Yes, I've missed number 9 - I'm still reading that. For various reasons, I can only read that at home so I took this to work and read it on my lunch break.
It's an interesting concept. In this world, since an event some years previously, anyone with psychic powers can release "figments" from their dreams and imaginations out into the real world.
It's up to the Inspector Judges to track the figments that escape down when they either destroy it, reinsert it into the dreamer or allow it to roam free in society as its own living creature.
Our hero Daher stumbles on a conspiracy when the son of a prominent politician loses a powerful and potentially dangerous figment.
It's nicely written, very inclusive - Daher is a black lesbian and her lover and her daughter are the two narrators of the comic book. Some people will take that as a bad thing, but those people are idiots and bigots.
It's nicely twisty and turny with a few big surprises along the way. There is plenty of strong social commentary, a police state where even your dreams are monitored... etc. The artwork is sharp and clear although I found a couple of the characters hard to distinguish between.
The worldbuilding is surprisingly good on reflection. Considering the brevity of it (5 issues of a comic bound into one edition) the world feels natural and complete. The stranger concepts are introduced seamlessly.
All in all a nice little cheat read to go with my chicken curry.
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