Paperback
Author: Clarke
Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 72 colour pages
Publication: July 2022
£10.99 incl VAT
ISBN: 9781800440555
In the near future, Earth is falling to a catastrophic alien invasion: giant beetle-like creatures emerge without warning from spatio-temporal rifts, wipe out resistant in a certain zone, then seal it behind a completely impenetrable barrier. Entire sections of the planet have already been lost forever. With conventional weaponry powerless, the USA authorise a program that will turn five teenagers into pure geniuses. Will the test subjects find a defence, though … or will they become out of control themselves?
Paperback
Author: Clarke
Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Number of pages: 48 colour pages
Publication: July 2022
£7.99 incl VAT
ISBN: 9781800440562
https://www.cinebook.co.uk/akkad-c-143_361_457.html
Professor Kessler’s experiment continues, but the powers of his test subjects are growing at a phenomenal rate. He calls upon Sofi, herself a guinea pig for him once, and who loathes him, to oversee the teenagers … and track them down when they inevitably escape. But are his calculations as good as he thinks? Is it not already too late to hope to control the five geniuses – or even to stop the invasion, as the number of enemy incursions suddenly skyrockets?
It is very obvious from the outset that this was set up/written like a movie or TV show. There are different approaches to, say, a TV script than a comics script and you can see how the TV/movie scenario is used -becoming more common as TV shows influence comic writers or those hoping to get that TV or movie deal.
This series (there are only two volumes) works well and what I thought was odd writing actually makes sense at the "end" of the story. My initial thought was "alien invaders and volunteers needed to fight them -Strike force Morituri!" (a Marvel comic series from the 1980s. But then I thought of various other stories (as you get older all this clutter fills your brain) but the story kept me reading.
The end was a nice twice which, not necessarily original, the writer had kept the twist until the end so it worked well and I actually smiled (because it was well done).
When I glanced through the books on receiving them I thought "ugh!" which is why I never review from first look/read. In fact the artwork worked well with its sub-Manga style but enough to distinguish it from general Manga. In fact the art kept the story rolling so well and is probably why the twist at the end worked so well.
It's -2 degrees outside and not that far above freezing indoors so I am not in the best sit-here-and-review moods but at 0200hrsa I was reading these snuggled up in a duvet.... Yeah. Anyway, this is a good two volume read and one that I would recommend, especially if you are into sci fi or time travel-alien invasion stories.
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