Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future

Paperback, 260 pages

English language

Published Nov. 24, 2020 by Z2 Comics.

ISBN:
978-1-940878-45-4
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Madi Preston, a veteran of Britain’s elite special operations J-Squad unit, is burnt out and up to her eyeballs in debt. She and the rest of her team have retired from the military but are now trapped having to pay to service and maintain the technology put into them during their years of service. They're working for British conglomerate Liberty Inc as mercenaries, selling their unique ability to be remote controlled by specialists while in the field, and the debts are only growing as they get injured completing missions. We meet Madi as she decides she’s had enough. She will take an off-the-books job that should earn her enough to pay out her and her sister, but when the piece of tech she’s supposed to steal turns out to be a kid, and she suddenly blacks out... she finds herself on the run from everyone she’s ever known.

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Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future

Definitely a fun read. Classic cyberpunk setting that just exists in the background without taking up too much attention.

My only real complaint is that the art style changes a bit too drastically a bit too often, to the point where it can be hard to track which character is doing what between pages.

The overall arc is has been done before but there are some fun twists that completely make sense in the setting but that I haven't seen to often.