The Man Who Invented The World Review

What do we really know about the nature of the universe, and about what is hidden in the dark depths of space? Navigator Captain John Bowman is the sole survivor of an exploratory mission to the far reaches of the cosmos. Upon his return, he is plagued by terrible nightmares... but also endowed with an extraordinary power. A power capable of destroying our world... or perhaps reshaping it?

General Impressions

I picked this up without knowing the slightest thing about it other than it is sci-fi and I was getting some Aurora Rising vibes from it so that was enough for me.

I was a few pages in when I realized that I was going to have a lot of reasons to like this book: the art looked great, the plot was interesting, I had no idea where it was headed and I desperately wanted to know.

Then everything went wrong.

We follow two characters in the military: a woman who has a desk job and a man who piloted space ships, who meet at the end of their missions for some downtime.

This is a story set in the future where androids exist to do all sorts of menial or boring jobs and yet, (most if not) all those androids are PoC.

Soon after that, the female character has to be given a medical exam by a middle-aged, overweight doctor, who looks like the definition of a predator and of course, she has to be drawn completely naked. On two separate occasions. How would the readers get any excitement in this story otherwise?

The story is good, but not good enough for me to let go of that or how we are supposed to root for a romantic hero that tells the woman several times that she looks like a man and should try not to.

Seriously, what the hell?!

Thank you to NetGalley and Europe Comics for gifting me this DRC

Rating: 2/5