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I really enjoyed UXB. Its a great story with a wickedly dark sense of humour. The artwork is fantastic, and worth looking at for that alone.
I'm sure that the people who like this graphic novel will use words like edgy, dark and gritty to describe it. Well, I didn't like this story, and I'm going to use words like nasty, misogynistic, homophobic and (whatever word you use to describe someone who hates disabled people).The story revolves around three teenage boys who are sealed in an underground bunker by their ultra-wealthy and paranoid father while the world is being destroyed above their heads. He uses his extreme wealth to develop...
Enjoyed reading this book.
Colin Lorimer continues to create original stories with his book, UXB. In it post-apocalyptic survivors live in a decimated world, aided with specially crafted suits that grant them extraordinary abilities. Be warned, this is not a group of people that are super heroes out to do good. This is not that kind of story. Think more along the lines of self-interested teenagers given power and you will be closer to the mark. I should also note, there are twists a plenty in this story, right down to the...
UXB's story is a very UK thing - dark, crass, sometimes juvenile, infused with a punk aesthetic, exposition heavy in its last chapter. Does it all work, does it coalesce? No, it does not. But the art is quite brilliant.
Graphic and gory. Like unnecessarily so.
