Junction True

author: Ray Fawkes
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.28
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2015/11/28
date added: 2015/11/28
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Junction True' by Ray Fawkes and Vince Locke is at first the kind of nightmarish car wreck you can't take your eyes away from, but becomes even scarier as an indictment of modern obsessive relationships.

In the not too distant future body modification has become pretty extreme. Extreme to the point where surgery alters the body so that it can't live without a symbiote. Dirk Brody has found his love and this is what she wants for them. A unification that is a puppet dependent upon a host. This is what Dirk wants with his love Teralyn. That she never reciprocates those feelings to him, except in sex and violence doesn't seem to perturb Dirk. Dirk's friend Naoko is a blogger of the future. With cameras always on, she is learning of the horrors of what Dirk is about to do to himself and she is trying to stop him.

The illustrations are a bit hazy and unformed and I think they go brilliantly with a story about a man who is blinded by love to the point of mutilating himself and potentially dying. Naoko is that friend that sees what is happening and tries desperately to intervene, and Teralyn has her own motives. Ones in which love doesn't seem to play a part. It's a severe story to read and one you want to look away from, but you just can't.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, Top Shelf Productions, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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