• 8.0
  Comic Crusaders - Brax Jun 14, 2018

  Genre distinctions aside, the story helps the death, blood, and guts to cohere around what might be this series' core questions " what does it mean to be alive if you aren't really awake OR what does it mean to be dead if you really are? All of the things in our world that mimic the sleeping deaths that Metro is exploring " drug abuse, comas, even actual sleep " suggest a certain disconnect from consciousness that mirrors the malaise so rampant in our real waking realities. The boundaries between being painfully aware of our realities and the desire to find ways to be painlessly disconnected from them don't seem to exist in the world of Metro. But in blurring those distinctions maybe we can all become a little more woke about the world in which we live. 4/5. Read Full Review

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