Frontiers is an 8 part sci-fi series, with a short prequel #0. There is a growing awareness forming on Earth and in the depths of space that something is coming... Something is coming back.
"Tony McGee is already a shining light in the small press firmament and Frontiers does nothing to tarnish his reputation."
"Science fiction comics don't come much better than this."
Frontiers is a story about time overlapping, the end of the world, prophecy, destructive nanotechnology, dreams vs. reality. and loneliness. What sets it apart from other sci-fi books/comics/films is that its characters are so real, sympathetic. stirringly sad. Partly that's down to Tony's expressive art, partly to the sparse-but-effective scripting, partly to something I can't quite put my finger on. Crazily, I've been reading this book, issue after issue, as individual stories. mainly because the schedule meant I'd forgotten many of the plot points from the previous issue by the time the new one arrived. It's to Tony's credit that the book worked well when read that way. but it works so much better when read as a whole.The closest comparison - and biggest compliment - I can give Frontiers is that it's narrative reminds me of the film Donnie Darko (though Frontiers was conceived long before DD). That same sense of ambiguity, of incredible ideas just beyond the reader's grasp, underpinned by hauntingly real characters that you can't help but care for. It's impossible to express why I liked Frontiers so much. But if this were an Oni / Slave Labor graphic novel rather than 8 photocopied small press pamphlets, it'd be winning every award going. Or. maybe it wouldn't, because the really good stuff so often goes unnoticed.
newsgroup review
After Angel Nebula I had planned to give series and science fiction a rest for a while, so I started coming up with ideas for an anthology of different one off stories, beginning with The Right Girl. However I soon began drifting back to sf, and started thinking of all the different genres in sci-fi, and how you could put a fresh slant on each. Pretty soon I had basic ideas for space adventure, telepath and virtual reality stories. Once I came up with the idea of linking them together with an alien symbol, I had the first two issues, and the rest soon followed. The title is more about the frontiers of the human mind than the depths of space.
