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Lady Mechanika Volume 1: Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse

di Joe Benitez

Serie: Lady Mechanika (Lady Mechanika #0-5)

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A newly remastered edition of the steampunk adventure series' first volume, featuring a revised script and updated lettering. In a Victorian world filled with flying dirigibles and clockwork automatons, a young woman searches desperately for the secrets to her past-a past that left her with extraordinary, but unnatural, mechanical limbs.… (altro)
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De titel zegt het al helemaal. Deze steampunk strip gaat over een vrouw met gedeeltelijk mechanische lichaamsdelen. De rode draad is dan ook dat zij op zoek is naar haar eigen oorsprong.

De sfeer van de strip is donker, gewelddadig, horrorachtig en Victoriaans.
In het begin wist ik nog niet wat van Lady Mechanika te denken maar gaandeweg begon ik meer sympathie voor haar te krijgen. Onder de harde buitenkant zit een warm kloppend hart.

De overige personages zijn allemaal interessant en wil ik meer van weten. Het mysterie geldt dus niet alleen het mechanische lichaam maar ook wat de geschiedenis is van andere figuren die Lady Mechanika ontmoet op haar eigen zoektocht.

De auteur en tekenaar Joe Benitez heeft me verrast met dit boek. Ik zou denken dat met zo'n thema als zoeken naar de eigen oorsprong, er niet veel nieuws te halen valt. Toch weet hij het heel spannend te maken en te houden door de aantrekkelijke tekeningen en fantasievolle wezens en apparaten (denk aan bijvoorbeeld vliegende auto met vogelvleugels).

De tekenstijl is realistisch met overdrijvingen zoals de wespentaille en enorme borsten van Lady Mechanika. Toch voelt het heel erg passen bij het verhaal zelf.
Deels lijken de lijnen nooit heel strak getekend waardoor het slordig en zelfs wat laks op mij overkomt. Ik heb het vermoeden dat de strip geheel digitaal getekend is en de slordige lijnen te maken hebben met het aantal pixels waarmee de tekeningen worden weergegeven. Ik lees deze strip op een relatief grote monitor, een formaat waar het zeker niet voor gemaakt is.

Al is Lady Mechanika wat dichter bij haar eigen oorsprong gekomen, het is duidelijk dat ze nog een weg te gaan heeft. En daarom kijk ik zeker al uit naar het volgende deel. ( )
  Niekchen | Oct 30, 2023 |
I loved everything about this graphic novel collection. It is beautifully illustrated, the characters are well developed, and the story is entertaining and draws you along with it. This is easily one of my new favorites! I would totally cosplay Lady Mechanika, well done! Thanks to NetGalley for providing a copy in exchange for my review. ( )
  McBeezie | Jul 27, 2022 |
Totally loving this art, I was a little worried that the writing would be terrible, but I liked it a lot. Would love to see this as a series or a movie. ( )
  ragwaine | Apr 14, 2022 |
Love, love, loved it! ( )
  NagathaChristie | Jan 7, 2022 |
The Graphics/Artwork

I love the illustrations for Lady Mechanika Benitez did an amazing job of giving the characters life and color. Since the story takes place in 1800s in a steampunkish society Benitez allows his imagination to roar to life with inventions and gadgets that impressive and functional. His details are amazing yet they don't distract from the story which I like. Using the artwork can be a bit of a hit or miss for me, but Lady Mechanika was a total hit for me. While I am not sure how historically accurate the dressing is I can say I love them, Especially Lady Mechanika's wardrobe. They give her respectability while also making her look cool, and yes while they are tight clothing and there is even one image that draws attention to her boobs (they were talking about her necklace) they did not overly sexualize the character in my opinion. In fact I found a lot of her outfits pretty badass. Lady Mechanika is beautiful I will say and I can hardly fault Benitez in that sense. I have yet to see him throw her in a non-sensible outfit.

The Story

This is the beginning of comic series and we can see a boom in mechanics taking off yet, Lady Mechanika is already well know, she is a great fighter (and shooter) and her gadgets are to die for, while Benitez could have gone the origin route he didn't, this is because our Heroine is searching for her origins, we are learning with her why she was picked to become half Mechanics and half women. She is currently searching for who made her and why. While throughout the story we are fed bits and pieces of her life pre-series, I enjoy this as it doesn't take away from what's going on in 'present day', I'm not trying to process what happened to her while learning more information, Benitez poses the story like a puzzle a mystery we are tying to solve with the heroine to feel more connected to her. This makes you want to keep reading but like Lady Mechanika you start to feel a need to know what happened to her. Of course that's not the only thing going on especially with our heroine discovering other mechanical people like herself, oh ucky….

Our Heroine (Lady Mechanika)

Lady Mechanika is pretty badass, she has amazing gadgets, she's beautiful with Red eyes, Long dark black hair and creamy white skin with a complexion to die for. There is a overwhelming huge cloud of loneliness that I can see in her. She doesn't know why she was made, or who made her and since she is not quite human it's hard to bond with others because she will always be different. There's also a line which gives a clue to the fact that she may not be able to reproduce which gives a huge sadness as she will never have a family (I'm not saying that’s what makes a woman of anything like that, it's just with no siblings or parents around and not being able to have children it's just sad…) of her own. There's also a great compassion that she seems to keep hidden with her tough exterior, while Benitez allows us glimpses of, this tells us that or Heroine is a good person. Yes she does kill, and while I won't debate the merits of this, I can tell you in my opinion it's not she does off hand.

Overall

I really enjoyed Volume 1 of Lady Mechanika so much so that I immediately moved on to Volume 2, I know I will have to continue buying the comics as I know how more space (must buy all the books!). Lady Mechanika is a kickass female with a great story and gorgeous artwork, if that is something you are interested in you really need to read this.
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  Lattes_Literature | Dec 23, 2021 |
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A newly remastered edition of the steampunk adventure series' first volume, featuring a revised script and updated lettering. In a Victorian world filled with flying dirigibles and clockwork automatons, a young woman searches desperately for the secrets to her past-a past that left her with extraordinary, but unnatural, mechanical limbs.

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