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Harrison, Steven C. – Fabricari #2
Fabricari #2
Am I allowed to still be unsure about a series after two issues� Well, I am. This one had definite improvements over the last issue, that’s for sure, but this still may very well be one of those things that just isn’t for me. Maybe for you, what do I know? Anyway, this one has Myron fully on the run and deciding to join up with the Luddites, a group that is against all these flying robots going around killing people. He may have gotten to them too late though, as they confronted the government en masse and those kinds of things rarely end well, especially when it’s a bunch of guys with swords and spears taking on flying killing machines. What I do like about this one is that the back story gets fleshed out quite a bit here, going into more detail about the dynamic between the Queen and the Prime Minister. There’s also a few of the fight scenes in here, as I suppose you need at least a couple in a series like this. This could still be something great, at least in terms of science fiction stories, but I’m still not convinced. There’s one more issue laying around here, and when I get to that one I promise to decide one way or another on this series, but there’s always that website you could be checking out to figure this all out without my wishy-washy help. $2.50
Harrison, Steven C. – Fabricari #1
Fabricari #1
If you like your stories about rampaging cyborgs to be satirical in some way, it’s best to move on.This is a straight up action story, with a team of four cyborgs trying to rob a bank and getting attacked by the champion cyborg of the city. Mayhem ensues, although not for as long as you might think. In the meantime, Myron Makere, the man who made all these cyborgs, has fallen out of favor with his ruler, Queen Cassandra, who seems to hate pants. She wants him dead, but Myron does have a few tricks up his sleeve. This is obviously just setting things up for future issues and stories, of which there have been plenty that I haven’t gotten to yet. This one is all the way from 1998, and I have the next couple of issues coming. After that it apparently became a webcomic after a hiatus, so if you do like this story there’s plenty more to come. As for me, color me undecided so far. It was a fun story, it looked great and it was missing those obvious grammar and spelling errors that come with first issues. I’m intrigued to see more, but afraid that it could quickly devolve into a series of slugfests. Either way, more to come in future weeks that will decide that for me. I don’t see an easy way to get these on the website, but it does say to just e-mail the man and ask if you’re interested. $2.50
Harrison, Steven C. – Fabricari #3
Fabricari #3
This time around, in trying to figure this book out, I decided to spend some time at the Fabricari website. It turns out that Steven is pretty much sick of the whole cyborg idea (this comic did come out in 1999, after all) and is hoping to work on different things in the future. Huzzah for him, because this comic doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. This is the dullest issue yet, as there’s just not much going on. The cyborgs from the first issue get pieced back together, Myron continues to try to avoid getting killed (and ends up fighting with his friends much more than his enemies), and the side story with the Queen and the Prime Minister has already become tedious. It’s an OK story as a whole that might have gone somewhere with years of work, but it looks like he’s already burned out on the concept. Which is fine by me, as the man has some serious skill as an artist and I would love to see him tackle different ideas. There’s still enough here for people who love fighting robots to be interested in (and something that looks suspiciously like a graphic novel of this material at his website), otherwise I’d recommend waiting to see what else he has up his sleeve. $2.50
