The Indifference Engine is a four part miniseries, written by Cy Dethan, drawn by Rob Carey, coloured by Melanie Cook and lettered by Nic Wilkinson with cover art by Paul Cartwright, the first issue was published electronically by Markosia on the Playstation Network Comic Store in December 2010, with a print edition to follow in 2011.
Responding to a strangely specific job advertisement, a distinctly ordinary twenty-something suburban slacker finds himself in the middle of an inter-dimensional task force staffed entirely by superhuman alternate versions of himself. Struggling to fit in, he uncovers a conspiracy that strikes at the very heart of the organisation – a conspiracy that only he can stop.
Alan Blake, by any credible standard, is a waste of good skin - a directionless and ambitionless slacker whose single most notable characteristic is that he makes other people feel good about themselves in comparison to him.
Alan considers himself a good listener, but it’s more complex than that. It’s almost like he absorbs other people’s problems and somehow unburdens them. If he weren’t such a loser, that one character trait alone could have made him immensely popular. Still, at least he serves a purpose of sorts. Whatever your own personal flaws or failings, hey – it could be worse. You could be Alan Blake.
External links[]
- The Indifference Engine #1 at Playstation Comics
- Preview of The Indifference Engine at MyEbook
- "Think Indifferent", interview with Rob Carey at The Red Eye
- Preview at Down the Tubes