#d4ve

D4VE: IDW Classic Collections TP (2026)

D4VE #2 (2015)

BW's "Yesterday's" Comic D4VE #1

“No, I’ve never been a rapper. Why do ask?”

D4VE #1

Monkeybrain Comics (2013)

Note that this is no longer available on comiXology through Monkeybrain as the company disbanded. I only have it because I had gotten it at the time. IDW picked it up but I don’t know if they included the backstory of the comic’s creation in their version.

WRITER/LETTERER: Ryan Ferrier

ARTIST: Valentin Ramon

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By Ryan Ferrier & Valentin Ramon

These issues make up volume 3 of an over-arching D4ve series - that I haven’t really gone searching for. Met the writer/creator once. Great guy! Totally sold me on these comics, which is why I picked them up.

During the middle of my graduate school career. Which is why I put them down. That was fortunately just over two years ago, so this might mean I’m catching up on my comics. 30 a week for the next two years should get me there, right?

Whatever the comics/week ratio is, I finally read D4veocracy. D4ve, our presumable hero, is a robot. Everyone is a robot. The 34rth is a super-computer-robot. Everyone talks like a meme. They obliterated all humans on a molecular level. There are a few trees, but are those even real?

The president of 34rth starts the scene assassinated, and D4ve, our hallucinating president, announces his candidacy as, what I presume is the villain is born. This villain? A living version of the internet named S4m. The internet was downloaded as his “cognizance,” and his memes are dank.

S4m and D4ve have a final showdown to save the world from the Internet, Google, and fascism. S4m - Uncle Sam? - is a blatant foil for Donald Trump. Make 4meric4 great again, his people shout! It’s obvious what this is for, but D4ve gives the penultimate sacrifice for the 34rth he believes in. It’s an epic showdown of murder, anarchy, and futuristic meme graffiti.