Brilliant Trash Vol. 1

Brilliant Trash #1-6

by Tim Seeley, Mike Marts (Editor), Priscilla Petraites (Artist)

In the days to come, a super powered teenage girl wipes the heavily disputed Old City of Jerusalem from the face of the globe. Now, in American dystopia after the “Lady Last Word Incident”, a click-bait headline writing “journalist” holds the key to a med-tech conspiracy that could turn people into gods for the price of days off their lives. But in a world where news is tailored to every viewpoint, will anyone believer her?

A sci-fi superhuman epic from Tim Seeley, the writer of Revival and Grayson, and breakout art sensation Priscilla Petraites!

Genres: Science Fiction, Comics

120 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 2018

About the author

Tim Seeley is a comic book artist and writer known for his work on books such as G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, The Dark Elf Trilogy, Batman Eternal and Grayson. He is also the co-creator of the Image Comics titles Hack/Slash[1] and Revival, as well as the Dark Horse titles, ExSanguine and Sundowners. He lives in Chicago.

Reviews

[Michael J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm rating this 3.5 Stars but the Goodreads website only allows for whole numbers. It's better than average but not enough to give a 4 Star (exceeds expectations) rating.
It takes a few issues for the complexity of the story to be understood, and when it does finally begin to make more sense - - things change in radical ways.
Seeley creates interesting and sympathetic characters and then burdens them with world-altering decisions and moral choices. Petraites' art style is very fluid and easy to follow, and shows good use of the panel format some imaginative action scenes.
As science expands the horizons of what is possible in the near future, what is the role of the corporations who funded the experiments and eventual development of new world-changing technology. The scientist who invented the breakthrough wants to share it with the world, while the corporate head wants to imprison the developer and parcel the improvements out to the highest bidders. News is leaked to two reporters, one part of a news agency and the other a freelance "click-bait" website expert.
I don't want to spoil the story, so I'll keep the breakthrough in mystery for readers to discover. Of course the tech is not foolproof. There is a price to pay for utilizing it and time is short. Brilliant Trash deals with the increasing role of social media in spreading truth, what gets shared and what gets coveted, what should be shared and what is best kept secured, and what might happen if a beneficial but ultimately hazardous enhancement was shared with everyone.

[V · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh.