The new comic releases of the week
He-Man in the multiverse, an Italian writer in Russia, zombies in India and artificial intelligence in Tokyo. And Alice? In Wonderland, of course
A horde of zombies in India. A writer in Russia during the Second World War. An artificial intelligence in Tokyo, astride a turbomoto. A cartoon hero in the multiverse. Alice in Wonderland (and where else?). They are the protagonists and places of the best comics released this week in bookstores, comics shops and online stores.1. Rigoni Stern, by Camilla Trainini, Chiara Raimondi
In 1942, a young Mario Rigoni Stern fights on the front with Russia. Between ice and guns, he survives the battle on the Don and goes into the wastelands beyond the river, up to villages whose name no one remembers today. Beside him, friends and comrades in arms fall under the bullets, in a massacre that populates Rigoni's future diaries with names and ghosts. Decades later, the writer returns to those places, with the permission of the Soviet bureaucracy, to reconstruct not so much history with a capital S, but his own personal history and that of the many young people who died in the war so far from home. A comic biography made on the occasion of the centenary of Rigoni Stern's birth and dedicated to a crucial period for his life and for his future career as a writer, especially for the realization of his most famous work, Il sergeant in the snow (BeccoGiallo editions , 144 pp, 18 euros).2. Alice in Wonderland, by Jun Abe
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the famous Disney animated feature film, Alice returns with a manga that follows the events of Tim Burton's film 2010. The curious little girl who one day ventured into a White Rabbit's lair has grown up. She is 19 and remembers nothing of Wonderland except in her dreams of her. The only oddities she has to deal with now are the incomprehensible decisions of adults. Now that her father is dead, everyone expects her to marry a young English lord and start a family. But just during the party where her engagement should be announced, Alice reunites with an old friend: the White Rabbit, who takes her back to a world of fantastic adventures. Wonderland is ravaged by the Ciciarampa, a bloodthirsty dragon-like monster under the control of the Queen of Hearts. It will be Alice's destiny to defeat the creature and finally free the fantastic lands from the yoke of the mad sovereign with the mania of beheadings. The first volume of two is available (Panini Comics, 192 pp, € 9.90 each, the second will be released on August 19th) or, immediately, the box set "coffer" with the complete work (€ 25).3. Voraci, by Christophe Bec, Stefano Landini
Near future, 2025. India is invaded by a horde of zombies, undead without any instinct or reasoning other than the urge to devour the living. Members of the New Delhi government have been forced to take refuge in an underground bunker, where they are stranded with no hope of escape. It will be up to a humanitarian convoy, escorted by a handful of soldiers, to make their way through 1,300 kilometers of desert with a single safe oasis in the middle, to reach the zombie-infested megacity and rescue the few survivors. A self-contained story of post-apocalyptic horror on the road, set in an unprecedented Indian scenario with a leap into the near future. Between shootings, bloodshed and deaths of granguignolesche, a zombie apocalypse illustrated in black and white by an Italian author, with a script that learns more than a lesson from the modern classics of the genre such as The Walking Dead and World War Z (Saldapress, 128 pp, 19.90 euros).4. Vecta, by Luca Tieri
In the not too distant future, in Tokyo, the programmer Telemaco and the ghostwriter Irina are working on an intelligence artificial on behalf of the Japanese army. The result is Vecta, a fascinating "virtual girl" who would be able to pass the Touring test (that is, the ability to have a conversation with a human being without betraying her robotic nature). Vecta is not perfect, however: a bug afflicts her that has devastating effects on her virtual personality. The story comes to a head when Vecta's data is kidnapped by a mysterious gang. In a saraband of adventures between turbo motorbikes, clandestine races, bikegirls, and the criminal undergrowth of a futuristic Tokyo, Telemaco and Irina embark on an adventure between science fiction, cyberpunk and tributes to modern anime and the masterpieces of Japanese comics of the 80s it's 90s. Luca Tieri, an Italian author who moved to Tokyo, takes the culture and stylistic features of manga his own and reinterprets them in an adventurous and dynamic work (CoconinoPress, 208 pp, 22 euros).5. He -Man and the Masters of the multiverse, by Tom Derenick, Tim Seleey, Dan Fraga
Revival time for the heroes of the 80s. He-Man is in fact back on Netflix with a new animated series, which uses all the power of nostalgia to bring us a revised and corrected version of the adventures of Grayskull and the prince of Eternia. What better time to rediscover the masters of the universe than to immerse yourself in binge watching and binge reading of the inevitable comic sagas that will accompany the new cartoon? Starting with this extravagant crossover that calls into question all possible versions of He-Man, from those of American comics to those of the original animated series, passing through super-deformed toons and toys, in an adventure to save the multiverse. This time, the villain is none other than He-Man himself. Or rather, an alternate version of him from a parallel universe in which Grayskull becomes Hellskull's castle and Prince Keldor, aka the infamous Skeletor, is the hero of the situation. Variants of He-Man from every dimension (and every intellectual property franchise) will have to unite to defeat their evil counterpart, before he usurps the power of infinite universes by becoming a true Master of the Multiverse. A divertissement perhaps a bit clumsy, but that will not fail to snatch a few smiles from longtime fans of the cartoon (Panini Comics, 144 pp, 14 euros).Comics - 1 minute ago
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