These are the first impressions of the webcomic Cosmic Dash.
First Genre analysis
Rebellion bad/status tragic, thriller/espionage/status admiration good, Action holdout prescriptive morality testing
Archplot – 1 Maru 2 Kracker 3 Dash
Demographic guess (generalising here): early teens - 30. No adult audience here. Psychographic science fiction fans jaded by Star Wars and into Ratchet and Clank media-wise.
1.
. Ai as adversial force was the force here, my personal fave was hal-9000 and Bender from futurama.
. Twist on the mad scientist cliche, the tragic scientist. Bittersweet Kimney could use an additional scene, including bucketbot.
. Amusement park, entertainment, Bucketbot! Comic relief.
. Hive mind got it coming; well, it's a cute act and could lead to more complications.
2.
. Orthos had screen time, along with Kracker
With the empire being the adversial. Sombre with Orthos.
. Package felt macguffiny. The infiltration plot felt more sincere.
. Would of liked to see Kracker develop afterwards. Can only draw so much screen time. So understandable.
. Abstractions of backgrounds and intense moments nice touch. Compared to the concrete reality, did not mind at all.
3.
. The father's mercenary life is the adversarial force here. A grudge of a throat.
. Old master is the one with a save, Maru with a matter, yet is Dash holding to principle via not killing? Fave scene: the last flashback, all complications considered.
. Wonder how Dash could have broken a wrist.
Conclusion.
This is Teen stuff, due to the reality complications of being a teacher, David now does freelance and serialised novels. Shame it's underrated. That's the price to pay when everybody can commercially copyright.
The last one I read was the most cognitaiment.