by Matt Peters Surgeon X: The Path of Most Resistance is a graphic novel that blends dystopian fiction, mystery, and medical drama in a fast-paced story about a global public health crisis. Set in London in 2036, Surgeon X imagines what will happen as the world enters a post-antibiotic era, a time when bacterial infections become increasingly difficult to treat, because bacterial evolution has outpaced pharmaceutical science. In this imagined future, antibiotic-resistant strains have emerged, leaving clinicians all but helpless when treating pneumonia, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, and other infections. In the real world of today, medical experts have predicted that… Read More
From Hell
Thanks to Rajat Srivastava for recommending this. I had read other Moore classics, but not this one. Phew- where to start? this is a big, complex , monster of a work! The main story is based on Stephen Knight’s Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution (Grafton Books 1977) which suggests a conspiracy between the Masons, the royal family and the painter Walter Sickert, to cover up the ill advised, secret marriage of Prince Albert Victor to a working class shop girl by whom he had fathered an illegitimate child. A group of whitechapel prostitutes have discovered the situation and are… Read More