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NYC Mech Volume 2: Beta Love

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A bus driver with a fightin' past has his world turned upside down when a female assassin hijacks his bus all to get his attentions. As the two begin their relationship, he realises she is doing terrible things for the two of them to live the life they want - will he stand up to her or go along with it? Oh yeah and everyone and everything in this world is a robot.

And that's where the book falls down for me. Everyone's a robot but they behave exactly like humans. They eat, they sleep, they wear clothes, they have sex, they have exactly the same moral codes, the same culture, that humans have. So it's effectively unimaginative and uncreative, the only difference is the superficial change of having the characters be made of metal instead of flesh.

I couldn't get past the pointless anachronism to really embrace this book. While the story tries to be exciting, it never really becomes that. The female assassin is the generic female assassin you've seen in The Matrix or Black Widow or Catwoman or literally dozens of other more interesting characters. The bus driver is so dull you don't care about him or the choices he faces, you just wish something interesting happens - and it doesn't.

For a book trying so hard to be cool and chic it comes off as neither and instead fails to even be an interesting oddity as any chances of originality the writers/artists might have infused into the world are completely ignored. Not an essential read by any stretch, it's no wonder NYC Mech has all but disappeared in the scant 4 years since it arrived.