Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future

If you're fond of sci-fi, graphic novels, and the movie Moon, you are going to love this book. Duncan Jones is a powerful storyteller and has a wonderful knack for getting right to the heart of humanity...even when it's been extensively tinkered with by cybernetics. The visuals are stunning and well drawn, and perceptive fans of Moon and Mute as well as David Bowie will take great delight in finding the Easter eggs embedded in the artwork. This is a fantastic book to read in a hammock on a spring afternoon. Do yourself a favor and order this book!

Great story, I finished it in one session, it will keep you glued to it till the end.The artists are really good, it doesn’t break that much the immersion imho.Overall great book with very good quality.

I really enjoy Duncan Jones’ work. I’m usually not much of a comic book reader but I enjoyed the heck out of this story! It would have made an amazing movie— Stunning visuals and wonderful futuristic styling! A wonderful read.

Great story. I read it one sitting. Solid sci-fi escapism.

I Kickstartered this project some time ago and waited what felt like ages - in a COVID landscape, shipping has become a hellish nightmare for everyone involved. You know what? This book was worth every minute of the wait, and probably more.As other reviewers have pointed out, this is from the mind of the same gentleman who created/directed the movies "Moon" and "Mute," making this third in a loose trilogy of sorts (affectionately called the 'Mooniverse'). This was written as a movie and was brought into the comics world with the very exceptional help of one Alex de Campi. The two of these people working together deliver a remarkable story, which is made somehow even more remarkable by the killer lineup of artists they got on this book!The art sort of follows what I imagine would be "scene breaks" in a movie, with a new artist taking over each "scene." Normally I might find so many different art styles a bit distracting, but with the way the "camera" worked, it made the art changes feel like a natural transistion. Maybe I'm thinking too much into it, but I also feel as if the authors made a deliberate decision to put certain artists on certain scenes, with gritty action scenes being done by dark, heavy-lined artists and more transitional or pleasant scenes being done by art that sort of reflected a lighter mood. Further, the colouring in this book is "futuristic," somehow, with lots of bright and neons, sometimes cutting through the dark, which reminded me a bit of the visual aesthetic Mr. Jones had going on in "Mute."Anyhow, the story is great - I can see how it would've made an action-packed movie, but with a comic book there's no budget - the limit is the artists' talent, and what talent it was! There's also over-reaching themes of family and belonging - a real "heart" to the book (not to sound trite). Don't forget a really healthy dose of sci-fi just to remind you that you're in the future and add that extra bit of awesome. I loved "Moon" and "Mute" both, for different reasons, and just as those two are loved, so is "Madi" for being something completely different and yet noticeably the same. Recommend.

The quality of the printing is excellent, but the contents don’t measure up. The inking is handled by a dozen artists of uneven talent, so some portions look phenomenal, others very much lacking. Worse yet, the differences in character interpretation by said artists leads to a very fractured sense of character. For instance: is Ted brave or craven, selfless or selfish? Such ambiguity can be a merit, but not when it arises from inconsistency in the rendering. The story itself, while containing some world-building innovations of interest, treads the same old paths with only shallow nods to the costs to its protagonists. And then there’s the central conceit - no spoiler, as it is shared in the opening scene - why would *anyone* willingly agree to surrender their entire agency to an untrusted operator? No amount of money would be worth it to me, that’s for sure. “Hey, it’s okay if you turn me into a sociopath or get me killed. As long as I get paid!” If this were a proper satire, the message of corporate greed and rampant consumerism would find countless opportunities to lampoon, but this is nothing so nuanced as that. Hard pass.

Everything about this book is exceptional. It’s the 3rd in a series from Duncan Jones Moon film. The story is very engaging and the art work just makes it so much of a fun ride. I really liked the colors used for this. The paper quality is perfect so it’s not awkward when reading. Earns every 5 stars!

260 pages of incoherency. Not even suspenseful. Not even a thriller.The only thing decent about it was the paper and the binding.Charity collection box...maybe someone at Goodwill will pay a nickel for it.

I love the comics. Unfortunately I can’t tell about the parcel. The book was delivered damaged.

I disliked the fact that it’s damaged.

... peccato non esista la traduzione in italiano. L'ho comprato per mio figlio - che parla e legge correntemente l'inglese - ma io non potrò leggerlo, perché non conosco la lingua. Un vero peccato, so che la storia è bella e interessante ...