Caution: On Mars_ downer ending. :( (www.kickstarter.com)

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First, let me say, I'm an absolute sucker for European style graphic novels. So when I caught On Mars_ at my local shop, I thumbed through it... Yeah, I'm in.

Dystopian future, criminals are used as slave labor to build a colony on Mars. The story follows a new prisoner, sent to Mars for 20 years. As a police officer, she accidentally killed a kid, the daughter of an influential politician.

The prison colony is full of gangs, religious fanatics, and escapees operating in the wild.

Through the three sections, she encounters these multiple groups and struggles to survive. Until someone decides to overthrow the power structure and take over everything for themselves.

It's honestly, a GREAT read, I had no problem with it at all until the last few pages.

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The religious fanatics attempt a coup and part of this involves bringing in a ship and drones controlled by them.

The protagonist of the story fights them to a standstill, finds a hacker character to take over control of the new drones, and... then he has the new drones kill everyone. THE END!

There's maybe 3, 4 more pages after that and I kept reading hoping for a fakeout... there isn't one. Our dude was damaged enough to off himself and everyone else on Mars.

HUGE downer of an ending, not sure what they're going for there. It's not like Snowpiercer where you know the downer ending is coming, it just comes out of left field. "And then they all died!"

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