Comic review: Alex + Ada #13- How can you read a book if you are asleep?

Story and script assists: Jonathan Luna
Story and script: Sarah Vaughn
Publisher: Image Comics
Released: 18th March 2015


The closing down of free areas of discourse on the Internet, the use of police swat teams to arrest anybody who wants the freedom to be happy outside of mainstream norms. The refusal to prosecute, or even investigate, criminal wrong doings by corporations that squat over democracy, giving orders, raping and pillaging and doing whatever the Hell they want to do until the entire planet is a wasteland.

People no longer say what they want to say because they fear the wrath of their new God. The corporation is God now. Pay your respects, or we’ll send around the swat team of brave uniformed heroes who will drag you away where you will be caged for the rest of your life. Resist and they will murder you, heroically of course.

What am I talking about here? Alex + Ada #13 or corporate controlled westernised capitalism 2015?

It’s quite obvious. I’m talking about both.

Alex + Ada is set in the ‘future,’ with robot Police dogs and android girlfriends, but it’s not really about the future, it’s about NOW. It’s about what happens when you allow corporations to control governments, when you structure your entire society not around human happiness, but corporate profit and human manipulation, control and enslavement.

‘World peace is none of your business
So would you kindly keep your nose out?
The rich must profit and get richer
And the poor must stay poor
Oh, you poor little fool- oh, you fool.’ (World Peace Is None Of Your business, by Morrissey)

You need to fight, or you need to run. Either way you’ll be dealing with uniformed order following agents of the state who will proudly enslave you. That’s what government is, and whether you set in the past, present or future, the message is always the same.

‘Each time you vote you support the process.’ (Morrissey again, same song)

Yes, you do. So, stop voting, stop supporting the process and stop letting them get away with it.

Alex + Ada #13 is about two lovers running from the state. They live in the future, but their story is very much a story of today. Their story is of an awakening of consciousness, of what happens to a sleeping human being when s/he realises that s/he is a slave to the state. S/he wakes, is horrified, tries to find a place to hide, but government allows no place to be happy outside of their control system. The awakened slave is now a threat. Uniformed order followers are sent in, and s/he runs.

Alex + Ada are the bad guys now, at least, that’s how they would be portrayed in the corporate, mainstream media. They have hurt nobody. All they want is to be free and happy and to live their lives the way they see fit. Because of this they are a bigger threat to the state than any terrorist, or any invading army. They want out, so they must be eliminated.

Any refusal to comply must end in prison or death. Send in the drones, send in the lawyers, and send in the mainstream media to justify slavery. Don’t see this story as a nightmare vision of the future. See it as a commentary on what is happening NOW. If you want to break free from the corporate state with their taxes gained at the threat of violence, and arbitrary laws designed to subjugate individual human liberty and freedom then you will be hunted down, imprisoned or murdered.

Alex + Ada is the story of human awakening, of government, and human slavery. It’s a book that a lot of people won’t ‘get.’ That’s very understandable. How can people read a book if they are asleep?


Rating: 9/10



World Peace Is None of Your Business, by Morrissey: