ARTIFICIAL

By Maria Llovet. Pub Date 4/14/2026

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PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS:

“Clara, a fashion stylist disillusioned with love, turns to a futuristic dating service offering lifelike android partners. But when her dream lover glitches into a possessive stalker, she finds herself trapped in a game of desire, control, and survival.”

REVIEW

Maria Llovet delivers another sexy scifi graphic novel with plenty of spicy scenes and questionable tech-gone-wrong.

Artificial reminded me of  Crave, another work by Llovet, though on a more micro scale. Her graphic novels seem to deal a lot with the dark side of sex and tech and how wrong it can go when you aren’t paying attention to what you are agreeing to or companies put aside ethics and morality in a way that makes consumers unsafe. The art is tasteful and perfectly tells the story and brings the very human experiences forward where they belong. It’s a healthy reminder that no matter what we think tech can do for us, it will never be as fulfilling as what we can do for one another.

Thanks to NetGalley and Image Comics for the advanced ebook copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.