{"id":21182,"date":"2019-11-28T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=21182"},"modified":"2019-11-26T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:03:27","slug":"the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2019\/11\/28\/the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Jim Alexander<\/strong>, edited by Kirsten Murray <\/strong>(Planet Jimbot)
\nISBN: 978-1-9164535-2-4 (PB) eISBN: 978-1-9164535-3-1<\/p>\n

Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: A Decidedly Different Spooky Saga for the Season\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apparently tireless raconteur and comics veteran Jim Alexander is back with another prose novel (available in paperback and a variety of eBook formats).<\/p>\n

His pictorial back-catalogue includes Star Trek the Manga<\/strong>, Calhab Justice <\/em>and other strips for 2000AD<\/strong>, licensed properties such as Ben 10<\/strong> and Generator Rex<\/strong> as well as a broad variety of comics and strips for The Dandy<\/strong>, DC, Marvel, Dark Horse Comics, Metal Hurlant Chronicles<\/strong>, and loads of other places including his own publishing empire Planet Jimbot. He’s imminently due back in the mainstream too, with a forthcoming Marvel Graphic Novel in the offing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Everyone dies. That’s biology. How they die isn’t as important as how they lived, right?<\/p>\n

That’s an assumption that is devilishly challenged in The Light<\/strong> as a world so very much our own takes a path less travelled after a global catastrophe in 1998.<\/p>\n

Here and now, twenty years after the event, humanity has gained an eerie new ability: unfailing certainty in the knowledge of when your time is up.<\/p>\n

It’s not a proper super power: decedents only know from the moment they wake up that it’s their Last Day and not everyone is sure – or convinced – until they place a palm on the ubiquitous domestic device (also available on all street corners and in every lamp post) and a purple hue tells them its time\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Socially, things haven’t changed much: Capitalism has devised new ways to monetise the change and the elites and powers-that-be have found fresh ways to restrict the thinking and spending of the masses. Someone has turned Last Day into the world’s most debauched, powerful and unavoidable religion, and on dark fringes of the planet, outsiders try to live beyond the newly-established margins and avoid collaborating with the system that demands that all citizens test their light every day\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

The rest of us? We just comply, testing ourselves every 24 hours and going about our lawful business until it’s that day and we have a decision to make: lie down and die or rebel and act out\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Told through a string of narrative viewpoints from the highest and mightiest to the most excluded and lowly, how The Light <\/strong>works – and how it ultimately fails – is beguilingly exposed in a wry and mordant, satire-saturated tale that delves like a forensic exam into the nature of what it means to be human and truly alive\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

And when this has sufficiently blown your mind, you really should really read the author’s first novel GoodCopBadCop<\/b> and track down the superb comics by Alexander and his confederates Luke Cooper, Gary McLaughlin, Will Pickering, Aaron Murphy, Chris Twydell & Jim Campbell.<\/p>\n

The Jims – Alexander & Campbell – have been providing challenging, captivating and enthralling graphic narratives for ages now and you owe it to yourself to catch them too.
\n\u00c2\u00a9 2019 Jim Alexander.<\/p>\n

Planet Jimbot has a splendid online shop<\/a> so why not check it out? Conversely why not go to:<\/p>\n

UK<\/u><\/strong>
\nAmazon (print<\/a>) (ebook<\/a>)
\nKobo<\/a><\/p>\n

US<\/u><\/strong>
\nAmazon (print<\/a>) (ebook<\/a>)
\nKobo<\/a>
\nBarnes & Noble<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jim Alexander, edited by Kirsten Murray (Planet Jimbot) ISBN: 978-1-9164535-2-4 (PB) eISBN: 978-1-9164535-3-1 Win’s Christmas Gift Recommendation: A Decidedly Different Spooky Saga for the Season\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 9\/10 Apparently tireless raconteur and comics veteran Jim Alexander is back with another prose novel (available in paperback and a variety of eBook formats). His pictorial back-catalogue includes Star … <\/p>\n

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