Excerpt from Ho Che Anderson's afterword for THE SOLAR GRID:

Excerpt from Ho Che Anderson's afterword for THE SOLAR GRID: Ganzeer’s The Solar Grid, tells the story of a future we’re going out of our way to create. One of environmental collapse and a rabid technocracy in which humanity is expendable if it means fulfilling the whims and fantasies of an enlightened elite. What upsets me about this reverie of Mars, aliens, and space lilies, is how real and current it all feels, replete with shitty oligarchs and imperialists who always fail upwards, gorge on corporate welfare, and gaslight as they promise a glorious future. What they leave out is that the coming glory will be promised to us, financed by us, but denied us, reserved only for the other masters of the universe and their curated plebes and acolytes. All for them, none for you, the enemy, from whom they must steal to ensure their protection. And what an OGN, visually inventive, filled with audacious design choices, and armed with a confident range of styles, including some Kirby-inspired…