Image Comics’ Made In Korea #2 continues the story of Jesse, the ‘different’ child proxy that has quietly been shipped to the United States. And now its inventor/programmer wants “her” back.
Writer Jeremy Holt has a great speculative fiction storyline here. It’s about the lovable android child, and how this child learns and relates to the world around it. The tangled web is fun too: the dangers that Jesse encounters when she enters Walden high school. A paradise it’s not. The kids are interested in this genius, for all the wrong reasons.
Artist and colourist George Schall handles the visuals in a way that emphasizes the ‘order and organization’ aspect of life. In other words, the clean lines, the pale pastel and grey colouring, the large areas of white space within the panel compositions, all lead us to seeing the atmosphere of the created child, the child prodigy at its most clinical.
The early sequences in Korea, where the inventor is being questioned by company representatives gets a bit awkward, with notes that their dialogue has been translated from Korean to English. We get it, of course, no need for every dialogue balloon to have.
A good read, with loads of drama, nice setups for conflict.
The backup Proxy story, “A Lure”, written and illustrated by Ben Cohen is three pages of line drawings in small panels with brown background tone. I didn’t understand the story, so to be fair, I’ll just mention that it was too opaque for me.
Image Comics, Made In Korea #2, $3.99 for 24 pages of main story content. Mature
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