''BrainBanx'' is a six-issue

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published in

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as part of the short-lived

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. Written by

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and featuring artwork by

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, the title narrates the tale of the red-headed Anna Elysian, a

telepathic Telepathy () is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic ...

intelligence operative working undercover in a distant future world.

Plot synopsis

Anna is a 'Mount' which means that she is an agent who shares her body and her

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with one of the corporeal occupants ('volunteers') of the ''BrainBanx'' (or 'pool'), a series of sophisticated life-support tanks administered by the galactic government. In Anna's case, she is joined with Ellis Shepherd (or 'Shep') a former employee of the ''Organic Ranching Corporation (ORC)'' who has fled his position upon discovering evidence of certain prohibited cross-breeding experiments that ORC had been performing with sheep. As the series unfolds, Anna uncovers illegal plans to grow human brains in the bodies of animals and must also reconcile her emerging feelings for Shep with whom she shares her mind and body.

Themes

In her foreword to the series, Elaine Lee described her wish to focus on human relationships in the title:

References

* 1997 comics debuts Biopunk comics Science fiction comics Fiction books about telepathy {{DC-Comics-stub