Kevin C. Wong

Aphrodite IX: The Complete Series (2023) [/]

Aphrodite IX: The Complete Series is an omnibus collection of the following comics:

Aphrodite IX #1-11 - Cyborg hunter-killer Aphrodite IX wakes up a thousand years in the future after Earth has been devastated. She is an amnesiac caught between two warring factions which represent genetically-engineered humans and technologically-enhanced humans.

Aphrodite IX/Cyberforce #1 - a one-shot continuation that answers questions and ties the thousand-year future to today's Cyberforce (which has an earlier Aphrodite version in its team).

Aphrodite IX: Time Out of Mind #0-4 - In New Chicago (home to the tech-enhanced humans) Aphrodite IX keeps waking up with no memories because after every assassination mission she forgets everything. She needs to find out what's going on before the police figure out she's the killer. I suppose this series is set a few years after A/C 1.

The series is intended to be science-fiction in the old sense of being scientifically/technologically accurate and the primary science is genetic manipulation and cybertech. Stjepan Sejic is the artist and I like his works. Not a bad read though many too many unanswered questions left for the future, which is fine for a comic book but not so for a work of literature.