Collects ALEX + ADA #1-5.
Review: Alex + Ada is a comic series I've seen around, but I am just now picking it up. Honestly, if you like the movie I, Robot, then this might be a good series for you. The worlds are very similar. In Alex + Ada, a company that made androids suffered through a massacre when some androids became sentient. This caused the government to make a law that no robots were allowed to be sentient. This is the world Alex lives in. He is recovering from a recent breakup and, as a birthday present, he is gifted with an android, Ada. He quickly realizes that something is missing from her. A personality. Choices. Her true being. He takes it upon himself to find people to hack Ada's hardware to make her sentient. The art in this series is beautiful. I love the way the characters are portrayed. There are little things about the world that I found interesting. Alex has a chip(?) of some kind in his head which allows him to control everything without speaking. He can lock/unlock his car, make phone calls, search the internet, etc without saying a word. I'm hoping they explore more of that in one of the later volumes. This is very much an introductory comic bind up. We get introduced to a handful of characters, and we explore a little of the world. Alex has a fun group of friends. I hope we get more interactions with them. One of them lost a leg and has a prosthetic. He was also saved by an android, so that is something that might be explored. The start of this series talks a bit about humanity and what makes a human.
Great start to a series. Definitely hoping for certain discussions in later volumes.
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