Alex + Ada #1 Review
Something that never ceases to amaze me is just how adaptable a storytelling medium the humble comic book can be. In the same amount of page space you can create an epic spy thriller, explosive super hero romp, a high fantasy adventure or even a simple retelling of day to day life. Alex + Ada #1, by Jonathan Luna (artist and writer) and Sarah Vaughn (writer), is a delightful example of the latter and is as deserving of space in your pull-list as any high-octane mainstream comic. Admittedly, taken at face value Alex + Ada #1 is a sci-fi story and a cliché one at that. The futuristic setting of the book is one filled with helper robots that busily hover around to assist humans with day to day tasks, so it's definitely not like we haven't seen it before. Even the key premise of the book, the story of a you man dating a robot, is well trodden ground.