Comic review: Alex + Ada #12- Breaking free from the lying box

Created by: Sarah Vaughn & Jonathan Luna
Publisher: Image Comics
Released: 28th January 2015


Alex + Ada #12 is an excellent book, but if you have read any of the previous issues you already know that.

I’ve already done quite a few reviews of the previous issues of this book, so please check them out if you think that I say anything interesting during this particular review. I'm a bit of a ranter, but I do occasionally stumble onto moments of truth, and this particular comic book gives me the opportunity to discuss some of the more pressing matters and concerns of our times.

On to issue #12 then, because as a stand-alone book it offers some very interesting new developments that I want to talk about. It begins with a fascinating case study that demonstrates the contrasts between a mainstream media narrative and the real world reality behind that narrative.

In short, a man who has been ‘programmed’ to think one way by the dominant mainstream media of his time comes across the reality behind that programming. After experiencing that reality his strongly held (but not properly examined) belief system crumbles. Real world experience breaks the programming, and he is already on his own personal journey of awakened reality.

That’s an important thing to discuss in a comic, especially when you look at what is happening in our real world reality of 2015.

At the current time the dominant mind programmers of the world are what can be collectively termed the ‘corporate mainstream media.’ It is their role to program your mind, to frame reality in a twisted way that suits their corporate control system. Truth has no role to play in their deliberately dumbed down manipulation of current events.

I admit that this next statement is an over-simplification, but a general rule of thumb is that when the corporate mainstream media tell you that something is black, then you can be pretty sure that if it’s not white, then it’s plenty of shades of colours, and those colours are not going to be discussed between the advert breaks.

If enough people obtained their information from real world experience rather than the mind control system that is their newspaper and television then a revolution would happen and the left/right political circus would be as redundant as it should be. The lesson of this issue of Alex + Ada then is to talk to your neighbours, talk to strangers, talk to your supposed enemy, just talk, and stop believing what corporate controllers are programming you to believe.

Narratively speaking, a death is always a big event, but when it happens in this particular book that death is only the background to the bigger picture. The book has already discussed consciousness, and now it’s moving on to the big questions, the questions that we all want answered:

What happens when the body dies? Does consciousness continue, or does it end?

This excellent book has already established that consciousness is about being aware, about breaking free from the mind control programming that society cages us within. The androids in the book are either aware or unaware, as are the humans. To use the popular vernacular that is used in so-called ‘conspiracy’ circles, some people are awake, but most are sleeping ‘sheeple.’

The western world as it is today is made up of two groups. The first group consists of order followers and career repeaters who read newspapers, watch television and repeat the mind control programming that is given to them by their controllers. The second (much smaller) group consists of truth seekers, of independent individuals who are actively attempting to break free from the mind-control and to get to the truth behind the myriad of lies that define our times. Guess which group the lying box in the corner of your living room wants you to belong to?

Some people might think that I’m going over the top here, making all of these statements when I should just be enjoying the comic book as a bit of silly sci-fi entertainment. They might even mock me and insist that I’m seeing things that are not there. I don’t think that this is the case. I read the book, and what I take from it I put into this review. That’s what I do, that’s the entire point of my blog. I want to talk about the bigger issues, and a comic book like Alex + Ada is perfect because it’s content allows me to do so.

I’ve heard other reviewers complain that this is a slow paced book that lacks excitement and action scenes, but don’t let that put you off. It’s slow for a good reason. That reason is that it has something to say, and it wants to say it properly. So far it’s doing an excellent job, and this issue, having already covered the initial philosophical aspects of consciousness is going to the logical end point, exploring what happens to us when we die. All of this in a comic book. It’s quite amazing really. I leave this issue of Alex + Ada #12 feeling happy, entertained, intellectually energised and above everything else, deeply, deeply impressed with the quality of writing that is on display here.

Rating: 10/10