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Hackers and Assassins
In the dark decadent world of our future, Mankind has found themselves close
to the extinction with the last city on Earth. Forced to implement a controversial
Natural Selection process, the government built a wall surrounding the last
city named Olympia. By a careful selection process using our genes and DNA,
the Kalafkan Government chose only the best and most promising to survive
the destruction of Olympia, before building a new city where it once was.
This process led to a crime known as DNA Hacking, where people steal genes
and DNA in hopes of entering Demeter. The government started hiring assassins,
to take out and kill these hackers who have polluted the system. In exchange,
the Assassins are granted entry to Demeter. Michelle is one of those Assassins.
Forced to render her services to the government by any means necessary,
Michelle can only hope that death wouldn't take her soul down like Olympia
would. The Gene Generation is a science fiction movie about romance, revenge
and redemption.
Spoiler response:
I received some positive reviews for the comic book. But
as I was reading them, I noticed that the reviewers were actually worried
that reading the comic book would be a spoiler for the movie. So I will
take the time to address that particular issue. There are no spoilers for
the movie in regards to the comic book. The comic book presents elements
in the movie in a regard of similar style and vision but an alternate way
of telling the story. Different characters die, and they go through different
arcs in the actual comic book. It was actually pleasing to write the comic
book, given that I had creative rein over it. Bloodfire edited my work only
in terms of space and layout but kept the entire story intact. With no producer
or distributors in my realm, I just went ballistic in the comic.
-Pearry
Reginald Teo
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What others have said about DNA Hacker Chronicles:
"In a not too unreal future, DNA hacking devices upgrade the human condition. Christian has stolen one such device as he sees it to be too dangerous. Problem is that the company that designed it is also dangerous.
Singapore isn’t known for it’s cinema, but Pearry Teo is looking to change all that. Gene Generation is the first Hollywood movie made by someone from the Asian Island. This companion to that movie is filled with assassins, industrial intrigue and lots of action. It also features an ending that really threw me for a loop. I mean it comes from nowhere and everything you learned changes. The art by Matt Olson and Lee Kohse is stunning. It is like Ben Templesmith colored some Mike Norton art. There is a concise portrayal of action and interesting character designs. Expressions seem to come alive.
This is the kind of gem I like to find. I had heard very little about it, but it is very good and worth the hunt."
Lee Newman - Broken Frontier
"This comix was originally independently created and marketed several years ago, 'The DNA Hacker Chronicles' was an immediate sell-out and eventually went on to be the basis and inspiration for the uber-cool cyber-punk movie, ''The Gene Generation'.
The artistic Gods of underground comix at Bloodfire studios have reworked, redone and rereleased the hugely popular underground comix to tie-in with the movie.
I'm not an expert on comix or 'graphic novels' nor do I even like them as a rule - anything that involves Neil Gaiman and/or Dave McKean would be an exception.
But guess what? I LOVE this one! The artists that bring this story to life are Khose and Olsen and what they can do on a page of several non-moving frames far eclipses anything Spielberg can do with state-of-the-art multi-million dollar film!
Bloodfire does not churn out your typical mass-market DC-style comix. They are true artists in every sense of the word. Damn, the fight scenes in Vol. 1 are every bit as intense and compelling as the very best shots from the movie.
Speaking of the movie, The Chronicles are NOT a preview or a rehash of the movie nor does it contain any spoilers if you haven't seen it yet. Instead this is the ongoing episodic back-story featuring most of the main main characters from the movie,
but in a prolonged story-mode that leads us to the climatic finish that is 'The gene Generation'."
Celeste - The Underground Mine
"The artwork in Gene Generation is stunning! It does an amazing job of showing the dystopia that Olympia is in. The colors used set the environment and ambiance of the city giving the reader a sense of how terrible Earth has become.
They also add to the characters emotions and overall mood of the scenes.
The action sequences are fantastic with much detail in dismemberment of people, the stabbing of them and the living transcoder itself. Even if you are illiterate, the illustrations alone are gratifying enough to pick up this issue.
Jessica Villarreal - Girls got game
"This is how gritty biopunk looks in 2008 on a fair dose of dexedrine. The
comics version of Pearry Reginald Teo's “THE GENE GENERATION”, The DNA Hacker
Chronicles is hard to deal with: die-hard cyberpunk aficionados have been
waiting for the real Grail to come for years, so the first issue is a huge
spoiler and a nod to each character the trailer has already familiarized
us with, so it's not the novelty that strikes us but how we put our little
pieces of info and previously imagined screenplay together. But of course
I'm intentionally missing the point here. What Olson and Kohse did in the
graphics department is like the rigid neon-intensive body of the classic
cyberpunk canon fisted by Quinn & Vigil's Faust, making the first issue
an anti-blipvert, five minutes of fast-forward screen action rendered into
22 pages of static pastel. Interestingly, the yellowsh, greenish and dark
tints of the movie trailer have given over their space to hazes of red,
green and brown and we see more of the action than the world - a few subtle
details on the streets or in dialogues could have made this issue even more
desirable than it already is. Biopunks and cyberpunks should grab this piece
of demonic wisdom, nevertheless. Hope you like it, I surely did!
Damage - Dose Magazine
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