She’s a Generation IX, Aphrodite Tracker-Killer, designed to seduce, infiltrate, and kill and that fact is evident in both script and art. She isn’t an android in this series, but both cyborg and human due to her DNA being genetically modified in utero. Regarding Aphrodite as the main protagonist, Hawkins writes the series’ namesake quite differently than the original character. Issue #3 goes deeper into the reasons why both sides are at each other’s throats, and highlights the animosity each faction feels for each other’s way of life. In the West, cybernetically-enhanced humans live under totalitarian rule in the city of Speros. To the East, in a city called Genesis, genetically enhanced humans live in tribes under a theocratic monarchy.

Two rival factions eventually emerged from the old world after the protocol was initiated, and now occupy the same small strip of land while battling over resources. For new readers, the Aphrodite protocol was designed to create humans that could survive an extinction level event via genetic enhancement and superintelligence, in order to repopulate the Earth. To shed some light on the Sci-Fi/Fantasy, cyberpunk world in which the story takes place, provided on the opening pages of issue #3 is a basic synopsis of the “Aphrodite IX” universe. PUBLISHER: Top Cow Productions / Image Comics Sejic’s illustrations are remarkable, not only for the creativity of the universe he’s bringing to life, but for the professionally detailed quality of work he manages to consistently dish out without fail.īoth writer and artist take the fan-favourite green-haired assassin to a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future, where she’s caught between two warring factions in a hostile, and unrecognizable new world. Hawkins’ writing is incredible for its linguistic precision and attention to scientific detail. As part of the Top Cow Rebirth initiative, Matt Hawkins and Stjepan Sejic join forces to reboot David Wohl and David Finch’s best-selling graphic novel, “Aphrodite IX” and for new and old readers alike, it’s one series worth diving into.

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