Title: The Comicverse: Free Comic Book DayDate: 2011
Publisher: Awakening Comics
By: Bianca Alu-Marr, Steve Peters
Minicomic freebie promoting the Comicverse webcomic.
The setting is a comic book store located aboard a space station with convenient access to three wormholes. Shopkeeper Rei runs the place along with a dragon named Ying and a surly AI that operated their comic-replicating machine. The machine can access produce the perfect comic to suit the needs of any customer as long as it can get over its own bad attitude.
Fortunately, space pilot Aki knows how to sweet-talk the machine into getting an issue of Tank Girl. She's new to comics, but Rei and Ying are both hoping she'll stick around.
Good start to this humorous geeky romance. The setting (particularly the shop's ability to access any comic ever published) allows the writers to mix space opera with humor based on current geeky topics fairly smoothly. The characters are all likable, especially Aki, who steals the show as the non-fan who's willing to give comics a try.
Backup story covers Free Comic Book Day aboard the station and name-drops a bunch of the FCBD 2011 offerings.
This was an effective promotional piece for the webcomic and was entertaining on its own.
Rating: 7.5/10
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