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Ghost Money: Death in Dubai (2008)

di Thierry Smolderen

Serie: Ghost Money (1)

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Intriguing characters and plotlines intertwine in anear-future political thriller drawing on contemporary world events and actualgrowing technology contributing to a cyberwar in both reality and virtualreality. When Lindsey, a young student in London, is rescued from a riot byChamza, a young woman from the Arab world, they begin a relationship based onboth fascination and convenience. Before she knows it, Lindsey is drawn into aworld of vast wealth and intrigue; her new friend seems to have ties topolitical movements and revolutionaries throughout the Islamic world, but it isnot clear what their agenda might be, or where her great wealth comes from.Could it be the fabled legendary lost treasure of Al-Qaeda, supposedly amassedthrough insider trading prior to 9/11? Unbeknownst to either Lindsey or Chamza,a set of US contractors, all veterans of war in Iraq and the CIA's renditionprogram, are focusing their sites on Chamza, believing her wealth is indeed thekey to a larger threat to the entire world economy. The series looks atsurveillance, clandestine military action, and class warfare in the twilight ofthe current War on Terror, all within the context of a thriller that ultimatelyseeks to find out what controls the global economy.… (altro)
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Utter Shit
The artwork is fine.
The story progresses nicely.

But the story is shit and full of cliches. The americans are evil, sadistic and worse. The arabs are the noble desert people. Somehow they talk about 9/11 but fail to acknowledge who is responsible for thousands of deaths! ( )
  cwebb | Aug 23, 2019 |
What if 9/11 was really a plot for Al-Qaeda to gain money through short-selling stocks and then someone made an action movie about it with sex robots? If you have ever asked this question, then do I have the comic for you!

Pros: interesting idea, international locales, double-crosses and sneakiness abounding!

Cons: Hard to distinguish between some of the CIA operatives (perhaps a consequence of my low-res review copy?), lots of goofy action-movie tropes, written by people who like to draw/look at boobs, i.e.:

https://www.reluctantm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dubai1.png

Seriously? She takes off her coat and there they are? WHY ARE YOU NOT WEARING A BRA CHAZMA (that's her name)? With knockers that size, you need a bra.

Here she is a frame before:

https://www.reluctantm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dubai2.png

where we can see her coat's furry collar between her head and the dude behind her. And then, next frame, coat off, and:

https://www.reluctantm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/dubai1.png

gravity-free boob city! Then there are like five more frames after this just so we can stare at her boobs.

(Not even mentioning that this is a surgical suite and she walks in right off the street with her clothes, no sterilization, and then promptly receives non-life-saving (i.e. there was time to properly sterilize and put on a hospital gown) surgery to her face, so why is she topless?)

How long until my blog devolves into just me posting photos from comic books with bad female anatomy? People who write comics, you do understand that there aren't special spacial dimensions that exist solely around breast tissue, right? Right? Because I'm starting to believe that you guys don't understand how breasts work at all.

Or maybe she has implants and they are hard as rocks with steel reinforcements to keep them up. I don't know.

Ghost Money: Death in Dubai by Thierry Smolderen and Dominique Bertail Lee went on sale July 31, 2018.

I received a copy free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. ( )
  reluctantm | Feb 22, 2019 |
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Intriguing characters and plotlines intertwine in anear-future political thriller drawing on contemporary world events and actualgrowing technology contributing to a cyberwar in both reality and virtualreality. When Lindsey, a young student in London, is rescued from a riot byChamza, a young woman from the Arab world, they begin a relationship based onboth fascination and convenience. Before she knows it, Lindsey is drawn into aworld of vast wealth and intrigue; her new friend seems to have ties topolitical movements and revolutionaries throughout the Islamic world, but it isnot clear what their agenda might be, or where her great wealth comes from.Could it be the fabled legendary lost treasure of Al-Qaeda, supposedly amassedthrough insider trading prior to 9/11? Unbeknownst to either Lindsey or Chamza,a set of US contractors, all veterans of war in Iraq and the CIA's renditionprogram, are focusing their sites on Chamza, believing her wealth is indeed thekey to a larger threat to the entire world economy. The series looks atsurveillance, clandestine military action, and class warfare in the twilight ofthe current War on Terror, all within the context of a thriller that ultimatelyseeks to find out what controls the global economy.

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