Aphrodite IX
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Aphrodite IX | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Image Comics |
First appearance | Aphrodite IX #0 (April 2000) |
Created by | David Wohl (writer) David Finch |
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Abilities |
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Aphrodite IX is a
Publication history
The first series of Aphrodite IX was written by
A trade paperback, Aphrodite IX: Time Out of Mind, collecting all extant issues, was released in 2003.
Aphrodite IV
An android similar to Aphrodite IX, identified as Aphrodite IV, appeared in a page from Top Cow's ongoing series
An Aphrodite is featured on the cover
Vol. 2
Top Cow released a free preview issue for Vol. 2 of Aphrodite IX on May 4, 2013, with the first new issue released in June and the 11th and final issue released in July 2014.[1] The preview is set in the distant future of the previous issues in the series. The artist of the series is Stjepan Šejić.
Plot
Aphrodite IX is a female android who has amnesia shortly after being sent on undercover missions. This leads to ongoing confusion about what she does and for whom. Although she becomes aware that she is intended as an assassin, she finds the idea increasingly distasteful and experiences dreams and desires like a human. This begins to undermine her morale but not her efficiency, for her conditioning takes over as her masters or survival circumstances require. When she seeks out clues to her past and true identity, she stumbles onto a conspiracy involving a secret society of cyborgs attempting to undermine the legitimate government.[citation needed]
Main characters
Aphrodite IX – Aphrodite IX is a self-aware gynoid designed to carry out undercover missions of infiltration and assassination. Although she has been trained to kill, Aphrodite IX retains no memory of her actions; her brain is designed to experience an episode of
In other media
An anime of Aphrodite IX was being developed, but aside from a trailer released at the Top Cow booth during the 2005 San Diego Comic-Con, nothing ever came of the project.[2]
References
- ^ "Aphrodite IX #11".
- CBR.com. Archived from the originalon March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2020.