Motter's eponymous and most famous creation continues the same story he's always ensconced in to lead this issue, trying once again to disentangle his beloved city from the strange architectural conspiracies that have been plaguing it.
As back-up, Menlo Park, the robotic P.I. from one of Motter's other playgrounds, introduced in Electropolis, concludes his latest mystery, and it's clever, a zombie-themed story that turns out to be more clever than that (any good zombie story isn't really about zombies at all, and the best ones don't even feature real zombies at all).
What Motter adds, almost as an afterthought, is a link between Park and Mister X's adventures. At first they seem somewhat incompatible, however similar in structure, given that Menlo Park is distinctly an element of Dean Motter's prescious retrofuturism whereas Mister X is in many ways merely retro. How the twain shall meet? Motter doesn't really sweat it. It's the girl observing Park's adventure that makes the link. She even thinks she discovers Mister X's secret identity.
Would that be a first? I've been trying to catch up with Motter's work for a decade. I've still got more to read (and therefore I'm happy when I can catch new material first-run), so maybe it isn't a new wrinkle at all. But it certainly helps keep things interesting. Besides (without spoiling things in case you want to read Razed for yourself) Motter's idea about how to make your own zombies...
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