That’s why Coda is focused on trying to push the boundaries of not only what documents can do, but what documents are.Īfter being developed largely in secret for almost three years, Coda is now full of forward-thinking features in this hyper competitive market. In his mind documents have barely evolved since we first started using them in the 1970s. Shishir Mehrotra, co-founder and CEO of Coda believes that documents run the world.įor more than 20 years, Mehrotra has been thinking about documents: why we attempt to solve so many problems using them, what he believes makes them ill-equipped to handle many of the tasks we use them for, and why he thinks so little progress has been made in updating the document for the workplace of today.īefore Coda, Mehrotra spent many years at Microsoft and Google, where he worked on products such as Office and YouTube. Notion was created as an all-in-one productivity tool that could replace everything people used except email and Slack. Yet in spite of their dominance, new document apps keep launching with their own unique twists.Īirtable is a reinvention of spreadsheets so people can make applications without writing a single line of code. Spurrier has created a world, situation, and characters that promise a bright future.Behemoths Google and Microsoft dominate the document category, with G Suite and Office each used by millions of people, every day. Readers of all shapes and sizes will find something in this world that they can relate to and be entertained by. It all works great and goes hand in hand with the tone of the story.Ĭoda #1 is a modern fairy tale for our world as it is today. He provides quiet moments with a soft lettering style that almost fades away under other speaking voices and loud moments with powerful violent letters. It all comes together as a feast for the eyes.Ĭolin Bell handles the lettering in this debut issue and does an excellent job. Areas closer to once magical sources still contain a bit of fantastical colors.
The color choices are well made and further the idea of this world by using a palette that feels slightly desaturated and bleeding away. Just as Spurrier has kept the script from getting too dark with humor, Bergara’s style backs that levity up with creature caricatures that will bring a smile to the reader’s face. It’s comedic, sad, and intriguing all at the same time. The state of the world is visually symbolized by a creature that the main character runs into on the first few pages. We meet a once magical creature that is now a mere framework of its once powerful existence. Bergara has done an excellent job at designing a world that was once magical but is now decaying like a tooth from too much sugar. Matias Bergara and Michael Doig bring this world to life with a style that is pitch perfect for this story. It could be a depressing story, but the humor that Spurrier has deftly injected into the script keeps it light-hearted and fun. The world they live in may be run down and decaying, but it piques the reader’s interest to want to explore it and learn more. However, these inhabitants are immediately likable and enjoyable. Though many are destitute it seems the rest are mutated versions of what was once considered noble. It allows us to take a step back in order to re-examine and even laugh at fantasy tropes. We are introduced to a world that is unlike any other and seemingly filled with characters that have been deeply affected by the upheaval they endured. The first moments in this new world leave the reader with questions about what is really going on but as the story progresses they are quickly rewarded. Simon Spurrier has created a fantastic ORIGINAL post-apocalyptic world for readers to discover but even more interesting are the fascinating characters that the reader will immediately want to learn more about. It’s a genre bending tale that takes a look at a disenfranchised world and the people that desperately try to survive afterwards. Once upon a time there was a fantasy realm of magical creatures, elves, and questing knights. As happens in all stories of this genre the good kingdoms fought against evil forces many times and were triumphant each time: until they weren’t.Ĭoda takes place after the forces of evil have triumphed causing a magical apocalypse that wipes out the magical races and power itself. Art by Matias Bergara, Michael Doig, and Colin Bell
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