History ComicBook / FarSector

''Far Sector'' is a twelve issue mini-series from ComicBook/YoungAnimal, written by Creator/NKJemisin, with art by Jamal Campbell.

* EmpathyDollShot: The cover to the fourth issue shows Jo noticing an abandoned stuff toy left on a ground covered with {{Chalk Outline}}s.

* CallAHumanAMeatbag: The @At refer to organic beings as "meat salads".

* BrooklynRage: At a point when her ring is dangerously low, she notes she can make up for it as an ex-cop, an ex-soldier, and being born and raised in Brooklyn.

* VocalMinority: InUniverse. [=CanHaz=] tells Jo that when the Emotion Exploit was first introduced, it was opposed by a majority of the population. However, the minority who supported it were in control of the government at the time, so it was made mandatory and became norm after a while.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: In issue #8, Jo compares earth memes to gold (since @Ats can consume them for "sustenance"), wondering why they are so sought-after when any other meme would do. [=CanHaz=], her assistant, briefly wonders about the comparison since gold is virtually useless.
** Strangely enough, an AI like [=CanHaz=] would most likely be able to understand that gold has value, although not for the same reason humans consider it valuable. It's an excellent conductor of electricity, after all.

** The keh-Topli are carnivorous plants, and crave to eat other sentient beings, likening the lack of anything within their hollow Venus flytrap-like chest-stomachs to a coldness or hollow sensation. Of the three, they tend to be the most reserved, but can also create incredible music and art.

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Averrup is pretty up front with how he'd like to eat Jo but won't because he knows Jo wouldn't want to be eaten. His honesty contrasts him with his more duplicitous colleagues Blaze-of-Glory and Marth [[spoiler: which is why his later death hits Jo so hard]].

** [[spoiler:Blaze-of-Glory has been secretly planning a [[FalseFlagOperation fake attack from the Cloud Kratocracy, the Trilogy's ancient enemies,]] in order to manipulate herself into complete control of the City Enduring so she doesn't have to deal with the slower-thinking "meat salads" countermanding her. The murder kicking off the plot was because someone got too close to discovering her schemes.]]

* ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The City Enduring has 20 ''billion'' citizens, nearly three times the population of Earth, and it is all governed by three people, who could never hope to represent the interests of that many people. [[spoiler:This is completely intentional, as the supposedly elected leaders represent the interests of a tiny minority rather than the whole]].

Sojourner "Jo" Mullein is the newest ComicBook/GreenLantern from Earth, but she wasn't assigned to Earth. Instead, she was given a special ring and a special mission: her sector would be the ''farthest'' sector out, specifically in the City Enduring, an alien city of over twenty billion beings. A city made up of three races that have successfully repressed their emotions so that nobody has been murdered in the city...until now.

* {{Afrofuturism}}: It certainly plays around with it, as Jo herself is black , while one of the Trilogy, the Nah, appear to be black.

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: Clearly what the City Enduring is trying to be and has been for a while...but now a murder has happened and more will follow.

* DysonSphere: Enduring is one, although only some of the pentagonal "panels" are fully covered and inhabitable. It apprently took the entire resources of two whole planets (and likely every other celestial body in the system).

* FantasticSlur: "meat salad," a derogatory term for a biological being (from the non-biological @Ats).

* GrandTheftMe: The @At are capable of "hacking" into the brains of organic lifeforms. [[spoiler: This is how Averrup is killed and ultimately revealed what happened to cause the murder that started the story]]

* AmicableExes: Jo and her roommate, Siz, dated for a short while after Jo came to the city. It didn't work out, but they're still close.

* BaldWoman: The woman who recruits Jo as a Green Lantern. Unsurprisingly, considering she's a Guardian.

** [[spoiler:@BlazeofGlory has been secretly planning a [[FalseFlagOperation fake attack from the Cloud Kratocracy, the Trilogy's ancient enemies,]] in order to manipulate herself into complete control of the City Enduring so she doesn't have to deal with the slower-thinking "meat salads" countermanding her. The murder kicking off the plot was because someone got too close to discovering her schemes.]]

* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler: Marth has been engineering an uprising against his own government to overthrow the use of Emotional Exploit and reintroduce emotions back to the City Enduring. His so-far-unseen sister-- stated by Marth to be more militant and directly violent than he, seems to also be involved.]]

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Averrup is pretty up front with how he's like to eat Jo but won't because he knows Jo wouldn't want to be eaten. His honesty contrasts him with his more duplicitous colleagues Blaze-of-Glory and Marth [[spoiler: which is why his later death hits Jo so hard]].

* ScifiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The City Enduring has 20 ''billon'' citizens, nearly three times the population of Earth, and it is all governed by three people, who could never hope to represent the interests of that many people. [[spoiler:This is completely intentional, as the supposedly elected leaders represent the interests of a tiny minority rather than the whole]].

* BiTheWay: Jo had sexual relations with Siz, a female Nah, prior to the story and later [[spoiler: has a one night stand with the male Marth]].

* DarkSecret: [[Jo witnessed her partner on the police force brutalize a suspect and did nothing in the moment. Much of her drive in the story is based in atoning for this inaction.]]

* ArtificialIntelligence: The @At are basically sentient social media accounts that feed off memes for nourishment.