Si Spurrier and Mike Dowling's Minotaur from Ignition Press as a Planetary for the A.I. Age...
Si Spurrier and Mike Dowling's Minotaur channels Planetary for the A.I. age, blending sci-fi horror with futurist ideas. Minotaur feels timely as real-world A.I. fears echo its premise of a leaked superintelligence reshaping reality.
The series follows Gloria Monday, Sara Devangan, and Raf Romero as they chase miracles, monsters, and the truth. Ignition Press is betting big on Minotaur, with strong preorder buzz, an ongoing launch, and a major FOC push.was first announced by Ignition Press, reality has been doing its best to catch up with its high-concept pitch. And I don't just mean the new baddie in Batman. concerns about safety and cybersecurity.
That's the next level large language model, capable of identifying and exploiting"zero-day vulnerabilities" across every major operating system and web browser. Not only that, but during training, the model demonstrated highly concerning behaviour, including briefly escaping from its sandbox containment structure.
Since then, governments, banks, and other major tech firms have been scrambling to work with Anthropic to address those risks.pitched itself as a comic book that examines a darker version of reality where a U.S. government supercomputer triggered the Singularity, artificial intelligence becoming superintelligence, before the fail-safes kicked in and the plug was pulled. But not before some of it got out, and the future was unleashed in the world.
A world where this next-generation technology is indistinguishable from magic, resulting in terrifying beings and inexplicable events around the globe. Sound familiar again?.
In which the U.S. launches a supercomputer, Colossus, with control over the nuclear arsenal, which then deduces the presence of a similar Russian computer, Guardian, and between them start inventing new scientific theories and proofs beyond human understanding, before the humans pull the plug, the computers hack into the electricity systems and launch missiles at their respective countries unless they get full access restored. It all seemed quite fanciful then.
Anthropic has continued to move forward with, who moved on to more boundary-pushing, futurist creator-owned work. Perhaps that's why Minotaur feels like a modern-day Planetary, complete with a trio of motley adventurers at the centre. Could Gloria Monday, the cynical photojournalist, Saran"Sara" Devangan, the no-nonsense ex-military muscle, and Rafael"Raf" Romero, the reformed tech bro bankrolling their secret international muscle, become this generation's Elijah Snow, Jakita Wagner, and The Drummer?at the end of last year.
Of course, it was much easier to put out a monthly futurist comic series a quarter century ago when bleeding edge ideas only advanced over the course of years, not months as they do now. Will Spurrier and Dowling be able to stay ahead of actual reality?their sole offering for May's Comics Giveaway Day, easily making it Spurrier and Dowling's highest ordered creator-owned issue to date.
And not content to just put books in the hands of potential readers, Ignition included a guide to preordering the series in the Cold Open, something that WhatNot and eBay seller And from what I'm hearing, the gambit seems to be paying off with strong customer preorders being reported by retailers. I'm also hearing that Ignition's launch orders keep climbing, resulting in#1, releasing next Wednesday, June 10th, being the company's highest-ordered first issue at Final Order Cutoff.
With Final Order Cutoff just around the corner forCovers by Mike Dowling, Anwita Citriya, Martin Simmonds, Jock Five years ago, a government supercomputer triggered the Singularity: an explosion of technological superintelligence heralding an unimaginable tomorrow. At least, it almost did. Within moments, a failsafe activated. The plug was pulled.
The future was aborted. But something leaked in those first picoseconds, through wire and wave. And now? The future fights back.
Inexplicable events. Miracles and monsters. Harbingers of revolution…or apocalypse? Minotaur is the tale of Gloria Monday, a photojournalist documenting the lives of those, like her, who are haunted, tortured, and transformed by outbreaks of the future; along with the no-nonsense ex-military muscle who watches her six, and the reformed tech bro secretly bankrolling their global mission to expose it all.
From Simon Spurrier and Mike Dowling comes Minotaur, an X-Files for the forward-looking era, with science-fiction ideas ripped from the pages of New Scientist, manifesting among human societies in spooky, unsettling ways. Photojournalist Gloria Monday's mission to investigate outbreaks of the future continues!
An encounter unlocks clues about the"weretiger" terrorizing a local Indian population; and truth-seeking takes a personal turn when Monday's search for answers about the Singularity event uncovers a life-changing revelation. Meanwhile, money man Raf Romero proves he's more than just the bankroller when he shares shreds of his origin story and fresh new intell.
Government agents Koch and Bull's scorched Earth pursuit of the team heats up, and all the new leads in the world won't help Monday crack the case if this cat-and-mouse game continues. Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of comic books The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne and Chase Variant.
Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and Forbidden Planet. Father of two daughters, Amazon associate, political cartoonist.
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