I'm a big Willumsen fan and this didn't disappoint at all, even if it's very different from his other comics I've read. I bought this anthology for the 18-page Connor Willumsen comic it contains, 'My Grandma Was My Bounty'. Mag's future volumes and I really hope that Peow can manage to sort out their shipping troubles (no fault of their own, and this is so down on the list of priorities within a global pandemic) so I can read this again when the print issue arrives.

I'm definitely excited to continue on with reading Ex. There aren't any true duds here, just a few entries that seem to simply rehash well-worn cyberpunk narratives, and I think I'd like Tonci Zonjic's comic more had Ines Estrada's wonderful 'Alienation' didn't feature a similar narrative thread. The story gets even wilder once they arrive at their destination. And all the while, they're being hunted by one of their grandchildren, an unseen person who's used gene-hacking to mutate into a human-dolphin hybrid. The last piece, it follows two people in a dystopian world following the 'terrapocalypse' and various robot wars as they attempt to find a refuge one of them sees in a dream.

Connor Willumsen's 'My Grandma Was My Bounty' was also a standout. I love how she uses space in ways that don't mirror our world's physics in a story that's really about the difficulty in finding connections, romantic or otherwise. Sophia Foster Domino's comic about a funky dating application that uses virtual art galleries in place of alphabetic profiles and fish photos is easily my favorite piece. As with every anthology, this one is hit or miss. An anthology of comics based around cyberpunk as the connecting theme.

EX.Mag, Vol. 01 by Peow Studio