It's Wednesday, which means the new funnybooks are out. I'm using The Beguiling as my interim comix shop while working on the next novel in Toronto, and tonight, they had a very nice surprise for me: a perfect bound omnibus edition of two of Warren Ellis's short-series stories: Mek and Reload.
Reload's a great action story, a lot of fun, but it's Mek that's the real standout here. Mek is like Asimov's Robots stories told by Hunter S Thompson after overdosing on Ralph Ellison: a caustic and corrosive story about body-modders who get the machinery the fetishize implanted in their flesh, and the discrimination they face as a result. (Also noteworthy: this is, as far as I know, the only comic to mention the EFF in dialogue).