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Overrun – Life Inside Your Computer
By Joe Glass
Overrun is a new mini-series from Andi Ewington, Matt Woodley and Paul Green. It follows an action-packed adventure involving explosions, gun battles, zombies and a dastardly world-destroying plot…all taking place in a computer tower in an office cubicle.
That's right, the world of Overrun is the world of what is going on inside the magic boxes that we just can't live without anymore. And it turns out it's filled with as much politics, religion, crime and chaos as our own world.
Well, okay, it's a little more…interesting, maybe. I mean, this is also a world where game characters are popular celebrities and entertainers, and where a computer virus and corruption of information can get pretty damn serious looking…oh, and where you can see giant electric rodents, let's not forget that.
In many ways, Overrun is reminiscent of cult classic series Reboot, which followed the adventures of NPCs living in a computer world, which would see large sections changed when a new game was put in. This time it's just the world of the computer, but it plays with the similar idea of anthropomorphic versions of processes and ideas that have become a part of our everyday lives.
From hard-boiled detectives named McAfee and Norton, to a hard as nails British woman wielding twin guns, a lot of neat winks and nudges to the computerised aspect of our lives pervade this book. But they are not annoying or overdone, rather they are fun and natural, and work incredibly well.
What's more, this mini as a whole is a fantastic set-up for a potentially much greater expanded world. Whilst the tale is nice and complete, there are plenty of characters, concepts, and dangling threads left that new stories can be built from, and it's certainly a world that would be fun to return to. And I daresay there are tons of options to spin off out of it too. This Overrun story is not only a fantastic complete story, it's also a rather wonderful set-up with tons of potential.
The artwork by Green is fun, energetic and very stylized, reminiscent of J. Scott Campbell in many ways, but also pleasantly distinct and dextrously used for dealing with characters of different shapes, sizes and backgrounds. He makes a Pokemon-esque cutesy monster fit incredibly well in the same world as hordes of corrupted zombies and a WWII era army hero.
Overall, Overrun is a greatly fun concept and world that is at once new and familiar, and I think can only really present tons of fantastic adventures in the future.
Overrun is available now from the comics own website!
And if print is more you thing, the comics are exclusively available from forbiddenplanet.com in the UK, and Jet Pack Comics in the US!
And as for those print copies, the creators tell us,
UK Limited to only 150 sets only across both versions
Joe Glass is a Bleeding Cool contributor and comic creator. He's the writer and creator of comic series, The Pride, about a team of LGBTQ superheroes, which is available here and on Comixology. He is also the co-writer of Stiffs, a horror comedy set in Wales, that can be found here and on Comixology too.
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