The layouts of the rectangular panels are fairly conventional, but there’s a striking contrast between the dull red, blues, and browns of Abel’s impoverished and desolate Mars and the vivid colors of the hover derby players’ uniforms. Abel ( La Perdida) designs a complex world at the intersection of class (and planetary) exploitation, spectator sports, and xenophobia without allowing the setting to become overly complicated. Mars teenager Patricia “Trish Trash” Nupindju is obsessed with the sport of hover derby forsaking her responsibilities at home and at school, Trish indentures herself to the local team as an intern, which turns out to be thankless and demanding work.
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