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Non-Humans #1-4
Non-Humans Volume 1: Runaway American Dream
Los Angeles, 2041 - it's twenty-six years after a NASA probe brought back a strange disease causing many of our familiar toy-like objects to come to life. This is a new world order where cute and fearsome creatures fight for their right to exist in a world that fears them! It's Blade Runner meets Toy Story in Non-Humans!
120 pages, Paperback
First published March 12, 2013
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October 17, 2014
There are times I'm starved for good science fiction in comics. While this would probably be qualified as dystopian by most, I found some threads of hope in a novel take on the Toy Story idea.
Except here the toys aren't around to protect kids, if anything many of the toys see kids as prey. Brunswick does a good job of building a world where a virus from a Mars expedition has infected everyone on Earth. Pre-teens/teens are able to grant life to their toys, and the toys are not always happy about this. To prevent this from happening there are the police, and the kids are on mandatory drug treatment until adulthood.
All entertainment has been banned, and we meet burned out police detective Oliver Aimes. Aimes is divorced, has a troubled son, and we can say he is assigned to the non-human beat.
Brunswick does a good job of building the world, and a good enough job of characterization. He tries to spring a plot surprise or tow on the reader, but there is too much foreshadowing to quite pull of the surprise. It is obvious both from the forward and the ending that more stories are planed, and hopefully will be published.
Except here the toys aren't around to protect kids, if anything many of the toys see kids as prey. Brunswick does a good job of building a world where a virus from a Mars expedition has infected everyone on Earth. Pre-teens/teens are able to grant life to their toys, and the toys are not always happy about this. To prevent this from happening there are the police, and the kids are on mandatory drug treatment until adulthood.
All entertainment has been banned, and we meet burned out police detective Oliver Aimes. Aimes is divorced, has a troubled son, and we can say he is assigned to the non-human beat.
Brunswick does a good job of building the world, and a good enough job of characterization. He tries to spring a plot surprise or tow on the reader, but there is too much foreshadowing to quite pull of the surprise. It is obvious both from the forward and the ending that more stories are planed, and hopefully will be published.
October 7, 2022
The non-humans is an interesting idea that didn't really go anywhere. The premises was simple, an extra-terrestrial virus given young humans the ability to give life to toys, after a while the toys began to form their own community while the government is suppressing the "non-humans". Enters the protagonist who is a cop trying to stop a toy from taking over the world.
The story was pretty weak, it really should have gone with horror direction but instead it chose a dystopian science fiction tone. The art was not the greatest, and unfortunately the cyberpunk setting didn't work very well either. Quite a disappointment overall.
The story was pretty weak, it really should have gone with horror direction but instead it chose a dystopian science fiction tone. The art was not the greatest, and unfortunately the cyberpunk setting didn't work very well either. Quite a disappointment overall.
December 11, 2016
The ominous title is a bit much as the non-humans are toys that were given life by their usually young owners. This odd and uncontrollable ability was given by a extraterrestrial virus that infected the world. Decades later the conflict has come to a head between the humans and the non-humans under constant government control with the help of mandatory drugs that inhibit imagination. The non-humans consider themselves a community that deserves equal rights with their human counterparts. Though some of them have created an organization whose goal is to rule the human race.
The story itself is too much of a soap opera for my taste. A cop is having trouble with his son who is in love with a (very hot) non-human. The father's monkey toy, given life when the guy was young and angry, wants to rule the world and he needs young humans to animate realistic sex-dolls meant to infiltrate their society like a Trojan Horse. This last part is the weakest plan to take over the world that I ever heard of, but there you go. The creators focused more on the world creation, which is impressive, and the dynamic artwork, but sadly the story fell short.
The story itself is too much of a soap opera for my taste. A cop is having trouble with his son who is in love with a (very hot) non-human. The father's monkey toy, given life when the guy was young and angry, wants to rule the world and he needs young humans to animate realistic sex-dolls meant to infiltrate their society like a Trojan Horse. This last part is the weakest plan to take over the world that I ever heard of, but there you go. The creators focused more on the world creation, which is impressive, and the dynamic artwork, but sadly the story fell short.
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