{"id":680,"date":"2016-01-29T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutcomics.blogwyrm.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2016-02-03T21:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T02:15:05","slug":"a-marvel-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutcomics.blogwyrm.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Unfollowing Unfollow"},"content":{"rendered":"

It begins mysterious enough.\u00a0 A well-dressed man, wielding a semi-automatic weapon, and wearing an Oni mask has just tracked down and murdered one of his fellow beings.\u00a0 The dead body having fallen over a cliff, our assassin confirms the kill by glancing down onto the rocks below.\u00a0 Satisfied that his job is done, he utters:<\/p>\n

\"Reubenstein_unfollow\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And so begins Unfollow<\/em>, the new, ongoing Vertigo series by Williams, Dowling, and Winter.<\/p>\n

Of course, the phrase \u2018one hundred forty characters\u2019, immediately conjures images of Twitter but one suspects that there is more.\u00a0 After all, there is no evidence that the launch of Twitter was any more harmful than to cause mild damage to the diets, eyes, and familial relationships of the many programmers that made it possible.<\/p>\n

Playing on two different meanings of \u2018character\u2019, Unfollow<\/em> is really a Lord-of-the-Flies look at what happens when a rich entrepreneur, by the name of Farrell, leaves his 18-billion-dollar fortune to 140 random persons.<\/p>\n

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Rubinstein, our Japanese-faced enforcer, works for Farrell but seems to be a loose cannon.\u00a0 His function is the clean up around the edges so that Farrell\u2019s morality play can develop as planned.<\/p>\n

The rest of the action so far (issues #1-3 are out as of this writing), is devoted to the identification of the key winners, the gathering of them to Farrell\u2019s island (what else) and the setting of the stage.<\/p>\n

The story focuses on five key characters:<\/p>\n