You see these futuristic space movies where we’ve made technological leaps and the world is better. Langford is an idealist who makes this awesome space colony, but it ends up full of crime and drugs, which seems like exactly what we’d do. Paste: That seems like something mankind would probably fail at. So the message, for me, is to cultivate your own spirituality and sense of self, and if you build out from there, if everyone did that, we would see a collective better world. In the process of doing too much they lose so much: Langford lost his humanity, Sasha loses her family. All of these characters are guilty of their reach exceeding their grasp. The idea is, to build a better world you have to make your world better. Michael Moreci: One of the core components we’re dealing with is the human soul, so it’s meant to be a very personal and intimate philosophy about your own life. Paste: If you were going to nail down a philosophical core for the series, what would it be? Eventually we learn, however, these aliens mean not to eradicate mankind but to co-opt it not to destroy humanity but to become human. A nihilistic cult, led by the fearsome head of the colony’s underworld, clears the way for soul-seeking aliens to enter through the anomaly. But ultimately, Roche Limit’s noble intentions give way to vice and iniquity. The Roche Limit colony, as Langford dreamed, would be a path to unparalleled discoveries, a way station from which humanity can splay its tendrils throughout the universe. Langford Skaargred, an idealistic billionaire, poured his fortune into the creation of a deep-space colony on the edge of an anomaly that (unbeknownst to anyone) separates those who enter it from their souls. Throughout the series, Moreci and artists Vic Malhotra, Matt Battaglia and Charles present a world of missed opportunity. At this comic’s bedrock lie some of our heaviest philosophical questions concerning souls, consciousness, the hereafter and our place in the universe, and it leaves those questions unsettlingly, if unsurprisingly, unanswered. The comic doesn’t so much provoke your thoughts as much as it demands them. Held up against some of its more digestible genre contemporaries-thought-provoking gems like Black Science or Descender - Roche Limit is… Well, it’s kind of weird. Featuring art by Kyle Charles, Monadic is a stellar-noir saga of aliens and existential doom, but so often it’s hard to tell if it’s simply science fiction slathered in metaphysics or a philosophical allegory with spaceships. As Roche Limit: Monadic #1 kicks off the final chapter of the contemplative odyssey that includes the Roche Limit opening series and sequel Roche Limit: Clandestiny, writer Michael Moreci readily admits that his “brain-candy sci-fi” comic isn’t exactly typical.
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