#8 Rubicon by J.S. Dewes

Set in a future where humans are fighting a slowly losing battle against AI that want to upload to our bodies. Sergeant Valero has died time and time again only to be reborn in a cloned body and put back into battle against the Mechan.  Then one day she gets transferred to a new ship and things are different, she isn’t put through a meat grinder of endless death and starts forming a relationship with a doctor on the ship and also working with the man behind the science of her chip that allows for people to be reborn even though he has never been.   With the help of a next gen AI chip that she gets, things really start going her team’s way when they are on missions, but things are not adding up.  I will say the ending had me yell.

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#9 Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death by Mike Mignola

Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death by Mike Mignola, Craig Rousseau (Illustrator), Dave Stewart (Illustrator), Clem Robins (Illustrator), Tom Sniegoski

This second collection is just as fun as the first one.  Hellboy is coming down with a fever while settling into his new home.  In his fevered state Lobster Johnson appears to him and asks for his help on a mission.   Hellboy jumps at the chance to help his hero but while this is happening there is someone planning on murdering the child to prevent the end of the world.  The story is good and has a strong ending. And the details work great so you can see how Hellboy would see how things happen as he is in a fevered delusional state.

 

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