Singularity 7
Graphic Novel Summary: by Ben Templesmith With the Earth laid waste by an assault from microscopic nanites, humanity hides in underground cities. But those cities are being destroyed by the 'Gosiodo' - machine beings engineered to convert the remnants of humanity to the will of the nanites. It's up to seven men and women, seemingly immune to the nanotechnology, to fight back… before there's nothing left to fight for. A stunning new series written and drawn by Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night)!
Codes: NOV042756 MAR083831 AUG084194 FEB094376 1932382532 1932382532
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| Artist: | Ben Templesmith |
| Author: | Ben Templesmith |
| Cover Artist: | Ben Templesmith | In Stock? | Not currently available |
| Genre: | Horror |
| ISBN: | 1932382532 |
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Customer Reviews
I finally got around to reading Ben Templesmith’s “Singularity 7”, albeit in TPB format.
The story is pretty decent. It’s sci-fi horror. Nanobots decimate Earth. Some folks survive. Barely. Regardless, the outlook’s grim for them and the luckier few who “evolve” as nanobot-enhanced badassen. Earth’s remaining humans are being systematically hunted by evil cleanup crews and it’s time to go on offense, or die. Or both. Sword-swinging and automatic weapon-wielding with that aforementioned sci-fi horror twist ensues.
Dialogue is gung-ho, out-of-place, and totally quip-a-rific. Lines like: “I am a bomb. I have to explode now.” Scary. Serene. Matter of fact. Lazy, but fun.
Ben Templesmith’s art is Templesmith, no doubt. And that’s simply how it has to be described. Templesmith has his own category. His own rating. His own level. It so surpasses Sienkiewicz it’s not funny. No, really. And Sienkiewicz is stellar. This 30-something kid with crazy lines via Wacom digital tablet, plus sick washes, kicks MAJOR ass. There are very few people who violate the comic book medium with impunity like this; disposing of proper notions with glee, that somehow results in your fervent gratitude for being allowed to witness “the new”. Paul Pope quickly comes to mind. Fuck yeah. Ben Templesmith is one of those people, too.
In the midst of slinging sloppy fight-scene mechanics that I become strangely infatuated with, he pauses to scribble above our posing heroes: “[ standard group shot ]”
This thing reads FAST. Like, done-in-an-hour kinda fast. Longer if you linger on the art, which I did on the second and third readings. Yeah. You’ll do that, too.
1 pts.