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A review by bhavani
Hollow Fields, Vol. 3 by Madeleine Rosca
4.0
A fun graphic novel set in an interesting world. If I found physical copies, I'd be sure to add them to my collection. There are spoilers in the review below.
While reading Volume 2, I had a few questions and they are as follows.
1) What is Miss Weaver's personal experiment? Is it to somehow transfer their consciousness into the bodies of Hollow Fields' students and ensure their immortality?
Answer: Yes
2) Who is Doctor Bleak and why is he in the form of a mechanical cube?
Answer: This one took me by surprise. Never expected him to be her supposedly dead husband. She's evil for sure. Based on rough calculations, over 80 years, they'd have turned at least 4,160 children into test subjects. But he's such a patronizing jerk in the flashback scenes that a small part of me thought it's justified for him to spend the rest of his life as a sentient, mechanical cube.
3) Why is it always raining around Hollow Fields and does it have anything to do with Miss Weaver's experiment?
Answer: Never got the answer to this one. Maybe it's just the weather in the area around Hollow Fields?
4) How are the engineers still alive using clockwork mechanics after all this time?
Answer: All the engineers, except one, didn't survive using clockwork engines. Theirs were steam engines. But I'm not sure how. Did they replace their organs and circulatory systems with engines and mechanical components? Is that why they couldn't digest food anymore? Why didn't they have sensations? Did they replace their nerves with wiring? But if so, wouldn't they have to replace their brain as well? How is it that they could still rot? I don't have the answer to these questions.
While reading Volume 2, I had a few questions and they are as follows.
1) What is Miss Weaver's personal experiment? Is it to somehow transfer their consciousness into the bodies of Hollow Fields' students and ensure their immortality?
Answer: Yes
2) Who is Doctor Bleak and why is he in the form of a mechanical cube?
Answer: This one took me by surprise. Never expected him to be her supposedly dead husband. She's evil for sure. Based on rough calculations, over 80 years, they'd have turned at least 4,160 children into test subjects. But he's such a patronizing jerk in the flashback scenes that a small part of me thought it's justified for him to spend the rest of his life as a sentient, mechanical cube.
3) Why is it always raining around Hollow Fields and does it have anything to do with Miss Weaver's experiment?
Answer: Never got the answer to this one. Maybe it's just the weather in the area around Hollow Fields?
4) How are the engineers still alive using clockwork mechanics after all this time?
Answer: All the engineers, except one, didn't survive using clockwork engines. Theirs were steam engines. But I'm not sure how. Did they replace their organs and circulatory systems with engines and mechanical components? Is that why they couldn't digest food anymore? Why didn't they have sensations? Did they replace their nerves with wiring? But if so, wouldn't they have to replace their brain as well? How is it that they could still rot? I don't have the answer to these questions.