Arcadia

Final issue! In Arcadia, Lee Garner gives someone a “factory reset,” while people at Arcadia Base Station One begin falling ill in the face of a new viral onslaught.

In Arcadia, Lee Garner gives someone a “factory reset,” while people at Arcadia Base Station One begin falling ill in the face of a new viral onslaught.

Just because a pandemic has all but wiped out humanity, mankind’s time isn’t up yet — though perhaps not up, so to speak, but uploaded, as technology has come to allow the consciousness of seven billions souls to be transferred to an enormous virtual world in Alex Paknadel and Eric Scott Pfeiffer’s “Arcadia” #1. It’s a world that’s far bigger on the inside than the several large rooms that house all the servers that contain it, the maintenance of which falls to the handful of survivors in the plague-ravaged real world. Despite this apocalyptic planet’s dissimilarity to both the world that preceded it and the artificial one it now houses, Paknadel shows that the flaws of politics and society are immune to this virus and thrive just fine in these disparate environments. Comparisons to “The Matrix” are beyond obvious but, aside from the idea of lives being transferred to a digital landscape, there are really none to be made. Humanity is fully aware of its new home, one that they themse