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juushikaTitle: Last Days of an Immortal
Author: Fabien Vehlmann
Illustrator: Gwénaël de Bonneval
Translator: Edward Gauvin
Published: Boom Entertainment, 2012 (2010)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 150
Total Page Count: 525,420
Text Number: 1921
Read Because: personal enjoyment, hardback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: In a distant, intergalactic culture, a member of the police-equivalent solves interpersonal and intercultural disputes across space while juggling his relationship with his instanced self and the degradation it causes in his immortal memory. Very cerebral, and made moreso by the understated art, which creates an emotional distance from what's often an emotional text. I'm not a big fan of that approach, and Scott-Clary's Post-Self series does such a good job, and a much more thorny and emotional and nuanced job, with highly speculative instanced identities meeting casefic that I can't help but making the (admittedly niche) comparison to find that this falls short. I still like what it's trying to do, and it's an interesting, quick read, surprisingly dense narrative in a deceptively sparse style.
Author: Fabien Vehlmann
Illustrator: Gwénaël de Bonneval
Translator: Edward Gauvin
Published: Boom Entertainment, 2012 (2010)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 150
Total Page Count: 525,420
Text Number: 1921
Read Because: personal enjoyment, hardback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: In a distant, intergalactic culture, a member of the police-equivalent solves interpersonal and intercultural disputes across space while juggling his relationship with his instanced self and the degradation it causes in his immortal memory. Very cerebral, and made moreso by the understated art, which creates an emotional distance from what's often an emotional text. I'm not a big fan of that approach, and Scott-Clary's Post-Self series does such a good job, and a much more thorny and emotional and nuanced job, with highly speculative instanced identities meeting casefic that I can't help but making the (admittedly niche) comparison to find that this falls short. I still like what it's trying to do, and it's an interesting, quick read, surprisingly dense narrative in a deceptively sparse style.
