Far Sector - N. K. Jemisin, Jamall Campbell. (2020 - 2021)

Holyshit... HOLYSHIIIIIIIIT. This is, by far, one of the best comic series I've read in my whole life, it's probably just one of the best stories I've read in my life. I feel like this will be one of those entries that are contradictorialy short because I loved this comic so much that I can barely find words to describe it (spoiler alert: it, indeed, was quite long). In general I can just say that is really good fucking written. Science Fiction is a genre with a lot of potential to make a deep introspection and sensible in really complex themes, and this story achieves it perfectly. A futuristic city in wich is illegal to feel emotion, and in which suddenly a violent crime takes place it's a really ambitious premise, and any less skilled writer definitley would have done a disaster with it, but Jemisin uses it in the best way to build a complex and hooking plot that  covers themes of power, inequality, revolution, manipulation, repression, justice and, evidently, emotion. I love the way in wich it rescues emotions as one of the most important parts of any sensible being, and it's a direct slap towards all the stupid philosophical, religious and even cultural takes that despise them today, and it does all of this through the perspective of its protagonist, who is a black woman, whose major ability in this world is being emotional and reactive, it's fantastic. It is a direct and brilliant criticism about the social environment in which it lives (specially considering it was published throughout all of 2020 and half of 2021), it makes direct and well constructed criticism to police and political systems, it has succes in point that other stories would dream to cover, and that's exactly the point of sci-fi, to question and analize its environment to exagerate it and represent it with technology and scientifical advances, it's the best kind of history that you can find in the genre.

And a great part of what makes the story and its plot to be so effective undoubtedly is the world in wich everything takes place, and how well it is done. The City Enduring is a city as complex and rich in meaning as the story that takes place in it, it's a vibrant and alive place, like a real city, but is also complex and diverse, and it's all the strange that you would wait of an alien city; proof of how well done it is it's the way that, when you enter the comic. all the city, its history and irs people confused me a lot, but when I finished the story I felt so familiarized and connected with the city, its culture and its inhabitants (even without needindg to fully undertand them) that I even felt bad about having to leave it and get back to the real world, and this, at the same time, is achieved through explaining to you in little bits all the stories and complexities of the thousands of millions of people who inhabit the city, divided in 3 literal races, that at the same time are completely disctinct even on the most basic appearance aspects, and all of the count with cultures, rituals and experiences that are just as radically different but all of the same feel just as complex and well constructed, all end up feeling like what they are: groups of people (not technically people but still) that, even when they have similar cultural and physical characteristics, are so rich and complex on their individuality as they are in group, they feel real, which takes me to mi next point on why this story is so fucking good. Because its complex and real world wouldn't be not even the half of what it is if it wasn't unhabited by characters as real and complex. From Jo (the protagonist, who's the only human with emotions that can save the chaos that the city has become), to @ICanHaz (the protagonist's assisten, member of an entire race of artifficial intelligences advanced enough to feel emotions and repress them, race in wich everyone have @ in their names and they feed, ,literally, off of memes), you understand perfectly the motivations and inner world of all the characters that are on the story, you see that they're complex individuals, with a lot of faults and even when they do very cuestionable things the story never stops treating them like that: complex and complicated individuals, with motivations just as complex and complicated, that makes tou connect with its world and everything that happens in it, what's even more, tou end up feeling like tou reallt know these irreal and surreal characters, and just as the city, it hurts saying goodbye to them (Marth you hot mess I love you so fucking much). 

All of this is complemented and helped a lot by the increidbly beautiful and precise art of Jamall Campbell, that makes this vibrant cit, characters and text come alive and turn into something more (besides providing the best design that a Green Lantern has ever had), all of this and more gets together and ends up creating a symphony of a story that is magnificent and trascending. As prevously stated, it's the best type of sci-fi there is, and it's definitely the tipe of sci-fi that we need right now.