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| COVER A BY CHRISTIAN WARD |
Is this the real life? Or, as Freddie Mercury mused, "Is this just fantasy?" If you haven't read the previous issues, don't worry! Benjamin #3 starts off with the revived science fiction writer recounting what he learned since he awakened. Ben H Winters makes it easy to dive in an follow this story. As I read, I felt drawn to Marcus's plight. He reminded me a lot of Dr James Wilson on House. Like Gregory House, Marcus gets pulled into Benjamin's orbit, and talked into doing things he would never contemplate otherwise.
Leomac's detailed art and Luca Bertelè's vibrant coloring keep you turning the pages. There's a trippy psychedelic quality that seems to enhance Benjamin's assertions. Becca Carey contributes easy-to-read uppercase lettering in white dialogue balloons that grow bold and swell when Benjamin starts to go too far, and the sound effects enhance the charming whimsy of this story.
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WRITTEN BY BEN H. WINTERS
ART BY LEOMACS
COVER A BY CHRISTIAN WARD
COVER B BY MALACHI WARD
FULL ART VARIANT (1:10) BY CHRISTIAN WARD
“I’m
saying all of that was never real in the first place. It is not that
you will cease to exist, Marcus, it is that you never really existed in
the first place. That life was always an illusion. Your dreams were
always temporary. Your memories were always an invention. But you know,
let’s be honest, that’s how it is for most people, when you get right
down to it. You think you have this future. You think you have this
past. But everything is always going away. Everything is always in the
process of coming to nothing. But what I’m telling you, Marcus, is that I
am different. For some cosmic reasons impossible to understand, I
matter. I have a chance to save the universe . . . and you have a chance
to save me. That is more—so much more—than most people ever get.”
—Benjamin J. Carp, novelist (Deceased. Robot? Ghost? Alien?)
From Philip K. Award–winning writer Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe) and extraordinary artist Leomacs (Basketful of Heads),
the prestige-format examination of a dead science-fiction icon’s
unexpected return to Earth concludes with a mind-bending meditation of
existence itself.
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Here are two more cover options:
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| COVER B BY MALACHI WARD |
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| FULL ART VARIANT (1:10) BY CHRISTIAN WARD |
Thanks to Oni Press for sharing this cover preview with us.
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