Solid State

"Musician Jonathan Coulton turned to writer Matt Fraction and artist Albert Monteys to tranform his concept album Solid State into a graphic novel set largely in a future that will seem familiar to any reader of science fiction: a corporate-owned dystopia where humans have become dutiful, unthinking, unfeeling worker bees attending to menial tasks amid a culture engineered to keep them unthinking and unfeeling. But the true subject of the book is not where humanity ends up, but how we’ll get from here to there. These three creators believe that the roots of a dystopic future lie all around us, but we’re collectively choosing to ignore them. As a consequence, the mood that Solid State leaves the reader in is a singular and contradictory one: a blithe, doggedly cheerful sense of hopelessness."