Conversely, this issue is light on political intrigue, but is heavier on the typical Aphrodite action. The previous issues were full of a lot of political intrigue, particularly in Speros since its senior military leader, Chronos, wants a full-scale war with Genesis and he will do whatever it takes to make that happen. She questions what is happening to her and she struggles to come to terms with what she has done and what she might be forced to do.

This issue deals with the fallout of that death and we finally begin to really explore how Aphrodite feels about all that is happening with her and around her. When last we saw Aphrodite IX, she had once again been mind-controlled by her handler Burch into killing another character, someone close to the new ruler of Genesis City, Marcus. Except making the story and the characters more awesome. The paper is thicker than the current paper being used by Image in their deluxe editions.There is absolutely nothing in this issue that Matt Hawkins does that he already hasn’t done before. The book itself has sewn binding with oversize pages. It's unclear where her role with that story line lines up with the two stories here (far or near future?). The character does appear in another comic book called Cyberforce. We get to see Aphrodite being used as the assassin she was created to be while struggling with her memory loss after each mission. The second arc is 100ish year in our future, but long before the first arc when Aphrodite is created and the world is teetering towards an undescribed catastrophe. The two different societies are at war and Aphrodite, an assassin with deadly skills, is caught in the middle while trying to figure out who she is and who is randomly taking control of her. One is highly technical and modifies and replaces body parts in an effort to improve humanity and the other does gene breeding to do the same. Humanity has survived some sort of near extinction event with two competing branches left. The first is 900 years in Aphrodite's future when she wakes up without any memory of who she is. Finch pencils the latter half and I've liked his art in the past, here is no exception to past experience. It looks as if the book is headed out of print so I picked up a copy to check it out before it gets outrageously expensive. I knew there was a statue for this character, perhaps more than one but hadn't ever read anything featuring her.

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