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Global Frequency

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Warren Ellis & various

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Page 45 Review by Stephen

"This is Aleph. You're on the Global Frequency."

All twelve chapters in one complete edition.

The Global Frequency is a covert organisation of 1001 operatives specialising in a diverse range of esoteric disciplines from nuclear fission and languages to tracking, elimination and le parkour running. They're there to save the world from international terrorists, mad science and sonic angels. Different threats require different tactics – different combinations of skills – and when Miranda Zero makes her selection, you'd better pray that she gets it right, because when the phone calls you probably have less time to avert disaster than you do to get your pants back on, for each of the twelve chapters here is like a self-contained episode of the best HBO series condensed into ten blistering minutes.

"Captain Richard Quinn, USAF, is running around in there with five hundred million dollars' worth of enhancement technology inside him. He has gone stark staring mad and needs to be taken down. Our job: to take him down, and rescue whoever else is trapped inside Project Big Wheel with him."
"How is this our job?"
"Because the prevailing attitude in the corridors of power is that Project Big Wheel should be sterilised with a large nuclear weapon."
"Wind's blowing towards California...."


"What defines the human race?"
"Right now? The ability to piss me off."

Quality artists from Gene Ha to Chris Sprouse signed up for this series and Jon J. Muth's sonic angel is worth the price of admission alone. Plus however frantic the preceding pages, nothing will prepare you for the series’ climax.

"You are Miranda Zero, head of Global Frequency, a semi-covert rescue organisation of one thousand and one agents. I have one hour to extract from you the codes to enter your computer. With those codes, we can obtain all your information, and the names of your agents. And kill them."

"This is Aleph in Global Frequency Central to all Los Angeles area units. Miranda Zero has been unreachable for exactly ten minutes. Emergency recovery procedure begins now."

It was five years ago that Miranda Zero recruited a communications prodigy, a superprocessor she called Aleph, to act as the central hub of The Global Frequency. Over those years – and during the first ten chapters of this 1,000-mile-an-hour, supercompressed action extravaganza – Aleph has remained calm and collected as she directs those required to wherever they are needed, usually at the heart of some hideous scientific nightmare or in the middle of a terrorist operation. But now Central Operations has itself become the target, and Aleph is all alone down there…
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