife and exams on humanity.
A humorous and honest conversation between the two main characters about life and pop culture.
Amazingly hand-drawn work that takes advantage of the monochrome dystopian environment.
Graphic content that really helps you with the key points and is leaning hard towards sexual and violence.
Some readers are deferred by graphic content.
