O Human Star

O Human Star is a three-part comic by Blue Delliquanti, largely following the story of Alistair Sterling, a robotics engineer who dies and is resurrected from a copy of his memories into a synthetic body.

It's about identity, death, the development of AI, all wrapped up in a very affecting love story and the inner struggles of the three main characters - Al, his partner (in both business and personal life) Brendan, and a synthetic teenage girl, also created from a version of Al's memories.

I really enjoyed this - it has some interesting things to say and is very successfully emotive in all the right ways.

To Kill A Mockingbird

Dave got me to read To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee for our podcast - and it was fine.

It wasn't really how I'd imagined it somehow, knowing almost nothing about it at all going in. Not all that much actually happened, and it was quite dry and didactic with a lot of the characters giving periodic speeches that encapsulated the message. But the very end brought thing all together in a very satisfying way and got me in the feels to a certain extent.

So, I can't say I actively disliked it, but I wouldn't put it in my favourites list either!