You Get What You Deserve
How To Influence Friends And Confuse People
July 2000 75p
20 pages A5 B&W
Calum and Thena confront Milo while Tara tries to return to the dust from where she came.
A complex plot that moves back and forward in time, sympathetic characters that interact in a realistic and emotionally charged (thanks to the artwork) manner... the sci-fi trappings of this book are often the last things you notice. Real people in unreal situations.
7/10
Or Bad Karma if you prefer. One of the things I was trying to explore in AN is how much your actions define who you are. Jack starts off as your average square-jawed hero type, but we find he killed his girlfriend out of fear, no matter how he tried to justify it to himself. Calum may have shown an admirable sense of loyalty to his fellow clones, but in the end he was still a mass murderer. Milo was a good man who tried to change the system from inside, but he was still guilty by association. What's my point? No one knows that, man.
