Three cheers for the mini kus folks always posting links to the artists on their comics page, because an internet search for “Mao comics” was getting me exactly nowhere. This one is based on an intriguing concept: the androids in Blade Runner were designed so that they couldn’t evolve and they all had set expiration points. Well, what if all of that was disregarded, and no moral constraints at all were placed on genetic engineering? This one specifically deals with octopuses (which I’d always thought was octopi, but it’s mentioned enough here that I’m starting to doubt it). Specifically, since they usually only breed once before dying, what if that constraint was removed, along with tinkering with the results? This is going to be another one of those cases where I don’t want to say a whole lot about the evolving plot, but come on, when has checking out a mini kus comic ever been a bad idea? Maybe a literal few times in the (as of this one) 136 issue run? It’s a story well told, with the scientists being very human (worried about bad press and bad pictures in the stories about their work), the octopuses breaking containment at just about the first opportunity, and what happens when they inevitably run into other humans. As always, it’s $7 for just this one or $22 for a set of four different comics, and you know which option I always recommend. Hint: it’s the “you mean I basically get a free comic?” version.
Posted by Kevin 
