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“Another Cold Morning” - Transmetropolitan number 8, by Warren Ellis.
In my view the finest single comic I’ve ever read. The story deals with “Cryonic Revivals”; cryogenically frozen people who in the past paid to be stored until cures could be found for whatever it was that killed them. The story focuses on a woman called Mary, who dies in our time (or the near future) of a heart attack. Her husband dies too far away to be stored in the same way.
Once revived by nanotechnology and over the initial shock of finding herself in a strange environment, Mary initially is quite upbeat upon facing the future without her husband. Until she walks out on the street and gets bombarded with a huge dose of culture (future?) shock. She immediately goes catatonic. Recovering later, she wanders the alleyways away from the main streets to filter out some of the noise.
Companies have been offering this service for years, so the main jist of the story is NOT science fiction. Indeed, with so much of Ellis’ work, we’re not really talking about SF at all. We’re talking about the appalling way society treats it’s old and homeless people (merged into one entity here for the purpose of the story). Once Mary is revived, she is given the bare minimum that society can allow itself to get away with, and then ignored to deal with it. All the experience, all the first hand accounts, all the stories they can tell are left to rot. In most ways, it’s an account of our own lives. We are born, we are our own center of the universe, we reach old age, and in most cases are a burden to a society that doesn’t really care.
This is quite the most moving SF story I’ve read. SF when done correctly should reflect common human experiences and themes in a setting removed from our own (Gattaca, Eternal Sunshine, Vanilla Sky, Solaris etc). In this, Ellis delivers in spades. It’s one of the only comics that’s managed to upset me, along with Art Spegilmans Maus
Don’t think comics are for just for kids. Compare The Dandy to From Hell then re-evaluate your opinions. It’s simply another medium for storytelling, and an oft ignored one at that.
Hugely recommended, and don’t get me started on number 6 “God Riding Shotgun”, which is one of the most hilarious tirades against organised religion I’ve ever seen on paper.
In my view the finest single comic I’ve ever read. The story deals with “Cryonic Revivals”; cryogenically frozen people who in the past paid to be stored until cures could be found for whatever it was that killed them. The story focuses on a woman called Mary, who dies in our time (or the near future) of a heart attack. Her husband dies too far away to be stored in the same way.
Once revived by nanotechnology and over the initial shock of finding herself in a strange environment, Mary initially is quite upbeat upon facing the future without her husband. Until she walks out on the street and gets bombarded with a huge dose of culture (future?) shock. She immediately goes catatonic. Recovering later, she wanders the alleyways away from the main streets to filter out some of the noise.
Companies have been offering this service for years, so the main jist of the story is NOT science fiction. Indeed, with so much of Ellis’ work, we’re not really talking about SF at all. We’re talking about the appalling way society treats it’s old and homeless people (merged into one entity here for the purpose of the story). Once Mary is revived, she is given the bare minimum that society can allow itself to get away with, and then ignored to deal with it. All the experience, all the first hand accounts, all the stories they can tell are left to rot. In most ways, it’s an account of our own lives. We are born, we are our own center of the universe, we reach old age, and in most cases are a burden to a society that doesn’t really care.
This is quite the most moving SF story I’ve read. SF when done correctly should reflect common human experiences and themes in a setting removed from our own (Gattaca, Eternal Sunshine, Vanilla Sky, Solaris etc). In this, Ellis delivers in spades. It’s one of the only comics that’s managed to upset me, along with Art Spegilmans Maus
Don’t think comics are for just for kids. Compare The Dandy to From Hell then re-evaluate your opinions. It’s simply another medium for storytelling, and an oft ignored one at that.
Hugely recommended, and don’t get me started on number 6 “God Riding Shotgun”, which is one of the most hilarious tirades against organised religion I’ve ever seen on paper.
I had a look for this the other day but could I find it? Could I ****. That was probably because I managed to forget (a) the name of the comic, and (b) the name of the writer. I'll have another go soon.
“Another Cold Morning” - Transmetropolitan number 8, by Warren Ellis.
In my view the finest single comic I’ve ever read. The story deals with “Cryonic Revivals”; cryogenically frozen people who in the past paid to be stored until cures could be found for whatever it was that killed them. The story focuses on a woman called Mary, who dies in our time (or the near future) of a heart attack. Her husband dies too far away to be stored in the same way.
Once revived by nanotechnology and over the initial shock of finding herself in a strange environment, Mary initially is quite upbeat upon facing the future without her husband. Until she walks out on the street and gets bombarded with a huge dose of culture (future?) shock. She immediately goes catatonic. Recovering later, she wanders the alleyways away from the main streets to filter out some of the noise.
Companies have been offering this service for years, so the main jist of the story is NOT science fiction. Indeed, with so much of Ellis’ work, we’re not really talking about SF at all. We’re talking about the appalling way society treats it’s old and homeless people (merged into one entity here for the purpose of the story). Once Mary is revived, she is given the bare minimum that society can allow itself to get away with, and then ignored to deal with it. All the experience, all the first hand accounts, all the stories they can tell are left to rot. In most ways, it’s an account of our own lives. We are born, we are our own center of the universe, we reach old age, and in most cases are a burden to a society that doesn’t really care.
This is quite the most moving SF story I’ve read. SF when done correctly should reflect common human experiences and themes in a setting removed from our own (Gattaca, Eternal Sunshine, Vanilla Sky, Solaris etc). In this, Ellis delivers in spades. It’s one of the only comics that’s managed to upset me, along with Art Spegilmans Maus
Don’t think comics are for just for kids. Compare The Dandy to From Hell then re-evaluate your opinions. It’s simply another medium for storytelling, and an oft ignored one at that.
Hugely recommended, and don’t get me started on number 6 “God Riding Shotgun”, which is one of the most hilarious tirades against organised religion I’ve ever seen on paper.
In my view the finest single comic I’ve ever read. The story deals with “Cryonic Revivals”; cryogenically frozen people who in the past paid to be stored until cures could be found for whatever it was that killed them. The story focuses on a woman called Mary, who dies in our time (or the near future) of a heart attack. Her husband dies too far away to be stored in the same way.
Once revived by nanotechnology and over the initial shock of finding herself in a strange environment, Mary initially is quite upbeat upon facing the future without her husband. Until she walks out on the street and gets bombarded with a huge dose of culture (future?) shock. She immediately goes catatonic. Recovering later, she wanders the alleyways away from the main streets to filter out some of the noise.
Companies have been offering this service for years, so the main jist of the story is NOT science fiction. Indeed, with so much of Ellis’ work, we’re not really talking about SF at all. We’re talking about the appalling way society treats it’s old and homeless people (merged into one entity here for the purpose of the story). Once Mary is revived, she is given the bare minimum that society can allow itself to get away with, and then ignored to deal with it. All the experience, all the first hand accounts, all the stories they can tell are left to rot. In most ways, it’s an account of our own lives. We are born, we are our own center of the universe, we reach old age, and in most cases are a burden to a society that doesn’t really care.
This is quite the most moving SF story I’ve read. SF when done correctly should reflect common human experiences and themes in a setting removed from our own (Gattaca, Eternal Sunshine, Vanilla Sky, Solaris etc). In this, Ellis delivers in spades. It’s one of the only comics that’s managed to upset me, along with Art Spegilmans Maus
Don’t think comics are for just for kids. Compare The Dandy to From Hell then re-evaluate your opinions. It’s simply another medium for storytelling, and an oft ignored one at that.
Hugely recommended, and don’t get me started on number 6 “God Riding Shotgun”, which is one of the most hilarious tirades against organised religion I’ve ever seen on paper.