Aama Vol. 2: The Invisible Throng (AAMA)

by Ellen Lupton

Verloc Nim has travelled with his brother Conrad to the desert planet Ona(ji) to recover the mysterious biorobotic experiment aama.

The planet is home to an abandoned group of scientists, who have been left to their fate. In the second volume of Frederik Peeters’ science fiction series, Conrad sets up an expedition to find the professor who has taken aama to another part of the planet. With the assistance of their robot-ape Churchill, Verloc and Conrad embark on a journey that brings spectacular discoveries and unsettling encounters…

Aama won the 'Best Series' prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2013.

• ISBN13: 9781906838836
• Publish Date: 6 November 2014
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: SelfMadeHero
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 88
• Language: English
• URL: http://abramsandchronicle.co.uk/books/graphic-novels/9781906838836-aama-vol-2

Reviews

[leahrosereads]

This was a pretty decent follow-up to the first book in this series. Where the first book was pretty much world building and info dumping, THE INVISIBLE THRONG really expanded on Peeters world.

We see Verloc and the others begin to explore Ona(ji) and all its desolation. Until it’s not. Until its vibrant and alive with extremely strange plant life and creatures. This planet can send it’s thanks to AAMA, which we also find out a lot more about.

It’s a substance that can rewrite itself into creatures/plants/technology, and it’s rewritten itself so incredibly, that the researchers are terrified, and they should be.


Peeters has done another decent job with the writing and driving this story forward. I’m definitely intrigued where aama is going to go next.

And then there is his art. The world Peeters has visually created, namely the bizzaro new planet life on Ona(ji) is strange, stunning, and mindblowing. Even if the writing wasn’t as good as it is, I’d come back to this story for the art alone.