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IAN #3
Blitzkrieg
Intelligent Artificial Neuromechanoid... Ian. It’s the name of the newest recruit in Team 21 of the SRS – the ‘Special Rescue Section’. Ian is an android, impossible to tell from a human being with the naked eye, and his creators claim that he’s controlled by a true artificial intelligence – capable of learning, adapting, and even of experiencing emotions. Not every member of the team is happy about their new partner, but their higher-ups aren’t giving them a choice – and the mission comes first...
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48 pages, Paperback
First published September 28, 2010
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Fabien Vehlmann
148 books179 followersUsually uses the pseudonym Vehlmann
Fabien Vehlmann est comme son héros : pétillant, engagé et plein d'humour.
Après avoir patiemment suivi les cours d'une école de commerce nantaise, Fabien Vehlmann réalise que sa voie est ailleurs. Bien décidé à se lancer dans la bande dessinée, il se consacre à l'écriture de manière intensive durant une année entière. Il empile les projets et inonde scrupuleusement la rédaction du journal Spirou. Sa ténacité est récompensée : il y fait ses débuts dans le courant de l'année 1998. Dans les pages du beau journal, il apprend son métier en scénarisant des animations, puis ses premières séries dont le fameux "Green Manor" avec Denis Bodart.
Curieux et enthousiaste, Vehlmann touche à tous les genres : humour, science-fiction, aventure, conte,... Il multiplie les collaborations avec des dessinateurs aux styles aussi divers que Matthieu Bonhomme ("Le Marquis d'Anaon"), Frantz Duchazeau ("Les Cinq conteurs de Bagdad") ou Bruno Gazzotti ("Seuls"). En 2006, il réalise une première aventure de Spirou et Fantasio avec Yoann : "Les Géants Pétrifiés". Quatre ans plus tard, les deux compères reprennent en main la destinée du plus célèbre héros des Editions Dupuis...
Les albums de Spirou qu'il emmènerait sur une île déserte : Le Nid des Marsupilamis, Le Voyageur du Mésozoïque et Virus.
Source: http://www.dupuis.com/catalogue/FR/au...
Fabien Vehlmann est comme son héros : pétillant, engagé et plein d'humour.
Après avoir patiemment suivi les cours d'une école de commerce nantaise, Fabien Vehlmann réalise que sa voie est ailleurs. Bien décidé à se lancer dans la bande dessinée, il se consacre à l'écriture de manière intensive durant une année entière. Il empile les projets et inonde scrupuleusement la rédaction du journal Spirou. Sa ténacité est récompensée : il y fait ses débuts dans le courant de l'année 1998. Dans les pages du beau journal, il apprend son métier en scénarisant des animations, puis ses premières séries dont le fameux "Green Manor" avec Denis Bodart.
Curieux et enthousiaste, Vehlmann touche à tous les genres : humour, science-fiction, aventure, conte,... Il multiplie les collaborations avec des dessinateurs aux styles aussi divers que Matthieu Bonhomme ("Le Marquis d'Anaon"), Frantz Duchazeau ("Les Cinq conteurs de Bagdad") ou Bruno Gazzotti ("Seuls"). En 2006, il réalise une première aventure de Spirou et Fantasio avec Yoann : "Les Géants Pétrifiés". Quatre ans plus tard, les deux compères reprennent en main la destinée du plus célèbre héros des Editions Dupuis...
Les albums de Spirou qu'il emmènerait sur une île déserte : Le Nid des Marsupilamis, Le Voyageur du Mésozoïque et Virus.
Source: http://www.dupuis.com/catalogue/FR/au...
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May 3, 2020
Starting off like a grittier version of International Rescue, my initial expectation was that we were on for a series of hi-octane rescue adventures in improbable places. But IAN’s not been like that at all. Instead it’s a deeper exploration into ‘self’, with questions of who we are and how we fit into the world. Or, as with IAN’s case, being unable to find that fit. Just where does that leave you in the great scheme of things?
IAN’s inner crisis is further complicated by his actions in LA during the rioting. He’s responsible for a massacre. He’s questioning his own sanity. And he feels very much alone. The obvious answer, as he sees it, is to remove himself from the equation, but when you’re an android even that proves to be a difficult endeavour. Ending in failure, IAN finds himself amongst new people, unaware of his robotic origins and all of them disgruntled by the rise of robotic workers.
Meanwhile the rest of the team is at the Pentagon where they meet an unusually young general hellbent on taking down IAN. Before long IAN is on the run, battling against an enhanced human and fighting to understand the entity that haunts his mind.
The creators are setting up an interesting juxtaposition. A robot that, to all external eyes, appears human and is the embodiment of compassion and thoughtfulness. And an enhanced human that expresses all the ruthlessness and single-mindedness of a cold machine. It’s an exploration into intelligence, empathy and survival. What is it about those things that make us human? Does displaying and acting upon human values and fears constitute being alive?
With each new book this series has grown on me. Had Meyer and Vehlmann opted to portray IAN more like something from Terminator, possessed of a single-minded determination or as an unrelenting bad-ass then I think this would have failed. Fortunately, they chose otherwise, and the result remains compelling and mysterious.
IAN’s inner crisis is further complicated by his actions in LA during the rioting. He’s responsible for a massacre. He’s questioning his own sanity. And he feels very much alone. The obvious answer, as he sees it, is to remove himself from the equation, but when you’re an android even that proves to be a difficult endeavour. Ending in failure, IAN finds himself amongst new people, unaware of his robotic origins and all of them disgruntled by the rise of robotic workers.
Meanwhile the rest of the team is at the Pentagon where they meet an unusually young general hellbent on taking down IAN. Before long IAN is on the run, battling against an enhanced human and fighting to understand the entity that haunts his mind.
The creators are setting up an interesting juxtaposition. A robot that, to all external eyes, appears human and is the embodiment of compassion and thoughtfulness. And an enhanced human that expresses all the ruthlessness and single-mindedness of a cold machine. It’s an exploration into intelligence, empathy and survival. What is it about those things that make us human? Does displaying and acting upon human values and fears constitute being alive?
With each new book this series has grown on me. Had Meyer and Vehlmann opted to portray IAN more like something from Terminator, possessed of a single-minded determination or as an unrelenting bad-ass then I think this would have failed. Fortunately, they chose otherwise, and the result remains compelling and mysterious.
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