Aeon Flux: The Herodotus File

by Mark Mars, Eric Singer, Peter Chung

Book Overview

Aeon Flux, the scantily-clad, acrobatic super-heroine from MTV's Liquid Television series, has her allegiance questioned in this tale of intrigue and treachery that reveals her secret history.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416516972
• ISBN13: 9781416516972
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: MTV Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.1" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Perfect companion piece to the greatest series ever animated...

Aside from presenting a more detailed view of life in the fueding nation-states Monica/Bregna, and providing additional insight into the complicated relationship between Aeon Flux and Trevor Goodchild, this book will teach you how to write effective inter-office emails and the dire importance of injecting creativity into professional presentations. A better $2.50 you will never spend...

Precious

There is never enough Aeon. Ever. I have the pvc statue, the 3 vhs set and the DVD. I've dressed as her for halloween 2 times and probably will again some day with improvied outfits. This is a must for any Flux fan, lots of cool pictures, it's a case file on her and gives a little insight into the story, but not too much.

Good tie-in to the series, highly enjoyable

I have read the other customer reviews and none of them really say what I think about this book. It is a vision to the Flux world via book instead of Tv. It provides a great deal of useless facts which you would like to know about Aeon. I found it very fun to read actually. It is so unlike a comic book, except for the last few pages, and is just fun to flip through. For instance did you know Aeon has bullet fragments in her left leg and a nipple ring? Hopefully you'll enjoy it has much has I did

Truly appealing to all Flux fans, and maybe others as well.

This book is the perfect thing for all fans of the animated series. Not only does it have a truly entertaining plot, but is also more like a file than a book. I loved it, and the illlustrations are wonderful. The only negative side was when I finished the book and I wanted much much more! If you're a fan, you have to have it! The book gives you some backround info on other episodes that helps a lot to know. Very nice book! Hinks mynx, the old witch winks...

Highly enjoyable for true fans of the animated series.

When an animated series is published on paper, the typical result is a comic book of some kind. The other, less likely possibility is that it will become an all-text book. But what Mark Mars and Eric Singer have done is remarkably unique from both of these options. Instead, the entire "Herodotus File" really is a file, a series of attached and bound documents arranged in chronological order that tell a story in the best way of the "Aeon Flux" animated series created by Peter Chung. Conversations are replaced with transcripts. Monologues become journal entries. All the information the reader would need to have a story is provided, thoughtfully and creatively, and the charachters involved lose nothing, despite being reduced to nothing but letters, still photographs, and memos. It is a unique technique, and I wish that more writers tried it. "Aeon Flux" involves a distopian nation known as "Bregna," populated with mentally stifled citizens, and a bordering territory, "Monica," which has no legal representation in the Breen government. Aeon Flux, a strange, intriguing, and quite deadly woman from Monica is often brought into contact with the equally strange and intriguing Trevor Goodchild, the chairman of Bregna. Aeon could be stereotyped as a secret agent for Monica, or a mercenary, (she has acted as both) but all anyone can truly say about her is that she despises control and will always follow her own initiative. Trevor could be equally misunderstood as a power-hungry despot, eager to crush free will and liberty. Instead, he is a radical reformer, one who is dedicated to the peaceful homogenization of the Breen. He craves control, not power, and the control of a single Breen's life is as interesting to him as the command of the masses. "The Herodotus File" attempts to tell the story of how Aeon and Trevor first met, and preserves the moral ambiguity that made the animated series a powerful psychological drama. The plot, also like the animated series, starts out in simplicity, but becomes inordinatly complex in execution. Trevor Goodchild, who has recently risen to power in Bregna, mentions in his log that he has found a piece of propoganda he finds dangerous, a claim that Bregna and Monica were once one nation. A pamphlet of the so-called "Berognican Reunification Movement" comes next in the "Herodotus File," with a sticky note attached by Trevor, saying "Who are these people? I ask not out of curiousity, I want them CRUSHED!" A charachter who was never in the series is introduced, a disturbing man named "Euphemia," who writes all his reports on a jagged, misaligned manual typewriter, signs them with a lipstick-kiss, and remains completely off-camera, leaving his image to be determined by the reader's imagination, where it will certainly be more fearsome. He undertakes the task of organizing the destruction of the BRM at the behest of Trevor, and suggests several Monican agents to do the dirty work. Trevor, against his better