Quantum Vibe Volume 2: Murphy

by Scott Bieser, Zeke Bieser (Illustrator)

Overview

Continuing the futuristic, outer-space adventures of young Nicole Oresme and her mad-scientist employer, Dr. Seamus O'Murchadha: Our protagonists visit the planet Mars, which its Sino-Japanese colonists call Huoxing, where Seamus must pay his respects to his late friend Po Xu-ke and deal with Po's nefarious nephews. Along the way they meet the android/slave Ventura, formerly Po's concubine, who has some secrets of her own. Later, our protagonists proceed to the planetoid Vesta, where they become involved in a murder mystery that is linked to a scheme which could result in the deaths of millions and an inter-planetary war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780985316754
Publisher:	Big Head Press
Publication date:	03/03/2014
Series:	Quantum Vibe , #2
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.47(d)

Editorial Reviews

08/01/2014
Originally a web comic, this lively space opera stars three wonderful women characters: Nicole Orasme, a brilliant, tawny-skinned techie; Murphy, an android sex slave; and Buford, a hulking beltape (genetically engineered hominid). Through cleverly written adventures and near disasters, the trio help genius inventor Seamus O'Murchada with his mysterious project despite enemy interference. Creator Bieser (Escape from Terra) gleefully stir-fries countless ingredients into the series, from sf stereotypes to class-based dialects to references evoking history, mythology, and pop culture—Edgar Rice Burroughs's books, M.C. Escher's stairways, Osamu Tezuka, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and U.S. presidents all get tagged. Volume 1 saw Nicole successfully lobbing explosives into the sun. In Volume 2, Murphy shakes off her pacifist programming and helps foil a plot to start an interplanetary war. Bieser's cheerful art, enhanced by brother Zeke's coloring, is semirealistic and often satiric in portraying beings and cultures, from multiarmed "Spyder" humans to a hoop-field gym for low-gravity dwellers. And although characters can change appearance, readers won't lose track of who's who. VERDICT This picaresque series should be especially enjoyable to new adult readers. For older teens and up, owing to sexual content.—M.C.

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