Come Into Me #1 Review

Writers: Zac Thompson & Lonnie Nadler / Artist: Piotr Kowalski / Black Mask Studio I wasn’t exactly prepared to walk into a cross between eXistenZ and the “Black Museum” episode of Black Mirror but that’s what I got. Come Into Me is a mad science nightmare that’s both disturbing yet so fascinating that you can’t look away. Dark sci-fi is apparently my mood because I can’t help but be intrigued. Come Into Me presents a world where technological genius Sabastion Quinn creates a technology called Inbeing. It allows one person’s consciousness to coexist with another’s mind, basically existing as a voice in someone’s head. They share memories, thoughts, and feelings. After an hour, both participants undergo the procedure again and the person visiting your headspace is put back into their own body. Of course, there are a few kinks to work out and not everything goes smoothly.

The problems are in the forefront of the book. Quinn’s experiment is costly and his troubled progress with perfecting the technology is killing the interest of his investors. So much so that a chance encounter with a woman named Becky, who is interested in his technology, forces Quinn to reconsider the application for his project. Does he continue pursuing a medical angle or should he open his technology to the public as some sort of social experience? This book deserves a second read just to understand how wild the premise is and everything it’s leading to. That’s what I did just to grasp the implication…