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Naked Bones is a Greek graphic novel, written by Dimosthenis Papamarkos and drawn by Kanellos Cob. It’s a futuristic, dystopian, sci-fi story, which mainly follows a man and his robot companion. It takes place in an irretrievably destroyed planet, which reached that condition after a huge war. The human and the robot survive through the consumption of other humans, until they met a woman, sent from a different planet. Her arrival changes things and the three of them go on an adventure, the outcome of which will impact the entire world.
This is a very interesting comic. The writing is great and every character is unique and has very understandable motives for everything he/she/it does. Also the chemistry between the man and the robot is great. In my opinion the most important thing in any science fiction story is the world building and in here that’s done excellently. It’s a very bleak world, but it’s also very realistic and after reading this comic you feel like you could see yourself living in a horrible world like that. The comic in general is very pessimistic, but in the end it has a tiny bit of hope, which changes the entire feeling you’re left with, after finishing it. Whenever things seem terrible it’s important to remember that there’s always hope. Personally I’m not a huge fan of science fiction, but that’s exactly the kind of science fiction I like, because it uses the medium to showcase certain philosophical ideas. Similar sci-fi movies/comics are Frank Miller’s Ronin, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris.
The artwork by Kanellos Cob is truly beautiful and it works very well. At first I didn’t really like the way the faces were drawn, but after a while I got used to it and I realized that it fits very well with the rest of the artwork. In the graphic novel there are multiple splash pages and all of them are really gorgeous. Kanellos does a great job establishing the various settings where everything takes place. Also, there are multiple pages without any words, in which the reader is entirely dependent on the artwork to follow the story and thanks to Kanellos’ great storytelling abilities and panel to panel consistency, everything flows perfectly and is very easily understood.
Overall, this is a great science fiction comic, with a lot of depth and artistic value. Personally I’d put it amongst the top 10 greatest Greek comics of the last decade and I’d recommend it to anyone interested in reading a more philosophical sci-fi story.
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